VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE Release Postponed to June 25th, 2021

After grossing more than $850 million at the global box office, it's no surprise that Sony Pictures is moving forward with a sequel to Venom (based on the Marvel comics character of the same name), but with the COVID-19 pandemic, we'll have to wait longer to see it.

According to a tweet by Exhibitor Relations (see below), the Venom sequel, now titled Venom: Let There Be Carnage, is slated to come out on June 25th, 2021, pushing it back over eight months from its previous release date (Sony had an October 2nd, 2020 release slot reserved for an untitled "Sony-Marvel" sequel).

Last year it was reported that Venom co-writer and executive producer Kelly Marcel returned to write and executive produce the sequel, with Andy Serkis (Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle) directing the follow-up film to 2018's Venom, which was directed by Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland: Double Tap).

As previously reported by Variety, in the sequel Tom Hardy returns as Eddie Brock, a persistent reporter who made a transformative connection with an alien symbiote with a hunger for human heads in the first movie.

Hardy is joined in the sequel by returning co-star Michelle Williams (as Brock's ex-fiancée Anne Weying) and Woody Harrelson as Cletus Kasady, aka Carnage, a ruthless and downright deadly villain from the pages of Marvel Comics.

The title for the sequel confirms that Carnage (one of the more deadly and notorious characters from Marvel Comics) will be front and center as the new villain, and we'll be sure to keep Daily Dead readers updated as more details are revealed.

With VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE (June 25, 2021) vacating the first weekend in October, WB's TENET now has prime real estate if multiplexes aren't able to be fully operational this summer.

— Exhibitor Relations Co. 2: Box Office Boogaloo (@ERCboxoffice) April 21, 2020