Venom: The Last Dance (2024) is a superhero film adapted from Marvel Comics, directed by Kelly Marcel and starring Tom Hardy and Chiwetel Ejiofor. The film is part of the Sony Spider-Verse and was released by Sony Pictures. Runtime: 1h 49m. Rated PG-13. Audience rating: 6.0/10.
What is Venom: The Last Dance (2024) about?
Eddie and Venom are on the run, hunted by both worlds and backed into a corner with no choice but a devastating decision that will bring their inseparable bond to an emotional end.
Released in 2024, Venom: The Last Dance was directed by Kelly Marcel and produced under the Sony Pictures banner. The film occupies a significant place within the Sony Spider-Verse — contributing to the ongoing narrative and mythology of that cinematic universe.
The film features lead performances from Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, among others, anchoring a story that adapts characters first brought to life in Marvel Comics. Its source material gives the film a foundation rooted in decades of published storytelling, which Marcel and the creative team interpret through a cinematic lens.
The film's 6.0 audience rating indicates a mixed response. Even so, it holds interest as part of the broader Sony Spider-Verse catalogue and for how it fits into the lineage of Marvel Comics-based cinema.
What happens in Venom: The Last Dance (2024)? — Full Plot
We open with Eddie Brock and Venom in Mexico, having returned from the multiversal incident in Let There Be Carnage (2021). Eddie and Venom are still partners. They've been on the run from authorities. The film's setting is largely a Mexico-to-Las Vegas road-trip across the American Southwest.
Meanwhile, in the Klyntar homeworld of the symbiotes, Knull — the King of the Symbiotes, the ancient god who created the symbiote race — has been imprisoned in a cosmic prison for millennia. He has been hunting Venom across the universe. Earth is the last refuge.
Eddie and Venom are tracked across the American Southwest by Klyntar bounty hunters — interdimensional creatures called Xenophages who are sent to retrieve Venom and bring him back to Knull. The film's first half is a series of road-movie chases with the bounty hunters interrupting Eddie's attempts at a normal life.
Eddie is captured by Area 51 — the U.S. military's clandestine alien-research facility. There, military forces under General Strickland (Chiwetel Ejiofor) have been studying captured symbiotes. The military intends to weaponize the symbiotes for human soldiers. Eddie and Venom break out, recruiting Dr. Teddy Payne (Juno Temple) — a sympathetic alien-research scientist who has been documenting the captive symbiotes.
Knull's Xenophages eventually arrive in Las Vegas. The Klyntar-Knull contact event coincides with the appearance of meteor-fragment symbiote shards across the city. Various humans are temporarily symbiote-merged in a chaotic Las Vegas action sequence — featuring extras as multiple new symbiote variants.
The climax sees Eddie and Venom permanently separating to defeat Knull's invasion. Venom transfers his consciousness to a wild horse (yes, a literal horse) so that Eddie can be safely returned to a human life. Eddie watches Venom-the-horse gallop away into the desert.
The post-credits scene shows Knull's destruction temporarily set back — but his prison is now leaking. The setup for future films is implicit but no actual sequel is named. Venom: The Last Dance grossed $478 million globally on a $120 million budget — strong commercial success and the trilogy's profitable conclusion. The film closed Tom Hardy's Venom tenure. Sony's animated Spider-Verse films are now the franchise's only active Spider-Man-adjacent IP.
Who stars in Venom: The Last Dance (2024)?
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What are some facts about Venom: The Last Dance (2024)?
Venom: The Last Dance released in 2024, placing it within the 2020s era of comic book cinema — a decade that saw superhero films become the dominant force at the global box office.
Directed by Kelly Marcel, the film was produced by Sony Pictures and adapts source material from Marvel Comics.
The principal cast features Tom Hardy and Chiwetel Ejiofor, with key supporting roles played by Juno Temple, Rhys Ifans.
The film belongs to Sony Spider-Verse — Sony Pictures' Spider-Man adjacent film universe.
Venom: The Last Dance carries an audience rating of 6.0 — a middling reception but one that hasn't prevented its cultural footprint.
The Marvel Comics source material for Venom: The Last Dance has been in continuous publication for decades, giving filmmakers a rich well of storylines, character arcs, and iconography to draw upon.
Modern superhero films like this one use a mix of practical effects and digital VFX, with entire sequences often shot against volume walls or LED stages pioneered by shows like The Mandalorian.
Venom: The Last Dance is catalogued on Movies on Comics among our collection of 162 comic book films spanning 48 years of cinema — from Richard Donner's 1978 Superman to the present day.
