15 Upcoming Comic Book Movie Villains We Can’t Wait To See
3. Venom
The Movie: Venom
Played By: Tom Hardy
Strictly speaking, Venom's good/evil dynamic in Sony's stand-alone is probably up for debate. He's the protagonist of the movie, after all, and there's probably a good chance that he will follow the leads of the comics as a "noble antagonist". But that would still require him to be antagonistic, and it's unlikely we're going to get a valiant, good guy Venom taking down bad guys and righting wrongs.
At various stages of production, the film has been called a sci-fi horror, and we can probably expect to see some body horror thrown in there as Eddie Brock meets the symbiote and becomes the iconic character. And the idea of that all being played out by Tom Hardy is just glorious, even if there are some slight pangs of disappointment that we won't now be getting to see him play the character in an actual MCU movie.
Still, there's more than enough in the stand-alone to make it one of the most exciting films of 2018.