Mondays usually suck, but this one is pretty great? Why? Because the first trailer for Venom: Let There Be Carnage was released. Directed by Andy Serkis, the sequel sees Tom Hardy return as Eddie Brock/Venom. And debuts Woody Harrelson as Cletus Kasady/Carnage. Check out the enticing trailer below:
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Eddie and Venom: The Odd Couple
In an exclusive with Serkis, IGN dove into what fans can expect from the second Venom film – as well as what makes this movie different from the first. First, Serkis talked about the unusual relationship Eddie and Venom have:
“They are now what is, in effect, the Odd Couple stage of their relationship. They’ve been together for… a year and a half, say, since the last story. And they’re figuring out how to be with each other. And it’s like living with this maniac toddler. Eddie is really struggling. He can’t concentrate. He’s trying to get on with work. And he, of course, only thinks about himself anyway, on the whole.”
Cletus Kasady aka Carnage
Serkis then spoke about Cletus’ motivation and why he seems to be so drawn to Eddie:
“They both had strange upbringings with strange relationships with their parents and their families. And there’s an inherent loneliness that they both recognize in each other. Cletus actually reaches out and will only speak to Eddie Brock. That’s at the beginning of the story, we learned that he’s the only one he’ll speak to. And the cops, therefore, want Eddie to go in and investigate and try and discover where some of the bodies, some of the many bodies of Cletus’s victims are.”
In regards to Cletus, Serkis continued:
“Cletus has an extraordinary child-like but vivid imagination and mind, and he expresses himself by drawing. His cell is completely covered with these really bizarre markings and expressions. It’s like his anger and frustration and his sadness and his desperation and his loneliness.”
“He can turn to mist. He can turn to all manner of tendrils. He can take different forms. He can weaponize, he can do all of these different things,” Serkis says. “With all symbiotes, they reflect the person who is their host. So the darkness of Carnage, the playfulness, the wit, the strangeness. Cletus has a real intelligence and… a real sense of humor, and we wanted to reflect that in the symbiote that is linked to him.”
Shriek
Also – what can we expect of Naomie Harris’s character Francis Barriston aka Shriek?
“She’s a damaged soul and she really has suffered in her childhood, but there is a real vulnerability about her, and she’s in a lot of pain… She’s been living in isolation for years, years and years,” Serkis says. “With all of these characters, what’s so beautifully drawn about them is that they’re multi-faceted, they’re totally truthful and believable, and yet … She’s dangerous too and I think she has her own sense of fairness and being just, and I think when that line is crossed, then you see a very, very dangerous, dark side to her, and that’s what we wanted to do with the character.”
What We Can Expect From the Fights?
Serkis takes up the director’s mantle from Ruben Fleischer, who directed 2018’s Venom. While it looks like the film will feel like it exists within the same world as the first one, Serkis clearly is bringing his own vision to the movie. Including mapping out how the characters move in the film:
“Venom is… pretty straightforward in a way. He’s like a quarterback. He’s very grounded, very physically sort of heavy, and like a quarterback where brute force is very much his thing. Whereas Carnage, in the same way that Cletus is manipulative psychologically and physically, he can take your energy and completely shift it for you. So we wanted the whole movement style to be very idiosyncratic and off-kilter and strange, and you just can’t pin him down. It would be like trying to have a fight with an octopus basically.”
Serkis continued:
“Also, what we were able to do, which was amazing, was to go and work with dancers and actors on a performance capture stage, and then see things come to life and then use little bits and practice, just trying stuff out. It was a really exciting period of building the movie actually was Carnage movement tests. That was a really exciting part of it.”
Who else is excited for Venom: Let There Be Carnage? For the full exclusive, check out IGN.
Source: IGN
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