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* IKnewIt: A number of fans guessed that [[spoiler: Woody Harrelson was playing Carnage]] the moment his name was teased in connection with the project.
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** The movie is intended to kick off a new SharedUniverse that probably wouldn't have been planned if not for the MCU's unparalleled success with that concept. And it's [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries not the first time]] that Sony has tried this with this character's [[Franchise/SpiderMan parent franchise]].

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** The movie is intended to kick off a new SharedUniverse that probably wouldn't have been planned if not for the MCU's unparalleled success with that concept. And it's [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries not the first time]] that Sony has tried this with this character's [[Franchise/SpiderMan [[ComicBook/SpiderMan parent franchise]].
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** Creator/RizAhmed spoke about his experience as part of the film in [[https://variety.com/2021/film/features/riz-ahmed-mogul-mowgli-encounter-muslim-representation-1235092568/ a 2021 interview]] -- although he found it "thrilling and welcoming," he admitted that he hadn't fully learned how to apply himself to the film at the time, from a combination of inexperience with acting in blockbusters and a realization he would have in hindsight that he is personally drawn more to roles based on his personal experiences.

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** Creator/RizAhmed spoke about his experience as part of the film in [[https://variety.com/2021/film/features/riz-ahmed-mogul-mowgli-encounter-muslim-representation-1235092568/ a 2021 interview]] -- although interview]]. Although he found it "thrilling and welcoming," he admitted that he hadn't fully learned how to apply himself to the film at the time, from a combination of inexperience with acting in blockbusters and a realization he would have in hindsight that he is personally drawn more to roles based on his personal experiences.
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** Creator/RizAhmed spoke about his experience as part of the film in [[https://variety.com/2021/film/features/riz-ahmed-mogul-mowgli-encounter-muslim-representation-1235092568/ a 2021 interview]] -- although he found it "thrilling and welcoming," he admitted that he hadn't fully learned how to apply himself to the film at the time, from a combination of inexperience with acting in blockbusters and him personally being drawn more to roles based more on his personal experiences.

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** Creator/RizAhmed spoke about his experience as part of the film in [[https://variety.com/2021/film/features/riz-ahmed-mogul-mowgli-encounter-muslim-representation-1235092568/ a 2021 interview]] -- although he found it "thrilling and welcoming," he admitted that he hadn't fully learned how to apply himself to the film at the time, from a combination of inexperience with acting in blockbusters and him a realization he would have in hindsight that he is personally being drawn more to roles based more on his personal experiences.

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* CreatorBacklash: Part of the reason why Creator/RubenFleischer didn't return to direct ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage'' is because the negative reception this film received soured his interest.

