Venom 3: How did the previous film with Tom Hardy end?

six years. This is the time Eddie Brock and Venom spend together, in the Marvel saga from Tom Hardy’s Spider-Man catalog (but without Spider-Man). Titled The Last Dance, the third opus, due to hit our theaters on October 30, should complete the trilogy that began in 2018 and continued in 2021, Let There Be Carnage.

If you haven’t seen Andy Serkis’ feature film recently, you might have forgotten what happened in it. Especially since the tidal wave of Spider-Man No Way Home hit theaters around the world a few months later. So here’s a double boost shot (not radioactive), just to get you ready to start Venom 3: a recap of the two scenes you need to remember so you don’t get lost.

At the end of Venom 2…

Let there be carnage, the headline told us. But in a surprise twist in the new film, Venom’s nemesis won’t be coming back as the symbiote was chewed up like gum by Eddie Brock’s alter ego, who then devoured the head of its host Cletus Cassady (Woody Harrelson).

After so much emotion, Eddie and his co-worker decide to take a vacation on Paradise Island, from which they disappear in the blink of an eye during the Venom 2 post-credits scene. The duo reappears in a hotel room where the television shows JJ. Jonah Jameson (JK Simmons) reveals that Spider-Man (Tom Holland) and Peter Parker are one and the same.

Translation: Eddie and Venom landed in the same universe as Spider-Man from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With a magic trick that’s still hard to explain because it takes place in Far From Home at the end, not during Dr. Strange’s failed spell at the beginning of No Way Home, which allows us to open the gate. versatile.

Still, this post-credits scene raised hopes of a summit showdown between Spider-Man and Venom, but the excitement was short-lived.

At the end of Spider-Man No Way Home…

If he’s not in a John Watts movie at all, Tom Hardy is in the post-credits scene. Leaning on the bar, he was clearly impressed to know that there were so many superheroes in the world he had just arrived in. But he will not have the opportunity to meet or confront them.

While he wants to meet Spider-Man, a final spell initiated by Doctor Strange (the one that allows everyone to be sent home and the cracks in the multiverse closed) brings him back to his home world. Not without leaving out the symbiote part that has yet to have ramifications in the MCU.

The plot of Venom: The Last Dance takes place at this moment, when Eddie returns to his house disoriented. The rest in theaters from October 30.