Venom: Let There Be Carnage will give the titular antagonist a terrifying new ability.
Director Andy Serkis spoke to IGN today about the release of the first Venom 2 trailer. In the process, he teased a new power for Cletus Kasady and his symbiote.
“He can turn to mist. He can turn to all manner of tendrils. He can take different forms. He can weaponize, he can do all of these different things,” Serkis said. “With all symbiotes, they reflect the person who is their host. So the darkness of Carnage, the playfulness, the wit, the strangeness. Cletus has a real intelligence and… a real sense of humor, and we wanted to reflect that in the symbiote that is linked to him.”
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In the comics, Carnage has much more control over his symbiote, which allows him to create tendrils and form various weapons. Venom took on some of these abilities in the first film, likely to distance him from Spider-Man as Venom is not part of the MCU. So rather than copying Spidey’s abilities, the symbiote is more like a living ooze. As such, it seems Carnage will now get another power to match Eddie Brock: the ability to turn to mist.
It’s not clear how this power will work, as it seems to imply the symbiote lets Kasady completely vaporize himself. But for Serkis, the new ability helps to externalize both Kasady and Carnage’s mindsets and personalities.
“Venom is… pretty straightforward in a way,” Serkis said. “He’s like a quarterback. He’s very grounded, very physically sort of heavy, and like a quarterback where brute force is very much his thing. Whereas Carnage, in the same way that Cletus is manipulative psychologically and physically, he can take your energy and completely shift it for you. So we wanted the whole movement style to be very idiosyncratic and off-kilter and strange, and you just can’t pin him down. It would be like trying to have a fight with an octopus basically.”
Directed by Andy Serkis, Venom: Let There Be Carnage stars Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock/Venom, Woody Harrelson as Cletus Kasady/Carnage, Michelle Williams as Anne Weying, Reid Scott as Dr. Dan Lewis, Naomie Harris, Stephen Graham, Sean Delaney and Larry Olubamiwo. The film arrives in theaters Sept. 17.
Source: IGN