Venom 2: Director teases Woody Harrelson’s Carnage in Tom Hardy sequel

Speaking with IGN, he said: “We’d like to think that this movie will expand to other movies and Carnage is, I think, the most beloved of the Venom adversaries, with the exception of probably Spider-Man.

“Now that we’ve established [Eddie and Venom] and grounded them and built their dynamic, now we can pit them against their biggest foe, which is Carnage.

“It’ll be interesting to see how Carnage comes to life in the films.

“In the comics, he’s a spawn of Venom’s and basically he and Eddie in the comics are cell mates and so that’s why we put him in a jail cell and even though Eddie’s not arrested at the movie – because we talked about that.”

The director continued: “Maybe Eddie’s like arrested and he’s in jail and who should be next to him but Cletus Kasady.

“That probably would’ve been the truest to the comic version but I don’t think we wanted Eddie to go to jail at the end of our movie.

“That would’ve been a bit of a bummer. But we did want to have them in jail cell proximity and so we left the door open for how Venom can spawn Carnage and how Cletus might someday become that character.

“When you think about a guy named Cletus, and off the comic book pages what he might be like, this insane serial killer, if you think about Woody in Natural Born Killers and the menace that he brought to that character, I think it’s really exciting to think about him going to that darker place again,

because recently he’s been playing more kind of heroic or comedic parts so to see him going to that kind of darker space, I think, is going to be incredible.”

Despite its mainly poor reviews, Venom is expected to be a box office smash this weekend.

The film may even beat Oscars favourite A Star Is Born to No 1.

Venom is out now.