Spider-Man: Homecoming - 13 Biggest Rumours You Need To Know (July 4th)

Forget Venom, Marvel and Sony are going to jump a step and have Carnage debut, with Better Call Saul's Michael Mando playing homicidal maniac Cletus Kasady who comes into contact with the alien symbiote and unleashes a monster who made Venom look like a kitten.

As evidence of the fact, the Better Call Saul Twitter account dropped an almighty (possibly tongue-in-cheek) tease to announce Mando's casting:

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To put it plainly, you cannot have Carnage without Venom appearing first: it's the epitome of putting the cart before the horse. And it would be remarkable - and remarkably wrong - for them to put Vulture, The Tinkerer, Venom AND Carnage all in a single movie (unless they've learned precisely nothing from past Spider-Man movies).

BUT there is a possibility that Mando could be playing Kasady, who plays a secondary villain role (possibly in the leaked Washington DC sequence) and ends up imprisoned and bitter by the end to set up a future reappearance?