Sam Raimi Hasn't Seen Tom Hardy's Venom Movies
Spider-Man trilogy director Sam Raimi has admitted that he hasn't seen the Tom Hardy Venom films. When most people think of the Marvel anti-hero Venom, these days, Hardy's interpretation of the character comes to mind. He first took on the role in Venom back in 2018, which was helmed by Ruben Fleischer. The film tells the story of the journalist Eddie Brock who becomes bonded with the alien symbiote Venom. While it was not particularly critically successful, it still did well enough for Sony to greenlight a sequel. In 2021, Venom: Let There Be Carnage was released in theaters, this time directed by Andy Serkis. The film saw similar mixed reviews, though, along with 2022's Morbius, still seems to have plans of setting up a Sony cinematic universe.
Of course, Hardy was not the first live-action cinematic Venom. The character made his big screen debut in Raimi's Spider-Man 3, which premiered in 2007. Spider-Man 3 is widely considered to be the worst of Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, and part of that has to do with it's over-saturation of villains. Since the film's release, Raimi has been quite open about the fact that he was urged to include Venom in Spider-Man 3 by the studio as Venom was a fan favorite Spider-Man villain, and thus, the character seems somewhat shoehorned into the final act of the film.
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In a recent interview with Uproxx to discuss his return to the world of Marvel with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Raimi has discussed his relationship to the character of Venom, and admitted that he has not seen the newer Hardy movies. As a fan of Spider-Man comics himself, Raimi has admitted that he was simply never a fan of the character of
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