Venom: Let There Be Carnage has been voted one of the most anticipated 2021 sequels. The Tom Hardy movie was originally slated to come out in October of this year, but due to COVID-19, production was shut down forcing Sony Pictures to move the release date to June of 2021.
The Twitter account for Fandom asked users to pick their top three most anticipated sequels for 2021 and Venom became a trending topic as a result.
Anticipation for the Venom sequel shouldn’t be all that surprising considering the first movie earned more than $800 million worldwide. But when you compare it to the other sequels coming out next year, the love for Venom is a bit staggering.
Here are the current release dates for upcoming sequels in 2021: Vin Diesel and John Cena’s Fast 9 (April 2), Keanu Reeves’ Matrix 4 (May 21), Jurassic World: Dominion (June 11), Venom 2 (June 25), and the LeBron James and Looney Tunes-starring Space Jam: A New Legacy (July 16). The back half of the year list includes: Spider-Man 3 (November 5), Warner Bros.’ Fantastic Beasts 3 (November 12), the Tom Cruise led Mission: Impossible 7 (November 19), the James Cameron-directed Avatar 2 (December 17) and Robert Downey Jr’s Sherlock Holmes 3 (December 22).
At first glance, it might seem shocking that Venom: Let There Be Carnage is more popular than a lot of these movies. But when it comes to anticipation for follow-ups, it’s all about how well the previous entry did.
The premise and cast for Jurassic World: Dominion should build hype. Sam Neill and Laura Dern are reprising their roles alongside Jeff Goldblum and based on Chris Pratt’s comments about the story, it’s shaping up to be an epic conclusion to this new trilogy. But Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom was not a memorable entry in the franchise which should turn off some casual moviegoers.
The Fantastic Beasts series is the definition of redundancy. The second movie received terrible reviews and box office fell by $150 million worldwide. That’s a downward trend that will continue in the wrong direction. Warner Bros. has committed a lot of money to keeping the Harry Potter universe alive. But with not one, not two, but three more sequels coming, I wouldn’t be surprised if this series eventually finds its way to HBO Max considering the future landscape of movie distribution.
You can lump Matrix 4, Space Jam 2, Avatar 2 and Sherlock Holmes 3 into one group. Sequels to dominant franchises that may or may not reel in audiences again. It will have been at least a decade between sequels for all of these series. The studios are certainly banking on nostalgia.
That leaves Fast 9, Spider-Man 3 and Mission: Impossible 7 as the only movies with significant amounts of currency (Both literally and figuratively) heading into their next installment.
Based on these factors, it makes sense that Venom 2 is one of the most anticipated sequels of 2021. Sure, the first movie was goofy but there’s a lot of love and passion for the anti-hero. Plus, you never know what Hardy is going to do when he’s in a big movie. Wear a mask, change his voice or jump in a tank of lobsters and start eating them.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage arrives in theaters on June 25th, 2021.
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