Tom Hardy has a habit of taking on a role and making it a household name, be it Alfie (Peaky Blinders), his role in Mad Max: Fury Road, or his three-installments-long take on Sony’s live-action Eddie Brock. And as much as we’d have liked seeing him in the wider MCU, his three installments, for now, have concluded his run with Sony. While the first two installments have been available to stream on Disney+, the third film was only available to stream on Netflix in select regions, until now, owing to licensing context.
Sony’s wider Spider-Man universe struggled to turn its supporting characters into durable movie franchises, but its symbiote trilogy repeatedly escaped that collapse. The first installment earned $856.1 million worldwide, while the pandemic-era sequel added $506.8 million, and the finale finished with $478.9 million. Together, the three films raked in approximately $1.842 billion, and became the studio’s only completed live-action trilogy from the universe that also produced Morbius, Madame Web, and Kraven the Hunter.
Venom: The Last Dance, therefore, the last chapter in that trilogy, is arriving onDisney+ on August 25. It was written and directed by Kelly Marcel and the 110-minute finale sends Eddie and Venom on the run from both government forces and Xenophages dispatched by Knull, whose escape depends on the Codex created by their bond. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, Stephen Graham, Rhys Ifans, and Peggy Lu join Hardy as the story moves through Mexico, Las Vegas, and Area 51 toward Venom’s apparent sacrifice. Sony officially marketed it as the trilogy’s final film, although its surviving symbiote material and Knull’s unresolved threat leave the wider mythology open beyond Hardy’s completed run.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🏜️Paul Atreides
🖖Capt. Kirk
✊Princess Leia
🔦Ellen Ripley
🔥Max Rockatansky
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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
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What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
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What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
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How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
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You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
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What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
What Happened to the Piece of Venom Left in Tom Holland’s Spider-Man Universe?
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has just crossed the billion-dollar mark in less than a week at the global box office but has refused to answer a billion-dollar question. What happened to that Let There Be Carnage’s post-credits continuation in Spider-Man: No Way Home’s mid-credits scene where a chunk of symbiote remained in Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Peter Parker (Tom Holland)’s universe? Say that five times fast!
At the same time, considering that Tom Hardy’s three installments have put an end to the trilogy, it’ll likely happen somewhere else. It’s just not clear how and where, or whether the Disney-Sony licensing agreements will make any room for it. The Disney+ move for The Last Dance, on the other hand, follows Sony and Disney’s post-pay-one licensing agreement for theatrical releases from 2022 through 2026.
Venom: The Last Dance will stream on Disney+ starting August 25, joining the previous two installments that are already available. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
