Amy Pascal Teases the Tom Hardy Venom and Tom Holland Spider-Man Crossover Fans Have Wanted for Years

Marvel and Sony have spent years dangling one of the most requested crossovers in modern blockbuster filmmaking without ever actually delivering it. Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock made a memorable appearance in “Spider-Man: No Way Home’s” post-credits scene, only to be whisked right back to his own universe moments later, leaving fans with nothing but a smear of symbiote residue on a Mexican bar top and years of unanswered questions.

That teaser has since become something of a running joke among fans, especially given how little movement there’s been on the idea since. Hardy’s Venom trilogy wrapped entirely with 2024’s “Venom: The Last Dance,” seemingly closing the book on the character without ever sharing the screen with Tom Holland’s Peter Parker, despite the setup practically begging for a follow-through.

That question resurfaced again while promoting “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” with producer Amy Pascal and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige sitting down with Josh Horowitz on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast. When Horowitz asked how close the two studios had actually come to making the crossover happen, Pascal offered a characteristically coy response: “It would be great, let’s put it that way.”

That comment alone would have been enough to reignite fan speculation, but the exchange kept going. When Horowitz pushed further on whether hope was still alive for the pairing, Feige responded, “Always have hope,” prompting Pascal to double down with “I have hope. We have hope.”

That optimism carries some real weight given Feige’s own history with crossover skepticism, since Marvel’s president is typically careful not to overpromise franchise team-ups that haven’t been formally greenlit. Still, according to ComicBook.com’s account of the same conversation, Feige also offered a more sobering aside during the exchange, jokingly noting that saying otherwise would make him “look crazy,” before eventually conceding a blunter “we have no hope” at another point in the discussion, muddying just how genuine the optimism actually is.

Tom Hardy himself has previously made clear he’d jump at the chance to finally share the screen with Holland. Speaking on The Discourse Podcast in 2025, Hardy revealed just how close the crossover had come to happening at one point, saying, “We got as close as I could possibly imagine getting, apart from doing a film together, which I would have loved to have done because that just means so much fun.”

Beyond the Holland-Hardy speculation, Pascal did confirm one piece of concrete Venom news during the same conversation: an animated Venom film is currently in development at Sony. She didn’t specify whether Hardy would return to voice Eddie Brock in that project, leaving that particular detail as its own open question heading into future updates.

For now, “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” arrives without any Venom appearance, despite an ensemble that already includes Marvel figures like Jon Bernthal’s Punisher and Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk. That absence, paired with the lingering symbiote thread left dangling since “No Way Home,” keeps the door at least symbolically open even without concrete plans in place.

Given how many times Marvel and Sony have revisited this exact question over the past several years without ever committing to an actual project, fans have learned to treat comments like Pascal’s with a healthy dose of skepticism. Still, with both producers unwilling to fully close the door during a high-profile press run, the crossover remains exactly where it’s been since 2021: tantalizingly possible, and entirely unconfirmed

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