Venom Movie: 10 Reasons To Be Excited

8. Tom Hardy As Eddie Brock

Tom Hardy might be a bit of a franchise actor these days, but even so, his appearance in Venom is cause for excitement.

He's embarked on the Fury Road as Mad Max, torn down Gotham City as a muzzled terrorist and made appearances on TV in Taboo and Peaky Blinders. Point being, he's pretty much everywhere right now, and while it might seem as though the actor is spreading himself a little thin, he's actually the perfect choice to play Eddie Brock.

Brock, contrary to his depiction in the Spidey show literally everyone watched in the nineties, was something of a conflicted figure in the comics. He was a once lauded journalist whose eventual humiliation only came when he covered the infamous murder of Jean DeWolff for the Daily Globe. Confident he'd found the culprit responsible, it later transpired that he'd extracted the confession from a crackpot, a humiliation made complete when Spider-Man unmasked the person in question a few days later.

It's unclear what kind of baggage Hardy's Brock will carry into the film, but expect him to capture both the confidence and insecurity of the title character with ease. If the teaser was anything to go by, he'll be the most convincing thing about it.