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 watchedin 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.
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.
