'Venom' Leaked Footage Reveals First Look at Tom Hardy as Symbiote
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Hardy's Eddie Brock is seen in full Venom mode as he attacks a bad guy in the footage, which is screened at CinemaCon.

AceShowbiz - The first look at Tom Hardy as his on-screen alter ego in "Venom (2018)" is here! Making its way out online, the footage was first debuted at CinemaCon on Monday, April 23. While the video has not been officially released online, someone has shared the bootleg version on Twitter, much to the pleasure of those who couldn't attend the CinemaCon.

The short clip shows Hardy's Eddie Brock transforming into the symbiote as he attacks a bad guy. "We are Venom," he says with his menacing voice, while grabbing the man by the neck.

Hardy's character referring to himself as "we" means that the movie will retain a familiar idea from the comics. In the comics, the symbiote has its own consciousness, complete with its own and desires.

The previous on-screen iteration of Venom in Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man 3", meanwhile, is treated as something that possesses a generally dark psychic energy that influences Peter Parker's decisions rather than making its own.

Centering on the Spider-Man villain, "Venom" "is primarily based on the 'Lethal Protector' and 'The Planet of the Symbiotes' books," director Ruben Fleischer told the crowd in a video statement to audience at Brazil Comic-Con last December.

"Venom: Lethal Protector" was a limited series in 1993 written by David Michelinie in collaboration with artist Mark Bagley. Brock moves from New York to San Francisco where he's reinvented as more of antihero instead of a Spider-Man villain. "Planet of the Symbiotes", meanwhile, was a 1995 story focusing on Brock fighting an army of invading symbiotes -- a symbiote being the living alien substance that takes over Brock's body and transforms him into the vicious wall-crawler.

The script was written by Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner. Michelle Williams stars as Ann Weying, Eddie Brock's ex-wife, Riz Ahmed plays a lab owner named Carlton Drake who is said to be a villain, with Jenny Slate, Woody Harrelson, Reid Scott and Scott Haze taking other roles. Villain Carnage is also rumored to appear in the movie, but it has not been confirmed.

The movie is slated to arrive on October 5 in the U.S.

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