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Sony finally slapped a title on Venom 2 — and immediately regretted giving Twitter something to do with it.

On April 21, 2020, Sony Pictures ended months of guessing games by officially naming its Venom sequel “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” pairing the announcement with a short teaser and, less happily, a release date shuffle. The studio pushed the film from its original October 2, 2020 slot all the way to June 25, 2021, citing the same coronavirus-driven calendar chaos that was rearranging every studio’s schedule that spring. The title itself is a direct callback to the first film’s mid-credits stinger, in which Woody Harrelson’s Cletus Kasady snarls, “When I get outta here… and I will… There’s gonna be carnage.”

• Sony officially titled the sequel “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” on April 21, 2020, and delayed its release from October 2, 2020, to June 25, 2021.
• The subtitle lifts Cletus Kasady’s mid-credits line from the 2018 “Venom,” which grossed over $800 million worldwide.
• Andy Serkis directs from Kelly Marcel’s script, with Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Reid Scott, and newcomer Naomie Harris as Shriek.

The Title Fans Didn’t See Coming

Cletus Kasady’s Carnage was never a secret — he showed up in that mid-credits scene back in 2018 promising exactly the chaos the sequel’s title now spells out in neon. What caught fans off guard wasn’t the character reveal, since Woody Harrelson’s casting as Kasady had long been public knowledge, but the decision to build the entire subtitle around his catchphrase rather than just calling the movie “Venom 2.” Per The Hollywood Reporter’s report on the announcement, Sony leaned all the way into the melodrama instead of playing it safe.

The teaser itself was brief, but it did the job Sony needed: confirm the villain, confirm the title, and remind everyone the symbiote sequel was still coming, delay or no delay. Anyone curious about the studio’s back catalog of comic-book swings can find more of that lineage in the Morbius teaser trailer, part of the same Sony-owned Spider-Man universe experiment.

Twitter Splits Down the Middle

The reaction was instant and, predictably, split into two loud camps. User Primate_X captured the skeptics’ side bluntly: “Why do these movies have such dumb subtitles? Just name it Venom 2 and be done with it.” Other detractors piled on, comparing the phrase to a tagline rather than a title, with one user calling it “so dumb” and another saying it “sounds like a SNES game and not a good one.”

“Venom: let there be carnage is such a good title I’m shaking.”

That was user LIZZIEMAXIMOFF, representing the camp that thought Sony nailed the tone. Fans on her side argued the over-the-top phrasing fits a franchise that’s never pretended to be anything but gleefully unhinged, and that a subtitle this campy is basically in the spirit of Tom Hardy talking to an alien parasite in a bathroom mirror.

The Production Team Behind the Film

Behind the title fight, the production details had already firmed up. Andy Serkis is directing the sequel from a screenplay by Kelly Marcel, with Tom Hardy back as Eddie Brock/Venom. Michelle Williams returns as Anne Weying, Reid Scott is back as well, and Naomie Harris joins the cast as Shriek — another classic Spider-Man-adjacent comics villain making her live-action debut alongside Harrelson’s Kasady.

Readers tracking Sony’s other genre bets during this stretch of shuffled release dates can check the studio’s full slate of delayed comic-book and action titles in the rundown of big movies still possibly hitting theaters in 2020.

Whichever side of the Twitter argument you landed on, the calendar math is the part that actually matters for fans: “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” wasn’t coming in October 2020 anymore, full stop, and everyone was staring down a June 25, 2021 date instead — with Harrelson’s Kasady still waiting, patiently, to make good on that promise from the first movie’s credits.