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Part of the reason why Creator/RubenFleischer didn't return to direct ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage'' is because the negative reception this film received soured his interest.interest.
** Creator/RizAhmed spoke about his experience as part of the film in [[https://variety.com/2021/film/features/riz-ahmed-mogul-mowgli-encounter-muslim-representation-1235092568/ a 2021 interview]] -- although he found it "thrilling and welcoming," he admitted that he hadn't fully learned how to apply himself to the film at the time, from a combination of inexperience with acting in blockbusters and him personally being drawn more to roles based more on his personal experiences.
--->"I’m not saying I don’t like those big movies. I’m saying I had not learned yet how to bring myself to those movies. Those films teach you stamina, technical craft, and it is a skill to be able to eke out your artistry in that setting. Look at Creator/JavierBardem in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''. I just hadn’t developed the skill set at that point to do the technical thing and the emotional thing."
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* TalkingToHimself:
** Tom Hardy plays Eddie and voices Venom, and the two interact.
** Ditto Riz Ahmed playing Drake and voicing Riot.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/MattSmith, Creator/PedroPascal, and [[Film/TheDanishGirl Matthias Schoenaerts]] were considered for the role of Carlton Drake before Creator/RizAhmed was cast. Smith would eventually go on to portray Milo in ''Film/{{Morbius|2022}}''.
** [[WebVideo/TruthInJournalism Adi Shankar]], [[Film/DeathNote2017 Adam Wingard]], and [[Film/DodgeBallATrueUnderdogStory Rawson Marshall Thurber]] were considered to direct the movie before Creator/RubenFleischer was hired. Shankar previously produced ''WebVideo/TruthInJournalism'' which features [[spoiler:Creator/RyanKwanten as Eddie Brock.]]
** Creator/LashanaLynch auditioned for an unspecified role in the movie. Lynch would later go on to portray Maria Rambeau in ''Film/CaptainMarvel''.
** In 1997, New Line Cinema hired David S. Goyer to write a script for an R-rated ''Venom'' movie that partially adapted ''ComicBook/MaximumCarnage'' with Creator/DolphLundgren in mind for the titular role. The film also contained nods to the various ''Venom'' comics and novels of the 1990s:
*** Like the 2018 ''Venom'' movie, there was no connection to Spider-Man whatsoever, and it also takes numerous liberties with the source material.
*** [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Eddy]] Brock lived at St. Estus' orphanage as a child, and was taken hostage by Cletus Kasady when the latter burned the orphanage down. Years later, Eddy became a respected journalist, while Cletus became a notorious serial killer with a cult following and a fixation on Eddy.
*** Eddy went undercover to help the police lure Cletus into a trap, with Cletus being sentenced to a televised public execution.
*** Dr. Rachel Kafka – Cletus’ psychiatrist – combines aspects of Anne Weying, being Eddy’s love-interest and even becoming She-Venom late into the movie.
*** The Venom symbiote – bonded to an alien spider – escapes a horde of "Blood Hunter" symbiotes by jumping into a stasis pod, which crash-lands on Earth and crushes a mugger in the process of robbing Eddy. The symbiote leaves the dead alien spider and bonds to Eddy, turning him into a semi-amorphous monster with the ability to sprout giant spider-legs from the emblems on his chest and back.
*** As Venom, Eddy beats up some of Cletus’ followers, but has a symbiote-induced premonition of Cletus bonding to a Blood Hunter symbiote and going on a rampage, and sets out to stop Cletus’ execution.
*** One of the Blood Hunter symbiotes follows the Venom symbiote to Earth and bonds to Cletus just as he’s about to be executed. Cletus escapes and fights with Venom, proving even more powerful than him.
*** The Vault – a black ops government organization that seeks to capture and weaponize the symbiotes, having captured a few Blood Hunters in the past – recruits Dr. Kafka and manipulates her into helping them capture Eddy and separate him from the Venom symbiote.
*** Upon realizing she was tricked, Dr. Kafka is imprisoned, but the Venom symbiote escapes and bonds to her, turning her into She-Venom until she returns the symbiote to Eddy with a kiss.
*** Cletus – now going by Carnage – hunts down the people involved in his arrest and kills them, then sends his followers on a city-wide rampage.
*** As the Blood Hunter symbiote consumes him from the inside-out, Cletus returns to the ruins of St. Estus’ for a final confrontation with Eddy. Eddy and Dr. Kafka inject Cletus with Vitamin-C to incapacitate him, but the Blood Hunter symbiote abandons Cletus’ body in preparation to reproduce. Eddie separates from the Venom symbiote and sends it to fight the Blood Hunter, then seemingly immolates them both.
*** In the film’s finale, Eddy and Dr. Kafka remain a couple, and it’s revealed the Venom symbiote is still alive and bonded to Eddy.
** In 2013, a ''Venom'' film was also considered as one of the planned spin-offs of ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'' along with a planned ''Sinister Six'' movie (which would also have potentially included Venom as a member of the titular team), with Alex Kurtzman as the director. This is seemingly why the Venom symbiote could be seen as part of the Oscorp Special Projects lab in the trailer for ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'', indicating it was meant to be introduced there [[MissingTrailerScene before being cut for unknown reasons]]. The leaked e-mails from the 2014 Sony hack also revealed that, among the wealth of planned installments for ''The Amazing Spider-Man Series'', a few of them would have focused on Venom, one of them even being an ''Agent Venom'' film. Creator/FinnWittrock and Creator/AlanTudyk were the frontrunners to play Eddie Brock and Cletus Kasady respectively, while Creator/ChrisZylka all but jumped to come back as Flash Thompson.
