VENOM: Riz Ahmed's Mystery Role Has Seemingly Been Revealed (And It's Not Carnage)
New photos from the Atlanta set of Venom have surfaced, featuring our first look at Riz Ahmed on-location and we may have also learned the identity of his mystery character. Come take a look!
When we initially learned that Primetime Emmy-winner Riz Ahmed (The Night Of) had been cast in Sony Pictures' Venom, many were quick to presume that he had been cast as Cletus Kasady, a.k.a. Carnage, but follow-up reports quickly debunked those rumors and instead offered up The Chameleon as his potential character. There was even buzz that his mystery character would also appear in 2019's Silver and Black.
However, thanks to a new set photo from Atlanta Filming, we've learned that he's playing neither of the above and he actually could still appear in Silver and Black. According to their sources, he's playing a character named "Dr. Drake" as in Dr. Carlton Drake, the Leader of the Life Foundation, who in the "Lethal Protector" story arc is responsible for forcibly extracting five seeds from the Venom symbiote, who later become known as Agony, Phage, Riot, Lasher, and Scream.
The five symbiote offspring - and their older brother Carnage - have all been heavily rumored to be the primary antagonists in the upcoming Ruben Fleischer-directed spinoff, so Ahmed as Drake does line up with everything else we've heard about the highly-anticipated film so far.
Check out the snapshot of Ahmed on-set below:
Tom Hardy is Eddie Brock in Venom, the upcoming film from Sony’s Marvel Universe releasing October 5, 2018 – production starts this fall.
Venom features:
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock/Venom
Riz Ahmed in an undisclosed role
Michelle Williams in an undisclosed role
Jenny Slate in an undisclosed role
Reid Scott in an undisclosed role
Scott Haze in an undisclosed role
Woody Harrelson in an undisclosed role
Venom unleashes in theaters October 5, 2018
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