One of the vital outstanding villains from Marvel’s previous simply appeared in Marvel’s future and that it’s a little bit confusing. Monday, Sony launched the primary trailer for Venom: The Last Dance, the third, and last, movie within the Venom trilogy. In it, we see a personality performed by actor Chiwetel Ejiofor who, not so way back, performed Baron Mordo in Physician Unusual. Mordo wasn’t in the Strange sequel, so did he go from looking the Sorcerer Supreme to alien symbiotes?
We don’t assume so. io9 reached out to Sony for clarification of the character’s identify and function and has not heard again as of publication. If we hear again later, we’ll replace this put up. With out the info although, we’re pressured to take a position. The internet seems to think he’s a personality named Orwell Taylor, the chief of a navy group known as The Jury from Marvel’s comics, which hunted down the Symbiote. And even when that isn’t true, it makes rather more sense for the actor to be anyone however Mordo on this movie.
The trailer itself toys with this. We see the character, together with one performed by Juno Temple, in some form of large, hidden, underground lab with symbiote-like substances in there. Then he’s in the identical bar the place we final noticed Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) in Spider-Man: No Means Dwelling’s post-credit scene, the place Eddie left a bit of symbiote within the Holland Spider-Man universe earlier than going again to his personal. (Eddie’s universe additionally briefly appeared in Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse by way of Peggy Lu’s Mrs. Chen, who reveals up right here.) Ejiofor’s character captures the goo alongside the Tony Stark stan bartender performed by Cristo Fernández.
Now, so far as we knew, the bartender and the drop of goo are in the primary MCU universe. Baron Mordo exists in that universe. Did Mordo have an equivalent twin? Did somebody at Sony overlook how No Means Dwelling ended and get it improper? Might the trailer be a purposeful decoy or are we not alleged to query it in any respect?
There’s additionally the added thriller of Rhys Ifans showing briefly within the trailer. Ifans, finest identified for his breakout function in Notting Hill, performed Dr. Connors aka The Lizard within the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man movies, earlier than reappearing in No Means Dwelling. Is Ifans taking part in Connors right here? Or simply one other occasion of oddball casting? We don’t know. Sadly, we nonetheless don’t know who Chiwetel Ejiofor is taking part in in Venom: The Final Dance. Nevertheless, we predict it’s extremely unlikely he’s Mordo, more likely he’s actually anybody else, and the casting was a lot much less involved about MCU continuity than it was with superior actors being within the movie. Or, perhaps, that not less than two actors from different multiverses (Ifans and Ejiofor) showing as new folks is a few kind of commentary on that.
If we discover out extra, we’ll let you recognize. Although we’d simply have to attend to see till Venom: The Final Dance hits theaters on October 25.
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