by Although Tom Holland‘s Spider-Man made an unexpected appearance in the post-credits scene of Venom: Let There Be Carnage, director Andy Serkis said that the MCU hero could have been featured “a little more.”
Months before Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s Multiverse-infused plot, the aforementioned post-credits scene took place, setting up the threequel.
In the scene, Venom and Eddie Brock travelled to Earth-616 (the planet of the MCU), where they watched a television while watching Peter Parker, played by Tom Holland, read the news.
About his brief appearance in Venom 2, Holland previously stated that he “genuinely doesn’t know” if he will ever interact with Tom Hardy’s titular symbiote anti-hero in another film.
The director of Venom 2 explains Spider-unexpected Man’s appearance
Director of Venom: Let There Be Carnage Andy Serkis spoke with GQ Magazine about the sequel’s post-credits scene and Tom Holland‘s unexpected appearance as Spider-Man.
When asked about the “level of involvement” of Sony’s expanded Marvel universe with the MCU, Serkis first admitted that he was “unsure”:
“It was unsure as to the level of involvement that world would meet with our world.”
After that, the Marvel film’s director revealed that earlier versions of the script included “a little more” of Holland’s web-slinger in the post-credits scene:
“There were drafts which had more, a little more, of the other. The unspoken. It was very, very carefully chosen.”
Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, previously stated that “there was a lot of collaboration” between the teams behind Venom two and Spidar-Man: No Way Home to pull off the momentous post-credits scene. Serkis’ remarks are consistent with that statement.
“There was a lot of coordination — and if you don’t know all the coordination yet, I’m not going to be the one to tell you — but yes, between Sony and Marvel and the ‘Venom’ team and the ‘No Way Home’ team… We worked together on it.”
Peter Parker played by Tom Holland will Introducing Venom, played by Tom Hardy.
The (vicious) visitors from Earth-616, including Venom and Eddie Brock played by Tom Hardy, returned to their own universes, according to Spider-Man: No Way Home. However, a post-credits scene from the threequel itself revealed that some of Venom’s symbiote was still present on Earth-616.
That being said, it’s unlikely that Tom Hollend’s Peter Parker and Tom Hardy’s Venom will ever meet, barring another significant Multiverse-related occurrence (incursion?).
Although the post-credits scene for Venom two is meant to inform viewers that the MCU and Sony’s Spider-Men universe “are going to somehow collide,” director Andy Serkis previously stated that they wanted to do it in “a way that it still leaves so much open.”
“[the titular symbiote] can come up against before he gets to, let’s place this very clearly, before he gets to Spider-Man,” said Serkis in a previous interview, adding that he believes all signs point to a potential confrontation between Venom and Spider-Man.
This may suggest that a confrontation between Holland’s web-slinger and Hardy’s Venom is still possible, possibly in a large-scale film like Avengers: Secret Wars.
