SPOILER WARNING: This article contains major spoilers for Venom: Let There Be Carnage, now in theaters.
While Venom: Let There Be Carnage loses the need to explore the titular antihero's origins as the lethal protector, it did need to introduce the film's bloodthirsty villain, and did so in a creative way.
The scene that shows serial killer Cletus Kasady's upbringing and early life before Carnage was done with an animated story being told to Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) through a postcard he was sent by Kasady. The postcard was written with a spiral appearance, tiny sketches and accompanied by a squashed spider, the text on the card so small that Venom asked Eddie if he was pen pals with an ant. While the scene shows Eddie and Cletus (Woody Harrelson) sitting across from one another as the Tim Burton-style animation plays in the background, director Andy Serkis revealed in an exclusive interview with CBR that the original plan for the scene delved more into the characters' comic book roots.
"We had it in the script that we would suddenly go into comic book panels to show the back history of Cletus' life and really just trying to understand a little bit of how and why he has become who he is, but going to comic book panels felt like the wrong route," Serkis said. "We'd already established that Cletus has this feverish kind of methodology of drawing out his pain, literally sketching it out on the walls of the cells, and that it's a form of exorcism for him. So I was very keen to try and have all of the information that was contained in his backstory come out of his artistic expression and tying it in with his message to Eddie Brock."
An important moment early on in the film is when Eddie Brock speaks to Kasady one more time at the killer's request, giving Eddie and Venom a look at his prison cell, the walls covered in his demented drawings. One of these drawings causes Venom to realize where the murderer's victims were buried, the discovery to the public being the direct cause of Kasady being given the death penalty. Cletus mailed the postcard to Eddie as a part of his frustration and rage towards his impending doom, blaming Eddie for his demise soon to come.
Serkis discussed how important it was for the scenes to link better together in the way that was eventually chosen, rather than comic book panels that might seem out of place. "That was an area where I felt it was important -- we couldn't be on the outside looking in at a load of comic book panels to explain that. It had to come from from inside his head."
Directed by Serkis and starring Hardy and Harrelson, Venom: Let There Be Carnage is now available in theaters.
Source: CBR
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