Hardy, who starred as Batman villain Bane in 2012’s “Dark Knight Rises” and was nominated for an Oscar for his recent work in “The Revenant”, is reportedly a huge fan of Venom, with Sony posting an image of Hardy proudly sporting a “Venom” t-shirt via its Twitter account today to announce the news.
The Venom film will be one of the first in a series of Marvel and Spider-Man-based universe movies that Sony has in store, with the studio also developing a Silver Sable/Black Cat project among others to be based around characters from the Spider-Man stable.