A Venom movie without Spider-Man seems like a dicy gamble, but the footage Sony debuted exclusively during Comic-Con 2018 had fans excited nonetheless. It didn`t hurt that they teased an eventual crossover with Tom Holland`s Spider-Man, although it didn`t sound like something that will happen any time soon.In the clip, Tom Hardy`s character Eddie Brock struggles to get the Symbiote under his control. He tries meditating, but there`s footage of more violent scenes interspersed as he attempts to clear his mind. `You cannot change the past. But in the present moment, you are in total control,` a voiceover says, but clearly that`s not the case.The footage showed Riz Ahmed`s character, Dr. Carlton Drake, demonstrating the Symbiote`s effect on an unwilling patient/victim. He`s intent on forcing humanity to evolve. In another scene, Eddie races down the street on a motorcycle while the Symbiote erupts from his body, attacking nearby cars. Eddie speaks to the Symbiote, which can project words directly into Eddie`s mind, or appear as a CG Venom head protruding from Eddie`s body. In another scene, the two appear to have melded and reached some sort of balance; the Symbiote face peels partially away from Eddie`s, and the two proclaim together, `We are Venom.`During the Sony movies panel in San Diego Comic-Con`s Hall H, Tom Hardy said Venom will stick closely to the storyline in the Lethal Protector comics. `[Eddie] is an anti-hero, so he`ll figure on a goal, and he`ll do whatever he has to do to get to that goal,` he said. Earlier at SDCC, Hardy revealed why he took the role.Ahmed said during the panel that Carlton Drake is a `genius billionaire inventor` who is trying to answer the question of `what does the future of humanity look like` with the Earth on the brink of ecological collapse.Another Symbiote appeared in the footage as well, and director Ruben Fleischer explained afterward that as fans suspected, it was Riot--an adversary of Venom`s who is a `stronger and more ...
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