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By Michileen Martin
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"Venom: The Last Dance" has come and gone and with it, Tom Hardy's final solo film as Eddie Brock/Venom in the Sony Spider-Verse. As much as fans wanted it to happen, none of his appearances included any kind of meeting with Tom Holland's Peter Parker/Spider-Man, but according to Hardy the epic meeting came very close to happening.
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Speaking on The Discourse Podcast from Playlist, Hardy said, "We got close. We got as close as I could possibly imagine getting, apart from doing a film together, which I would have loved to have done because that just means so much fun ... Fundamentally, for me, it would be for the kids. Because, you know, as much as adults love superhero films, as you can tell by the box office when they're successful, I think I'm constantly reminded by children how important these characters are. And they don't know why their favorite characters aren't in films together."
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Hardy didn't get into specifics about why the crossover didn't happen but implied it was studio politics that stopped the meeting.
It very much seemed like a crossover was happening in 2021. That year "Venom: Let There Be Carnage" ended with Tom Hardy's Eddie Brock and Venom finding themselves in the same universe as Tom Holland's Spider-Man, teasing some kind of meeting later that year in "Spider-Man: No Way Home."
But rather than there be any kind of crossover, the post-credits for "No Way Home" revealed Brock and Venom going back to their own universe, but not before leaving behind a little baby venom.
The "Venom" trilogy survives as Sony's only true success with its many attempts to capitalize off the library of Spider-Man spinoff characters. While critics weren't fans of any of the "Venom" movies, unlike Sony's other live-action Spider-Verse offerings, they put butts in seats. The first "Venom" movie, released in 2018, made $856 million.
In 2021 "Venom: Let There Be Carnage" made $507 million, and last year "Venom: The Last Dance" took home $479 million.
It's difficult to accept there isn't some chance left for a Spider-Man/Venom meeting. Considering the massive, cross-multiverse cast of "Avengers: Doomsday" - and that, in most likelihood, the cast of "Avengers: Secret Wars" will dwarf the earlier movie - seeing Tom Hardy's name on an upcoming "Avengers" movie cast list wouldn't be the most surprising thing.
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