This might end up awful... or be somewhat decent. All I know is thanks to Tom Hardy's acting I'll end up with another fantastic comedy and laugh for hours with Venom.
I don't like seeing Maximum Carnage that much condensed, edited down, simplified and changed.. but it was expected. The original comic was about several groupes (pure heroes: Spidey, Cloak, Dagger, etc.; anti-heroes: Venom, Black Cat, Morbius, etc.; and newer 1990s extreme villains: Carnage, Shriek, Demogoblin, etc.) coming together, clashing down in a long ongoing fight of ideology and good ol' superhero brawls on splash pages.
This movie, like the previous ones, seems to combine an origin story (Carnage's in this case), strip the story down of its Spider-man/Marvel-lore, and simplify all of this into a "good hero" vs his "evil doppelganger" (speaking of, no Spider-Doppelganger here either..). Which basically makes this film the same as the first one: Venom vs. evil symbiote. Only with Shriek replacing the rocket from the end of the previous one, I suppose. You have to get rid of the evil symbiote at the end, right..?
I never expected this to be faithful.
What is strange for me, is that Sony can almost make a real Maximum Carnage film. Just make a simple Carnage origin story first. Throw him into Ravencroft at the end. Make your Morbius origin story film. Allow MCU Spider-man to branch out into the Sony-verse, like everyone expects it to be, according to rumors. THEN make Maximum Carnage. Goody-2shoes Tom Holland will tag along one or more MCU heroes against Venom+Morbius (and just add Black Cat at that point) facing an escaped Carnage that tags along Shriek. And you can even improvise Spider-Doppelganger as a remnant from that parallel realities adventures. Bam! Maximum Carnage with the actual factions duking it out (LIKE THE SEGA GENESIS GAME, AW YEAH!!).
Anyways, let's shut up and watch the new trailer, shall we:
