Likewise, even though the design does not straightforwardly adapt Venom's classic spider emblem, he does have some white-coloured veins in roughly the same place. Similarly, while he never attached to Peter to absorb spider-powers, Venom comes up with some workarounds to mimic Spider-Man's abilities like web-swinging (turning his own tissue into tentacles that shoot like webs) and wall-crawling (just clawing violently up said walls). Most impressively, Venom seems to already have a Spider-Sense, despite not copying it from Peter Parker, as he often warns Eddie of danger several seconds in advance. Davis, Rebecca (October 27, 2020). "China's Tencent Confirms Taste for International Film-Making". Variety. Archived from the original on October 31, 2020 . Retrieved November 11, 2020. John DeFore (September 30, 2021). " 'Venom: Let There Be Carnage': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on October 1, 2021 . Retrieved October 1, 2021. Kennedy, Michael (May 12, 2021). "Venom 2's Trailer Wisely Avoids The Mistake The First Movie's Teaser Made". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on May 12, 2021 . Retrieved May 15, 2021.

Mancuso, Vinnie (April 21, 2020). " 'Venom: Let There Be Carnage' Is the Perfect Title for a Beautifully Stupid Franchise". Collider. Archived from the original on April 22, 2020 . Retrieved April 23, 2020. Eddie gets outraged when Dan (Anne's new boyfriend) shows him scans that Venom was eating through his body out of hunger since Venom hasn't eaten for a while. Venom pulls an Oh, Crap! by defending that he can make up for that through his regenerative abilities. Bastardly Speech: Carlton Drake gives a lot of these. Most obviously, he does this with the first test subject, Isaac, going into a long monologue about how he appreciates the biblical Isaac for being willing to be sacrificed to God and connecting it with his "willingness" to be a test subject. And then he releases the symbiote.Aliens Speaking English: Justified for the symbiotes. They are only heard speaking when bonded to a human host, and being bonded to a host gives the symbiote full access to all of the host's memories and skills, including complete fluency in the host's native language. Evangelista, Chris (June 10, 2020). "Upcoming Sony IMAX Releases Include 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife', 'Venom 2', 'Morbius', and 'Uncharted' ". /Film. Archived from the original on June 12, 2020 . Retrieved June 12, 2020. Busch, Anita (August 4, 2014). "Sony Launches Female Superhero Movie Mining Spider-Man Universe". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on May 26, 2017 . Retrieved May 20, 2017. Adaptational Badass: In the comics, Riot was merely The Brute to the Life Foundation's symbiote squad and not particularly powerful - all he could do was shapeshift his limbs into blunt weapons like hammers and maces. Here, he is on his own, but is upgraded to Big Bad in this movie, not only being able to shapeshift into sharp objects and being more deadly, but also being Venom's superior in power. Post-production for the film began shortly before many film productions were forced to shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with Serkis beginning work editing the film in London with the editorial department. Once post-production had to be shut down, the film's editor returned to the United States and began working with Serkis remotely to finish editing the film. [57] The initial director's cut for the film was around 10 or 15 minutes longer than the final runtime, with Serkis wanting the film to be shorter than expected to make it a "real thrill ride" and to try get to Carnage's introduction with as little exposition as possible. [18]

Heel–Face Turn: Venom, at first, is perfectly okay with his species' plan to assimilate all life on Earth. It's only after he takes a good look at the beauty of the cityscape and finds himself to be like Eddie that he decides to take a different path.Venom was intended by Sony to be the start of a new shared universe, and plans for a sequel began during production on the first film. Harrelson was cast to make a brief appearance as Cletus at the end of Venom, with the intention of him becoming the villain Carnage in the sequel. Official work on the sequel began in January 2019, with Hardy and Harrelson confirmed to return along with Marcel as writer. Serkis was hired as director that August, partly due to his experience working with CGI and motion capture technology, which was an important part of portraying Venom and Carnage in the film. Filming took place at Leavesden Studios in England from November 2019 to February 2020, with additional filming in San Francisco in February. The title was announced in April 2020. Marco Beltrami was hired to compose the film's score, replacing Ludwig Göransson from the previous film.

In September 2019, Reid Scott was expected to reprise his role as Anne's boyfriend Dan Lewis from the first film. [14] The character Shriek was also expected to appear as the film's secondary villain and a love interest for Carnage. Many different actresses were looked at for the part, [43] before Naomie Harris was cast in the role in mid-October. [11] [12] Stephen Graham had also joined the film, as Detective Mulligan, by the end of the year. [9] [12] Tolmach said there was a chance the sequel could be rated R following the success of the R-rated Joker (2019), as well as previous successful R-rated comic book films such as Deadpool (2016) and Logan (2017). However, Tolmach cautioned that the PG-13 rating of the first Venom had led to box office success and they would not be looking to change the franchise's tone simply because it had worked for others; [44] the sequel ultimately received a PG-13 rating. [45] Tolmach said the biggest lesson learned from the first Venom was that fans loved the relationship between Eddie and Venom, and the sequel would focus more on the two characters together because of this. [46] Serkis described the relationship as the "central love affair" of the film, and explained that the sequence in the film where Venom goes to a rave and talks about the "cruel treatment of aliens" uses imagery reminiscent of LGBTQIA festivals because the sequence is intended to be Venom's "coming-out party". [18] Chinese production company Tencent Pictures co-financed the sequel after previously doing the same for the first film. [47] FilmingCreepy Child: Riot uses a little girl as a temporary host. While it's inside her, she walks around silently, head slightly tilted and wearing a scowl. Weird Crossover: A trailer featuring Joker from Persona 5 was released to help promote this film's Japanese release.