Michelle Williams is one of the best actors going, so the fact she's trying her hand at a comic book film is more than enough reason to be excited for Venom.
A lead in Brokeback Mountain, Shutter Island and more recently All the Money in the World, Williams is a proven talent and one that elevates the film just by her presence alone. As for her role, she'll be playing a character called Ann Weying, Brock's onetime love and later Symbiote host herself. With the film holding such a reverence for the source-material, it would appear as though all of this will still be the case come October, with the potential for Weying to don a Symbiote of her own to set up a future film afterwards there as well.
Williams is also joined by Riz Ahmed (in what looks to be a villainous role), and that too is brilliant on its own. His performance as pilot Bodhi Rook in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was a key highlight of that film, and with another franchise to his name, Venom looks to be yet another stepping stone in the actor's path to mainstream recognition, following a critically lauded bout in 2014's Nightcrawler.
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.
