Dread it, run from it… Sony’s plan to make a 3rd Venom film is arriving all the identical. And the studio has determined to advertise from throughout the ranks of those that have been concerned within the symbiote-starring franchise because the starting: Kelly Marcel will direct the following instalment.

Marcel, a longtime artistic collaborator of star Tom Hardy, did script work on the primary movie earlier than she and the actor found out the story for the second and Marcel wrote the screenplay.

She’s additionally been a producer, engaged on the units run by Ruben Fleischer (Venom) and Andy Serkis (Venom: Let There Be Carnage) to assist Hardy give you concepts on the fly.

Fairly what Hardy’s downtrodden journalist Eddie Brock and his flesh-craving, angry-mouthed alien parasite might be as much as this time stays a thriller. However Marcel, who will make her directorial debut with the film, ought to have the cameras rolling subsequent yr.

And it isn’t like she hasn’t been working in films and TV for years – Marcel wrote the likes of Saving Mr. Banks and the primary Fifty Shades Of Gray film earlier than her time on Staff Venom.

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