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5 things you need to know about actor Tom Hardy and his film ‘Venom’

Tom Hardy in a scene from the film ‘Venom’, in which his character, journalist Eddie Brock, develops superpowers and becomes the super-villain, Venom.
Tom Hardy in a scene from the film ‘Venom’, in which his character, journalist Eddie Brock, develops superpowers and becomes the super-villain, Venom.

Actor who played British fighter pilot in ‘Dunkirk’ and title role in ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ is back on big screen as a super-villain

The new fantasy science-fiction film, Venom, will soon be out in cinemas, with British actor Tom Hardy – known for playing a series of hard-core characters – in the title role.

Here are five things you need to know about the actor and the film.

1. Tom Hardy plays a good guy. Or a is he a villain?

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One of Marvel’s most enigmatic, complex – and frankly scary characters – in coming to the big screen with the Academy Award-nominated actor Hardy as Venom.

He starts off playing Eddie Brock, a reporter who seems determined to help the world. But then something happens and Brock begins to develop superpowers ...

 

We all know that Venom is most notable for being a super-villain in the Marvel Comics universe, so for this origin story we are expecting to see a “good-guy-gone-bad” kind of villain with understandable, yet still despicable motives.

2. ‘Venom’ is Marvel, but also Sony?

Although the character of Venom is most known as one of Spider-Man’s biggest foes and is therefore a Marvel comic book character, the film rights are actually owned by Sony.

Aydee Tie
A Disney, Harry Potter, Marvel, Pokemon and altogether pop-culture geek, Aydee is the Social Media Editor on the Specialist Publications desk at SCMP. On the weekends you can find her holed up in board game cafes plotting to conquer the world... one Meeple at a time.