- First trailer for Venom: The Last Dance has dropped
- Eddie and Venom go on the run from the army and creatures from Venom’s home planet
- Hints that there might not be a happy ending to this film
Is the end nigh for Eddie Brock and Venom? Judging from the first trailer to be released for Venom: The Last Dance – that could be the case.
The three-minute trailer for the much-anticipated film has dropped and raises many more questions than it answers.
Hunted
It starts with Venom intoning darkly to his host, Eddie Brock – again played by Tom Hardy – that “my home… has found us.”
The trailer picks up from where we last saw Eddie, which was in the post-credit scene of 2021’s Spider-Man No Way Home, where Eddie was hiding out in a remote bar, but then gets dematerialised into another dimension.
Of course, being a Venom film, there is the usual smattering of uber-violence as various baddies are beaten and eaten.
But we also see an army laboratory, which has found a trace of the symbiote – and now wants to eradicate it – and with it Eddie and Venom. The duo go on the run, trying to evade the might of the army.
But then creatures from Venom’s home planet appear and they are even more terrifying – and toothsome – than our antihero.
Til death do they part?
Interspersed with this is the legend ‘til death do they part’ – a riff on a traditional part of marriage vows – but also hints at a more final conclusion to the film.
“We may not make it out of this alive, buddy,” says Eddie, worriedly, which only adds to the sense.
We also catch a glimpse of Patrick Mulligan (Stephen Graham), who has featured previously in the series and is imbued with a symbiote named Toxin.
We also get to see what a horse looks like when it has been bonded with the symbiote – and its every bit as wild as you think.
The teaser raises more questions than it answers – including how, of if, it ties in with the MCU and its current multiverse saga. Presumably all these questions, and whether they will make it out alive, will be answered when the film hits theaters on October 25.
