{"id":40499,"date":"2017-05-19T17:23:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T21:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=40499"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:10:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:10:07","slug":"tom-hardy-is-venom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/19\/tom-hardy-is-venom\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hardy Is Venom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Venom-hardy-stitch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Venom-hardy-stitch.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Venom-hardy-stitch-339x171.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/>He was Bane. He was briefly a member of the <strong>Suicide Squad<\/strong>. Many wanted him to be the new Wolverine. But, instead, Tom Hardy will be Venom.<\/p>\n<p>Sony announced to day that the Oscar-nominated actor has been cast to play the titular character in 2018&#8217;s <strong>Venom<\/strong>. The studio also announced that Ruben Fleischer will be directing the project.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tom Hardy is Eddie Brock in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Venom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Venom<\/a>, the upcoming film from Sony\u2019s Marvel Universe releasing October 5, 2018 \u2013 production starts this fall. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OZQqDEvoum\">pic.twitter.com\/OZQqDEvoum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sony Pictures (@SonyPictures) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SonyPictures\/status\/865629713225572352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hardy has the mix of acting skills and physique that makes him a natural target for producers of comic book films. In addition to playing Bane in <strong>The Dark Knight Rises<\/strong>, he was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/06\/cumberbatch-hardy-being-considered-for-doctor-strange\/\">briefly considered for the lead in <\/a><strong>Doctor Strange<\/strong> and apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/02\/will-smith-jared-leto-tom-hardy-officially-headlining-suicide-squad\/\">was cast in <\/a><strong>Suicide Squad <\/strong>but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/15\/tom-hardy-exits-suicide-squad\/\">had to drop out<\/a> due to scheduling conflicts. He was also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/hugh-jackman-wants-tom-hardy-as-wolverine\/\">Hugh Jackman&#8217;s choice to replace him as Wolverine<\/a>, but that doesn&#8217;t seem likely now. Although, as Josh Brolin proved, one actor being cast in two separate Marvel franchises at different studios can happen.<\/p>\n<p>Fleischer also has had a dalliance with comic book films. He was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/30\/thurber-fleischer-mckay-in-running-to-direct-ant-man\/\">on the short list to replace Edgar Wright on <\/a><strong>Ant-Man <\/strong>before Marvel settled on Peyton Reed. Fleischer made his mark with the inventive <strong>Zombieland<\/strong>, but as of late has been directing television shows like <strong>Santa Clarita Diet <\/strong>and <strong>Superstore<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This shows that Sony is willing to take the bump that surely will come after <strong>Spider-Man: Homecoming <\/strong>and run with it to make the shared universe it always wanted. However, the appeal of the Venom character is his connection to Peter Parker\/Spider-Man. Eddie Brock hates Peter Parker, which makes him the perfect host for the alien symbiote after Parker rejects it. I don&#8217;t know where this origin will fit in in the latest reboot.\u00a0Brock doesn&#8217;t seem to be <strong>Homecoming<\/strong>. Perhaps the alien symbiote will be introduced in <strong>Avengers: Infinity War<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>More on this as it develops.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Sony&#8217;s Spider-Man shared universe is a go as the Oscar-nominated actor is cast as VENOM. <\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/19\/tom-hardy-is-venom\/\" title=\"Tom Hardy Is Venom\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":40500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,84],"tags":[4257,8234,3398,4914],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-comicsandfilm","8":"category-news","9":"tag-ruben-fleischer","10":"tag-spider-man-homecoming","11":"tag-tom-hardy","12":"tag-venom"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40499"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=40499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}