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Superhero movies are known for their bluntness, butVenomexists in a fog of ambiguity.
Lets put on our symbiote costumes and dive in.
Wait, I take it all back were opening on a placid lakeside vista!
It was just a backdrop in some kind of medical facility where a dudes undergoing a scan.
This is, presumably, Tom Hardys Eddie Brock, who well speak more about in a moment.
We can only hope thatX-Men: Dark Phoenixgives some love to the San Mateo.
We dont know a ton about the films depiction of Eddie just yet.
It also had a dark imagination and wanted bad things to happen to people.
He has been both antihero and sympathetic villain over the years.
But much of that may change in the film.
In anon-set photo, looks like the filmic Eddie was, at one point, in the military.
He does so and internal struggles with the symbiote ensue.
He had the wrong story, he got in trouble for it.
So maybe hes a warrior turned reporter?
I speak from experience.
This here is Michelle Williamss Anne Weying, the female lead.
Heres hoping Williams gets better material to work with in the movie.
Eddie (we presume) wanders around some kind of science-y place after dark.
This could be the Life Foundation, an organization mentioned in thatpromo photofrom before.
In the comics, the Life Foundation was aneeeeeevilcompany that manufactured Venom knockoffs.
And what would the superhero genre be withouteeeeeevilcompanies?
So were led to believe this is a corpse, yes?
We can see what looks like a foot, but … wheres the rest of it?
I think we can safely say that dismemberment will be the order of the day in this picture.
The VO then cites another possible thing: an accident.
As it grumbles those words, we see investigators in hazmat suits looking at some strange wreckage.
We get it confirmed that the guy on the table is, indeed, Eddie.
But at what point is this happening?
Has he bonded with the symbiote yet and is being examined?
Or is he being treated for issues that lead him toneedthe symbiote?
At last, we see the symbiote everyones so hungry for.
But whos gazing at it in its vacuum-sealed container?
Formulaic, yes, but hey, any excuse to look at Riz Ahmed, am I right?
Fear not,Fury Roadfans you will, indeed, see Tom Hardy driving very fast inVenom.
Okay, so this is interesting.
The trailer uses two (possibly unrelated) shots in quick succession that indicate an unusual superpower for Venom.
First, Eddie gestures into the air, then …
… a bunch of folks go flying.
In the immortal words of Tenacious D:thats telekinesis, Kyle.
Typically, Venom doesnt have such capabilities, so maybe the movies putting Eddie intoGod Mode?
That would be unfortunate, as too-vast power sets are quite boring.
Hey hey, its Reid Scott, a.k.a.
He is acting like playing a Life Foundation scientist, and hes terribly concerned about whats happening.
The trailer ends with the visage of Venom, or possibly Frank fromDonnie Darko.
Hey, a power fantasys a power fantasy.
