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The internet convinced itself Spider-Man was swinging into “Venom 2” — and nobody at Sony or Marvel ever said so.

Emergency Awesome’s breakdown video, “Venom Spider-Man Casting Announcement Breakdown – Marvel Easter Eggs,” tackles a rumor that spread faster than actual facts: that Andy Serkis’s Venom sequel would introduce a Spider-Man to share the screen with Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock. The theory picked up steam because of one real, verifiable thing — the reworked 2019 Sony-Disney deal — and then ran well past what anyone at either studio had confirmed.

• No official casting announcement for a new Spider-Man in the “Venom” sequel came from Sony Pictures or Marvel Studios.
• Tom Holland remains the live-action Peter Parker/Spider-Man under the Sony-Disney arrangement that folded the character into the MCU.
• Kevin Feige has noted the renegotiated 2019 contract allows Spider-Man to cross between cinematic universes, which is what fueled hope Holland could turn up in Sony’s separate Marvel Universe.

Origin of the Persistent Rumor

The speculation didn’t come out of nowhere. Sony’s Spider-Man-adjacent slate — the first “Venom” in 2018, the announced Morbius project, and now the Venom sequel — sits in a gray zone next to the MCU proper, and fans have spent months trying to figure out how, or if, those worlds connect. Once word got around that Sony and Disney had reworked their agreement in 2019 to let Spider-Man move between the two setups, it was a short hop for clickbait headlines to claim a Spider-Man cameo was locked for the Venom follow-up.

Some of the wilder versions of the rumor went further, floating the idea that Tom Hardy himself might pull double duty as a new Spider-Man alongside Eddie Brock. Emergency Awesome’s breakdown walks through why that never had a real source behind it — it was internet noise dressed up as a scoop, not a confirmed plot point.

Official Statement From Kevin Feige

The one grounded fact underneath all the noise is Kevin Feige’s own comment on the renegotiated contract: that it opened the door for Spider-Man to appear across cinematic universes. That’s a real, on-record statement, and it’s the reason expectations built around Holland possibly showing up in Sony’s non-MCU Marvel movies. It is not, however, the same thing as a casting announcement for “Venom 2,” and the video is careful to separate the two.

No official casting announcement was made by Sony Pictures or Marvel Studios — Tom Holland remained the only live-action Spider-Man on the books.

The Woody Harrelson Piece of the Puzzle

While the Spider-Man chatter dominated headlines, the breakdown also digs into what was actually confirmed for the sequel: Woody Harrelson stepping into the role of Cletus Kasady, the character who becomes Carnage. That casting, along with Andy Serkis directing, is the real production news driving the movie forward — a much firmer foundation than any unverified Spider-Man rumor, and the kind of detail that’s easy to lose track of when a fake casting story goes viral. For a wider look at what else was locked in around this stage of the film, the confirmed details around Venom 2’s official title are worth checking against the speculation.

Separating Confirmed News From Fan Theory

The throughline of the video is a simple reminder for anyone following Marvel news in early 2020: a studio’s contract language opening a door is not the same as a studio walking through it. Sony and Disney’s revised deal made a Holland cameo in Sony’s Marvel Universe plausible down the line, but plausible isn’t confirmed, and nothing filed by either studio put a Spider-Man — new, alternate, or Hardy in a wig — into the “Venom” sequel’s cast list.

Whatever ends up happening with Spider-Man crossing into Sony’s corner of the Marvel Universe, it hasn’t happened yet as of this breakdown — the only Spider-Man on record is still Tom Holland, and the only new cast confirmation for the Venom sequel is Woody Harrelson as Cletus Kasady. Everything else is theory until Sony or Marvel says otherwise.