Sony prepares a sequel to 'Venom' that will once again star in Tom Hardy

The Sony studio is preparing a sequel to the film Venom, one of the great blockbusters of 2018, which would again feature Tom Hardy as the protagonist, the specialized media Variety reported Monday.

Sources close to the project said that Sony has hired Kelly Marcel, one of the writers of Venom, to write his continuation.

Directed by Ruben Fleischer and inspired by the famous evil of the stories of Spider-Man in the comics of Marvel, Venom told how an organism coming from space granted extraordinary powers to the journalist Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), who was going through a delicate moment in his life after the break with his fiancée Anne Weying (Michelle Williams).

Although it did not receive particularly good reviews, the film has so far raised 855.6 million dollars worldwide that place it as the sixth highest grossing film of 2018, according to the data from the specialized portal Box Office Mojo.

Along with Tom Hardy, co-star Michelle Williams and Woody Harrelson, who appeared in the first feature film in a small scene after the credits, would also return to the second part of Venom.