Although everyone's favourite cantankerous old newspaper editor is yet to make his debut in the MCU, Venom does include a reference to him, by actually borrowing from the nineties Spider-Man cartoon.
J. Jonah Jameson Jr's son, John Jameson, has commonly been depicted as an astronaut before, but it was only in that cartoon where he unwittingly brought the symbiotes to Earth. Venom tells a version of this story in its opening, and while Jameson only shows up on screen once - dead, for that matter - it provides Marvel with the perfect jumping point in which to bridge these two universes together.
We don't yet know if JB Smoove is playing JJ in Far From Home, but if he does, it would be a clever move for the film to reference Jameson's crash landing. That way, they don't even have to focus on Venom himself - all they would be doing is providing a nice little reference for Spidey fans to chow down on.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