** The film was originally planned to begin with the Life Foundation shuttle coming across the symbiote-infested comet and harvesting four of them, but this scene was cut and the film instead opens with the shuttle on its way back to Earth after collecting the samples.
** "The Third Floor” -- one of the companies that worked on the ''Venom'' movie's CGI -- released concept art showing that Carnage was originally going to be the film's antagonist rather than Riot.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/MattSmith, Creator/PedroPascal, and [[Film/TheDanishGirl Matthias Schoenaerts]] were considered for the role of Carlton Drake before Creator/RizAhmed was cast. Smith would eventually go on to portray Milo in ''Film/{{Morbius|2022}}''.
** [[WebVideo/TruthInJournalism Adi Shankar]], [[Film/DeathNote2017 Adam Wingard]], and [[Film/DodgeBallATrueUnderdogStory Rawson Marshall Thurber]] were considered to direct the movie before Creator/RubenFleischer was hired. Shankar previously produced ''WebVideo/TruthInJournalism'' which features [[spoiler:Creator/RyanKwanten as Eddie Brock.]]
** Creator/LashanaLynch auditioned for an unspecified role in the movie. Lynch would later go on to portray Maria Rambeau in ''Film/CaptainMarvel''.
** In 1997, New Line Cinema hired David S. Goyer to write a script for an R-rated ''Venom'' movie that partially adapted ''ComicBook/MaximumCarnage'' with Creator/DolphLundgren in mind for the titular role. The film also contained nods to the various ''Venom'' comics and novels of the 1990s:
*** Like the 2018 ''Venom'' movie, there was no connection to Spider-Man whatsoever, and it also takes numerous liberties with the source material.
*** [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Eddy]] Brock lived at St. Estus' orphanage as a child, and was taken hostage by Cletus Kasady when the latter burned the orphanage down. Years later, Eddy became a respected journalist, while Cletus became a notorious serial killer with a cult following and a fixation on Eddy.
*** Eddy went undercover to help the police lure Cletus into a trap, with Cletus being sentenced to a televised public execution.
*** Dr. Rachel Kafka – Cletus’ psychiatrist – combines aspects of Anne Weying, being Eddy’s love-interest and even becoming She-Venom late into the movie.
*** The Venom symbiote – bonded to an alien spider – escapes a horde of "Blood Hunter" symbiotes by jumping into a stasis pod, which crash-lands on Earth and crushes a mugger in the process of robbing Eddy. The symbiote leaves the dead alien spider and bonds to Eddy, turning him into a semi-amorphous monster with the ability to sprout giant spider-legs from the emblems on his chest and back.
*** As Venom, Eddy beats up some of Cletus’ followers, but has a symbiote-induced premonition of Cletus bonding to a Blood Hunter symbiote and going on a rampage, and sets out to stop Cletus’ execution.
*** One of the Blood Hunter symbiotes follows the Venom symbiote to Earth and bonds to Cletus just as he’s about to be executed. Cletus escapes and fights with Venom, proving even more powerful than him.
*** The Vault – a black ops government organization that seeks to capture and weaponize the symbiotes, having captured a few Blood Hunters in the past – recruits Dr. Kafka and manipulates her into helping them capture Eddy and separate him from the Venom symbiote.
*** Upon realizing she was tricked, Dr. Kafka is imprisoned, but the Venom symbiote escapes and bonds to her, turning her into She-Venom until she returns the symbiote to Eddy with a kiss.
*** Cletus – now going by Carnage – hunts down the people involved in his arrest and kills them, then sends his followers on a city-wide rampage.
*** As the Blood Hunter symbiote consumes him from the inside-out, Cletus returns to the ruins of St. Estus’ for a final confrontation with Eddy. Eddy and Dr. Kafka inject Cletus with Vitamin-C to incapacitate him, but the Blood Hunter symbiote abandons Cletus’ body in preparation to reproduce. Eddie separates from the Venom symbiote and sends it to fight the Blood Hunter, then seemingly immolates them both.
*** In the film’s finale, Eddy and Dr. Kafka remain a couple, and it’s revealed the Venom symbiote is still alive and bonded to Eddy.
** In 2013, a ''Venom'' film was also considered as one of the planned spin-offs of ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'' along with a planned ''Sinister Six'' movie (which would also have potentially included Venom as a member of the titular team), with Alex Kurtzman as the director. This is seemingly why the Venom symbiote could be seen as part of the Oscorp Special Projects lab in the trailer for ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'', indicating it was meant to be introduced there [[MissingTrailerScene before being cut for unknown reasons]]. The leaked e-mails from the 2014 Sony hack also revealed that, among the wealth of planned installments for ''The Amazing Spider-Man Series'', a few of them would have focused on Venom, one of them even being an ''Agent Venom'' film. Creator/FinnWittrock and Creator/AlanTudyk were the frontrunners to play Eddie Brock and Cletus Kasady respectively, while Creator/ChrisZylka all but jumped to come back as Flash Thompson.
** The film was originally planned to begin with the Life Foundation shuttle coming across the symbiote-infested comet and harvesting four of them, but this scene was cut and the film instead opens with the shuttle on its way back to Earth after collecting the samples.
** "The Third Floor” -- one of the companies that worked on the ''Venom'' movie's CGI -- released concept art showing that Carnage was originally going to be the film's antagonist rather than Riot.
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