Yep, “Venom” is a thing that’s really happening. If you’ve been hanging around the geekier corners of Twitter you’ve likely seen set photos and videos floating around, but today the first official image from the villain centered movie is here.
Sadly, the image from IGN is of Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, and basically looking like it could’ve been pulled from any of his movies. Also, can we give Eddie Brock a puppy? I don’t think that’s too much to ask. Anyway, Ruben Fleischer (“Zombieland,” “Gangster Squad“) is directing the film, which actually has some pretty great talent in support — Michelle Williams and Riz Ahmed — though it confusingly doesn’t connect to the current Spider-Man universe, probably for boring legal reasons that I don’t want to think about.
At any rate, you can check out the sensibly dressed, bracelet wearing Hardy below, along with part of the Brazil Comic Con Experience panel for the film in December.
“Venom” opens on October 5th.
So, a regular-ass picture of Tom Hardy, then
He looks… regular?