Tom Hardy Transforms into Venom in Awesome Fan Art
David Gelmini
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We’ve still got a long way to go until Sony’s Venom movie hits screens on October 5, 2018, but thanks to a beautiful new piece of fan art from the Twitter account BossLogic, we now have some idea of how Tom Hardy might look as the human host for the Klyntar Symbiote.
Thanks in no small part to the success of Fox’s Deadpool, Venom will carry an R rating.
If you’re wondering how Sony came to be in possession of the Venom character despite Marvel being owned by Disney, it’s because Sony purchased the film rights to Spider-Man and related characters in 1999, before Disney purchased Marvel in 2009. Under the current agreement between the two studios, Sony will be allowed to set their Spider-Man movies within the Marvel Cinematic Universe on the condition that they also allow Disney to use the Web-Slinger as a supporting character in their own films. From what we’ve come to understand so far, the Venom movie will be the first installment in a new shared universe featuring Marvel characters already owned by Sony and will not be connected to the MCU. The recently announced Silver Sable and Black Cat film will form part of this new series.
On a more sour note, it’s possible that Sony’s plans for their own Marvel universe could be met with pushback from Disney. As you are probably already aware, Disney are none too pleased that the film rights to the X-Men and the Fantastic Four are both owned by 20th Century Fox. So much so that the House of Mouse has actively been trying to damage the reputation of both superteams. There are too many examples for me to list here, but a few include editing X-Men and Fantastic Four characters out of posters and T-shirts featuring famous Marvel covers (see examples here and here), cancelling the long running Fantastic Four comic series shortly after Fox announced that they were making a new Fantastic Four movie, and minimizing X-Men and Fantastic Four merchandise and not featuring the characters in recent cartoon series and games. It’s also pretty clear that the X-Men vs. Avengers comic was clearly intended to make the mutant superteam seem weak and insignificant compared to the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. If you want to learn more, you can read some decent articles on the subject here, here, and here.
I could be speculating, but I’m gonna assume that Disney won’t use similar tactics against characters from the Venom movie in fear of upsetting their Spider-Man deal with Sony. In any case, Venom will be directed by Ruben Fleischer.
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