Trivia / Venom: Let There Be Carnage

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• Acting for Two: Cletus Kasady and the Carnage symbiote are both played by Woody Harrelson. And just like the prequel, the same goes in foreign dubs, excluding Japanese.
• Actor-Inspired Element: Woody Harrelson had a big voice in deciding Cletus' wardrobe, and also insisted his hair be more realistic, having hated his wig in the first film as much as everyone else.
• B-Team Sequel: Andy Serkis takes over directing duties from Ruben Fleischer, who was still working on Zombieland: Double Tap when Sony wanted to start work on Let There Be Carnage. Flesicher has said he was satisfied with Serkis' hiring, having moved on from wanting to work on the film after the poor critical reaction to Venom.
• Celebrity Voice Actor: In the Japanese dub, Carnage (the symbiote, not Cletus, which is voiced by Naoya Uchida instead) is voiced by the Kabuki and TV actor Kataoka Ainosuke VI, who some Tokusatsu fans can recognize him as Kohgane/Kamen Rider Mars in Kamen Rider Gaim. Curiously enough, Uchida himself is also a toku actor, as he played Tatsuya Midorikawa in Denshi Sentai Denziman.
• Dawson Casting: Cletus was shown to be a teenager in 1996 during the prologue. This would presumably put him in his late-30s/early-40s in 2020, the year the movie was originally supposed to be released in. Woody Harrelson was 58 when he played Cletus.
• Delayed Release Tie-In: Special Venom-themed Marvel Legends action figures (which, in addition to the title character, featured "Venomized" versions of other Marvel heroes like Captain America, Miles Morales, Spider-Gwen and Deadpool) were released in Fall 2020 to coincide with this film's original October 2020 release date. However, the movie was pushed back to October 2021, ruining any sort of marketing synergy the toys were meant to achieve.
• Fake American: In addition to Tom Hardy, British actors Stephen Graham and Naomie Harris play the Americans Detective Mulligan and Shriek.
• God Does Not Own This World: Kevin Feige does not have a credit on this film, although it briefly visits the Marvel Cinematic Universe at the end.
• In Memoriam: When Eddie enters Mrs. Chen's shop, one of Venom’s tendrils prevents a magazine with the face of the late Stan Lee from falling and puts it back in its place.
• Missing Trailer Scene: Several lines of dialogue were only used in the trailers.
• Refitted for Sequel: In early development, Carnage was intended to be the main antagonist of the first Venom film, but was ultimately written out and replaced with Riot. Woody Harrelson's cameo as Cletus Kasady in the first film's credits scene was added to the film specifically to set up his transformation into Carnage in the sequel.
• Release Date Change: One of many films whose release dates were impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Initially slated for October 2, 2020, the pandemic shifted the release date four times—first to June 25, 2021, then to September 17 of the same year to avoid competition with F9, then to September 24, followed by October 15 after the virus's Delta variant kick-started a new wave of COVID cases. Lastly, it was moved up two weeks to October 1 due to Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings performing well above expectations. As a result of the shuffles, it ended up opening before Morbius (which got pushed back to 2022), rather than after it as initially planned.
• Throw It In!: While Eddie is holed up at Coit Tower trying to find Cletus, several helicopters pass by looking for Venom and Carnage. This was actually not planned; the helicopters flying by were actually part of the shoot for The Matrix Resurrections, which was filming in the same part of San Francisco as Let There Be Carnage during their shoots. Instead of waiting for a clearer shot, Serkis thought it would make sense for helicopters to be roving around during the scene and left it, adding additional dialogue by Hardy in ADR afterward to mention them.
• What Could Have Been: See here
• Word of God:
  • Prior to the film's release, Andy Serkis revealed in a trailer breakdown video that the events of Let There Be Carnage take place one-and-a-half years after the first Venom film.
  • According to a concept artist named Dan LuVisi, Scream was originally going to be one of the antagonists before being changed to Shriek (Frances Barrison).
• Written by Cast Member: Tom Hardy has a story credit.

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