Tom Hardy’s third outing as Eddie Brock in the Venom franchise looks to be aiming for an October 2024 release. Although Venom 3 is yet to get production going, and the writer’s strike still causing problems for many movies, it looks like fans will have over a year at least until they see where Hardy’s anti-hero goes after his brief trip to the MCU in the post-credits scene of Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Despite being hugely popular with audiences, the Venom franchise has not captured the attention of critics, but it is by far the most successful Spider-Man related offering from Sony that doesn’t feature the web-slinger himself. There has been a lot of speculation over where Sony’s Spider-Man villain universe is heading, with the bomb that was Morbius seeming to connect with the MCU, but others like the upcoming Kraven the Hunter and Madam Web doing their own thing, and it is still hard to work out exactly where Venom fits into all of this right now.
While there has been very little information about what the third Venom movie is going to look like, we do know that it will be directed by Venom writer Kelly Marcel, with Andy Serkis declining a directorial return after Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Additionally Juno Temple recently was announced to have joined the movie’s cast, and it was through the actress that the new release date window was revealed. While speaking with Variety, Temple said that filming would be starting “very, very soon” and she was “thrilled to be part of it.”
Will Venom Be Delayed Due To The Writer’s Strike?
Back in February, Tom Hardy revealed that he was working on pre-production for his third time out as the Marvel symbiote. After the original Venom took over $800 million at the box office – more than the likes of the MCU’s Thor: Love and Thunder and almost double this year’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania managed – 2021’s sequel was stunted by the Covid pandemic, but still pulled in an impressive for the time $507 million, the seventh highest gross of the year.
While this set up Venom 3 to speed into production, things have been moving slowly, and that has only been made worse with the arrival of the WGA writer’s strike, which reportedly has impacted on the start of production for the threequel. How much of a problem this will cause to the film achieving its current October 2024 target release is yet to be seen, but after the disappointment of Morbius, the last thing Sony will want to do is kill off their best chance of their “Spider-Man without Spider-Man” movies gaining strong footing at the box office in coming years. If it is the choice between pushing back the release date, or rushing out the movie, Sony have been happy in the past to make fans wait for movies, despite the uproar that can cause.