It’s been rumored since day one that Riz Ahmed could be playing Cletus Kasady in the forthcoming Venom, the first of many dark Spider-Man spinoff films. It would have been a major role being that Kasady becomes Carnage, the supervillain who becomes the arch nemesis of both Peter Parker and Eddie Brock/Venom.
Well, Atlanta Filming shared a photo from the set that shows Ahmed as Dr. Carlton Drake, a Life Foundation employee who was able to surmise that the Venom symbiote contained five more “seeds” (Agony, Lasher, Riot, Phage, and Scream), and subsequently extracts them.
The film is rumored to follow two famous “Venom” storylines from the comics, one which gives birth to five more symbiotes, and another that sets up Venom to battle an all-out symbiote war.
While Drake (to my knowledge) doesn’t become a symbiote, it’s still quite possible that Ruben Fleischer‘s film adaptation turns him into Carnage anyway. This is Venom‘s biggest mystery as filming has been underway for over a month now. Who is Carnage?!
Tom Hardy stars as the title antihero alongside Woody Harrelson, Michelle Williams, and Jenny Slate.
Venom hits theaters on Oct. 5, 2018.
