Following on from a slightly confusing set video put out for the Brazilian Comic-Con, the promotional machine for Venom, which stars Tom Hardy, is really beginning to whirr. The first poster is now online, heralding the imminent arrival of the teaser trailer.
Venom will bring he Spider-Man antagonist to the fore, albeit more in the form of a conflicted antihero than a threat. Hardy plays Eddie Brock, the photojournalist who becomes merged with the alien symbiote. Quite what he'll actually be up to in the movie has yet to be officially announced, (though it apparently channels the Lethal Protector and Planet Of The Symbiotes runs of the comic) and the trailer should offer up some actual answers.
Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Jenny Slate and Woody Harrelson fill out the rest of the main cast, with Ruben Fleischer in the director's chair. Venom will slither on to our screens on 5 October this year.
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