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Venom: Let There Be Carnage director Andy Serkis explains why the movie’s original release date would’ve always been ‘nigh on impossible’ to hit.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage director Andy Serkis was actually grateful for the film’s delayed release date.
The Venom sequel was originally scheduled to arrive in October 2020 but was subsequently pushed back multiple times by the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. It ultimately bowed in theaters on Oct. 1 and wound up enjoying a record-breaking opening at the pandemic-era box office. As Serkis informed the ReelBlend Podcast, this also benefited the movie from a creative perspective.
“The original release date was nigh on impossible,” he explained. “I’ll be truthful. We finished the last visual effects shot last week. We’ve just kept refining, kept refining… It would’ve been a much poorer movie visually because there was so much to do. You know, the ambition for it was huge, and the time was not really long enough to really execute it.”
“Then, of course, all the visual effects work,” he added. “The visual effects team is sprawling across the planet and the animators and the CG artists and the visual effects supervisor, producers, all in different places in the world. We just had to be disciplined about how we review the shots.”
Far from a stranger to the world of visual effects, Serkis made his name as a motion capture actor in the 2000s and early 2010s, bringing CG characters like Gollum, King Kong and Caesar from the Planet of the Apes films to life. And although he has continued to act since then, including playing Alfred Pennyworth in Matt Reeves’ upcoming The Batman, Serkis has begun to focus more on directing of late by helming films like Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, a live-action/CGI re-imagining of Rudyard Kipling’s classic stories from The Jungle Book.
Let There Be Carnage has gotten a slightly better critical response that Legend of the Jungle and currently holds a 58 percent “Rotten” score after 155 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. All the same, that’s nearly double the critical score the first Venom movie earned on the website, with CBR‘s Brandon Zachary praising the film and its “gonzo sense of humor” in his review.
Tom Hardy stars in Venom: Let There Be Carnage opposite Woody Harrelson, Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris and more. The film is now playing in theaters.
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