Venom & Spider-Man Crossover Movie ‘Got Close’ To Happening, Says Tom Hardy

A Venom and Spider-Man crossover film was fairly near occurring at one level, based on Venom star Tom Hardy.

What did Tom Hardy say a couple of Venom and Spider-Man crossover?

Throughout a latest look on The Playlist’s The Discourse Podcast, Hardy revealed that at one level, a crossover film that includes each his Venom and Tom Holland‘s Spider-Man “acquired as shut” as he may think about to occurring, earlier than issues sadly fell aside on the end line.

“We acquired shut,” Hardy mentioned of the film. “We acquired as shut as I may probably think about getting, aside from doing a movie collectively, which I might have beloved to have performed as a result of that simply means a lot enjoyable.”

Hardy was requested if it was studio politics that finally killed the chance, and whereas Hardy didn’t straight verify this, he did say that it didn’t occur “for all the explanations that you just defined finally in there.”

“Essentially, for me, it will be for the youngsters,” mentioned Hardy of why he wished to do the film. “As a result of, you recognize, as a lot as adults love superhero movies, as you possibly can inform by the field workplace after they’re profitable, I believe I’m continually reminded by kids how vital these characters are. They usually don’t know why their favourite characters aren’t in movies collectively.”

The potential for a crossover movie between Hardy’s Venom and Holland’s Spider-Man has been one thing followers have been hoping for for a while. Hardy himself had been a champion for the thought for years, though following the 2025 Venom: The Final Dance, it appears as if Hardy has formally retired from enjoying the character.

Regardless of by no means attending to conflict with Spider-Man, Hardy nonetheless mentioned that he felt “actually privileged” to get to do three motion pictures with such an iconic character.

“We got a set of boundaries, and we had been simply actually privileged to have the ability to play with a much-beloved IP like Venom in a method that we had been allowed to play,” Hardy mentioned. “And in that [regard], we did what we may and what we beloved doing. We poured all of ourselves into it inside the limits of what we had been allowed to do with him. And so the enjoyment of the work outweighed the boundaries of our potentialities with him as a result of we simply targeted on what we had been allowed to do. And we beloved doing it.”

(Supply: The Playlist)