VENOM 2 Star Tom Hardy Teases Venom Vs. Carnage With A Unique Piece Of Artwork

Tom Hardy has taken to social media to share some very cool artwork which teases the upcoming battle between Eddie Brock and the evil Cletus Kasady in Andy Serkis' Venom 2. Check it out after the jump...

By JoshWilding - Nov 06, 2019 02:11 AM EST

Filed Under: Venom: Let There Be Carnage

At the end of Venom, Woody Harrelson made his SUMC (Sony's Universe of Marvel Characters) debut as Cletus Kasady, and it's obvious that he's going to become Carnage in the upcoming sequel.

Now, star Tom Hardy (Eddie Brock) has taken to Instagram to share a piece of artwork teasing the clash between the two characters. What's really interesting about this, though, is the fact that the two Symbiotes are portrayed in the style of the "Comedy" and "Tragedy" masks you see in theaters.

Carnage's face is presented as "Comedy" (which makes sense considering how much joy he takes in slaughtering the innocent), while Venom's face represents "Tragedy" here.

That may or may not be a clue about what to expect in the sequel, but's it's intriguing nonetheless and it's hard not to wonder what Venom 2 director Andy Serkis has in store for these two.

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Check out some concept art from Venom (including a Venom
vs. Carnage battle) by clicking the "View List" button below!

As you can see, Venom has no chest symbol here and looks a lot like the Ultimate version of the character as a result. Still, something is definitely better than nothing, as you'll see below.

Venom has a chest logo here and it looks a lot like the one from the comics. Unfortunately, Sony decided not to include that, presumably because this version of Venom hasn't met Spider-Man.

This is a very extreme take on Venom, but he looks awesome and it would be great to see the Symbiote evolve into this monstrous form in the sequel, especially when he faces off with Carnage!

These designs should definitely remind you of the comic books, as Venom is sporting more of a blue hue. Artist Matt Millard did a great job of imagining how the character could look on screen.

"One of my first task on this movie was to infuse some life in the Character, play around with Venom and make a series of quick studies showing him not as a 3D model but as a creature with a distinct personality (there is a sort of grotesque joyfulness in the character I really love, especially in the Lethal Protector comics)," concept artist Paolo Giandoso says about these pieces.

"Then I was asked to design ways for the Symbiote to slither over Eddie's face and create Venom," he continues. "In my mind, the symbiote, being a shapeshifter, can potentially grow teeth, gums, eyes and tongues wherever it wants over his surface. All its matter has the potential to become these sort of features.

"It just chooses to create them on the face to arrange them in a way is more functional for a bipedal host. I wanted to give the idea of these features emerging and rearranging, lines of teeth moving and sliding around until they compose the final shape we all know." It's a shame we didn't see more of that green slime, eh?

So, yeah, that looks a lot like Carnage, right? "I was tasked with concepting the whole symbiote final fight, mechanics and all, the way the Venom and his evil counterpart clash together and merge, until the final sacrifice scene after the rocket explosion," Giandoso explains. With that in mind, common sense says that Carnage was probably used as just a stand-in here.

"These images are a small section of a deleted scene from the beginning of the third act, in which Eddie confront his buddy about his hypocrisy and they finally make peace and move on to save the world," Giandoso notes. It would have been really cool to see this before the final battle but it arguably wasn't needed as these two managed to make amends in a somewhat simpler exchange.

Many thanks to artists David Masson, Matt Millard, and Paolo Giandoso.

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33 Comments

USAgent716 - 11/6/2019, 3:40 AM

Nice. This movie is in good hands.

JoJo1982 - 11/6/2019, 4:20 AM

Hopefully this has waaay more monster action and better development/performance from the supporting cast.

Kyos - 11/6/2019, 5:38 AM

Little to no interest in this, but I guess it's cool for fans of the first movie.

dragon316 - 11/6/2019, 6:08 AM

I will say if I compare venom movie to Spider-Man 3 venom I choose venom movie joker movie have no Batman became very popular success I will hold off judgement until see movie for myself if I like it rating of movie will make difference and show more symbiotic action this time this venom movie I take it as ultimate venom and venom 616 background look of venom in movie show more violence

MUTO123 - 11/6/2019, 6:52 AM

Well... at least it’ll be easy to tell them apart when they fight.

Se4M4NSt4ine - 11/6/2019, 7:04 AM

I’m getting that art tattooed on my body, regardless of the film that’s some sick ass body art

789 - 11/6/2019, 8:06 AM

Well years ago I was really excited to see someday Venom fight Carnage on big screen, but now I kinda lost that interest(

JoJo1982 - 11/6/2019, 9:43 AM

@789 - same here

SgtSoggybottom - 11/6/2019, 10:41 AM

Not gonna lie...I fapped a little.

VENOM 2 Star Tom Hardy Teases Venom Vs. Carnage With A Unique Piece Of Artwork

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