What could well be the final trailer before Venom releases dropped online today, and it's... a bit of a doozy. Not disastrous by any stretch of the imagination - the film is showing some brilliant signs of promise at the moment - but it was far from the mass hype-generator Sony inevitably wanted it to be, no matter the repeated use of the trailer music from Avengers: Infinity War.
With this being the third trailer, Sony have elected to show off quite a lot of the film, and even more in blink-and-you'll miss it chunks. This calls for the equally inevitable trailer breakdown, and with the Ruben Fleischer film having already been rather open regarding its use of the Lethal Protector story-arc from the comics, it's getting easier to piece together the story by the day.
Of course, comic book movies these days are very fond of the odd misdirection here and there, but, given what we know of that story - as well as what we’ve seen in the trailers, interviews, and this most recent look - the film’s skeleton (or symbiote) is coming into focus.
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.
