Nobody wanted a Venom/Spider-Man crossover movie more than Marvel actor Tom Hardy.
The actor played Eddie Brock/Venom in the character’s self-titled movie trilogy — Venom (2018), Let There Be Carnage (2021), and The Last Dance (2024) — all of which were set in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe. The movies were by far the most successful of the SSU villain-centric blockbusters, collectively grossing over $1.8 billion at the box office.
With his Venom trilogy in the rearview mirror, Hardy reflected on his time playing in the Marvel sandbox during a recent interview with Esquire. “I loved playing Eddie in Venom. Juggling chainsaws… Put me on a unicycle and throw everything at me! I was just really trying to push myself as much as I could,” Hardy said. “But I had no Spider-Man! No Avengers! It’s just us. Until those bridges are crossed… That’s way beyond my control. And I’d love to do that, but that’s not even a conversation to have at my level, of just being an actor in that world.”
Tom Hardy would love a Venom/Avengers crossover
While Hardy made an uncredited cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home’s mid-credits scene, the actor did not get to work with Tom Holland’s titular webslinger or any other notable Marvel Cinematic Universe characters. Despite this, Hardy remains willing and ready for a larger role in the MCU should Marvel Studios and Sony find a way to make it happen.
“That’s the game. We played in the Sony counterpoint to Disney’s Marvel panoply, of which [Marvel Studios president] Kevin Feige has a huge amount of cards, and Sony has a huge amount of cards in its own right, including Spider-Man, and then there’s just no crossover. We’d love to cross over! That’s not happened. That’s what happens, and it’s one of those things,” Hardy added.
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With Sony pressing pause on developing more SSU movies, the next Spider-Man movie to hit the big screen will be Holland’s fourth solo movie, subtitled Brand New Day. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton is set to direct Spider-Man: Brand New Day, succeeding Jon Watts, who helmed the MCU’s first Spider-Man trilogy. Production on Brand New Day is set to begin in mid-2025, with a cast that includes Sadie Sink and Liza Colón-Zayas.
Venom and Venom: Let There Be Carnage are currently streaming on Disney+ and Starz, respectively, while Venom: The Last Dance remains without a streaming home at this time.
