Venom: Let There Be Carnage: new trailer arrives ahead of September release

Last Updated on August 10, 2021

A new trailer has arrived online for director Andy Serkis's Marvel Comics adaptation Venom: Let There Be Carnage, the sequel to the 2018 hit Venom (watch it HERE), and you can check it out in the embed above! In this trailer, the goofball humor of the previous film is blended with scenes involving Woody Harrelson playing a symbiote-enhanced (natural born) killer and quick teases of Naomie Harris as a character appropriately called Shriek. Venom: Let There Be Carnage is scheduled to reach theatres on September 24th.

Serkis directed the film from a screenplay by Kelly Marcel, who crafted the story with star Tom Hardy. Marcel has said that Hardy earned the "story by" credit by being "100% committed" to the project: 

He doesn’t get a pen and write. We spent months breaking the story together on FaceTime, riffing on ideas, seeing what worked, seeing what didn’t. Then I took everything we spoke about and holed up somewhere for three months quietly, knocking out a script."

Hardy reprises the role of journalist Eddie Brock, who becomes the anti-hero Venom when coated with an alien symbiote. He and Harris are joined in the cast by Harrelson as serial killer Cletus Kasady, who becomes the symbiote-coated villain Carnage; Michelle Williams as Eddie's ex Anne; Reid Scott as Doctor Dan Lewis, Anne's boyfriend; Sean Delaney in an unspecified role; and Stephen Graham as Detective Patrick Mulligan. In the comics, Mulligan also gets coated with a symbiote and becomes a character called Toxin, "more powerful than Venom and Carnage combined".

I wasn't a big fan of the first Venom and don't have high hopes that I'm going to find Venom: Let There Be Carnage to be significantly better than its predecessor, but I will definitely be checking it out anyway because I grew up reading about these characters.