“It just continued to get funnier and funnier and funnier,” director Kelly Marcel says.
“He was like, ‘This is brilliant.’
He loved it so much.”
Tom Hardy, ‘Venom: The Last Dance’.Courtesy of Sony Pictures
But it’s also how Venom Horse acts as a character in its own right.
“He’s utterly mad.”
“That was the sentence, and then we had to make it real.”
Tom Hardy in ‘Venom: The Last Dance’.Columbia Pictures
A lot of work went into developing and troubleshooting the scene before it was actually shot.
So he took inspiration from Formula One race cars, and another famous alien: the Man of Steel.
“We had the idea of maybe the camera can’t keep up,” Moffatt says.
‘Venom: The Last Dance’.Columbia Pictures
But, it turns out, not even a motorcycle was fast enough.
Then they faced another problem.
Once all the pre-vis development was finished, it was time to shoot the thing.
“The horse was great, actually,” Moffatt says.
“Poor guy,” Marcel says.
We flew him up and slammed him onto the back of one of those."
“As soon as that horse takes off, it becomes a CGI horse,” Marcel says.
He’s flying Superman style, holding on to what are supposed to be tendrils."
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“Then we could really showcase the cool creature and see Tom hanging on the back for dear life.
Hardy’s reactions as Eddie tries to survive this horse ride from hell are just the cherry on top.
“We laughed so much during the making of this,” Marcel says.
And it just continued to get funnier and funnier and funnier.”
Can you blame them?
