Tom Hardy’s Venom will be a performance-captured CG character

While I have my concerns about all the planned Spider-Man spin-offs in the works, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t excited about Venom, and that’s due in large part to Tom Hardy stepping into the role. He’s proven to be a flexible actor, and I wouldn’t put it past him to play both Venom and its human host, Eddie Brock, with aplomb. But while he will be playing the symbiote-powered anti-hero, it seemed likely at the outset that the character would be CGI-enhanced in some pretty significant ways.

Thanks to Gollum himself, Andy Serkis, we now have some confirmation that that performance will be motion-captured and not built from CGI wholesale.

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— Venom Movie (@VenomMovie) October 24, 2017

Speaking to Yahoo! UK, Serkis happened to mention that Hardy “is playing a new character using performance capture.” With the nature of the character in mind and a look at Hardy’s upcoming films, and the fact that Venom has just gone into production, it seems like a given that Serkis is talking about that role in particular.

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