‘Venom’ Might Add Woody Harrelson To Its Already Impressive Cast
ThatVenommovie that we’re still having a hard time accepting as real has already racked up a really impressive cast. And now it’s close to adding another high profile name:Woody Harrelsonis in talks to co-star. Rumor has it Harrelson will play some sort of henchman in the sort-ofSpider-Manspin-off. Details about this latest addition to theVenomcast are below.
Columbia Pictures’sVenommovie continues to come together nicely.Tom Hardyis in the lead, playingSpider-Mancharacter Eddie Brock aka Venom, and the cast around him includesJenny Slate,Michelle Williams, and maybeRiz Ahmed. Time to make room for another name: Woody Harrelson.Variety(and others) are reporting that theWar for the Planet of the Apesco-star is in talks to join the superhero (or should that be supervillain?) spin-off. Details on just who Harrelson will play are currently not available, but rumor has it that he’ll be playing a “henchman.” Harrleson seems like too big an actor to play some nameless background goon, so if he is playing a henchman, I’d assume it’s a very prominent henchman.
Then again, Harrelson could be making a brief appearance as a favor to a former director.Venomis being helmed byZombieland’sRuben Fleischer, and perhaps Harrelson enjoyed working with Fleischer so much he’s game to put in a quick appearance in a brief role. This is yet another big franchise for Harrelson to join, recently appearing in the latestPlanet of the Apesfilm and having just finished shootingSolo: A Star Wars Story.
Details about this strangeVenomfilm have been mostly vague, but werecently learnedthat the plot would be borrowing from the comic book runsLethal ProtectorandPlanet of the Symbiotes.Lethal Protectorturned Venom from full-fledged bad guy into a bit of an anti-hero, andPlanet of the Symbiotesinvolved an alien invasion storyline.
Venom, a drippy, fang-filled bruiser created in the late 1980s, is, of course, primarily known as a Spider-Man antagonist, and appeared on screen before in Sam Raimi’s often malignedSpider-Man 3.In that film, the character was transformed from his traditional form of a muscle-bound jerk into a scrawny, smarmy dweeb played by Topher Grace.Venomcasting Tom Hardy as its lead suggests the film will be moving far, far away from Raimi’s interpretation. Still, this project remains rather strange. As far as we know,Spider-Manwill not be appearing in the film, which begs the question: can Venom as a character work without Spider-Man? Everyone involved with this film sure as hell hopes so. No matter howVenomturns out, one thing is certain: it has a really cool cast.
