Marcel Winatschek

Tom Hardy’s Venom

Venom’s a film now with Tom Hardy, and honestly that’s the only reason I’d care. The character itself doesn’t interest me much—symbiote, Spider-Man enemy, the usual comic stuff. But him doing his thing, going completely serious and committed into something as absurd as a talking creature living inside a guy’s skin, that’s worth the ticket. He doesn’t half-ass anything.

Ruben Fleischer’s making it. Zombieland director, so there’s some comedy sensibility in there. Woody Harrelson, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed in supporting roles. October release.

Two hours of Tom Hardy having an argument with himself through an alien parasite. I’ll be there.