‘Venom’ at Colombo City Center – Scope Cinemas and Liberty Cinema

‘Venom’ at Colombo City Center – Scope Cinemas and Liberty Cinema

‘Venom’ is showing from 5 October at Colombo City Center – Scope Cinemas and Liberty Cinema, with Dolby atmos sound at Scope Cinema.

‘Venom’ is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Marvel and distributed by Sony Pictures. It is intended to be the first film in Sony’s Marvel Universe. 

The film is directed by Ruben Fleischer from a screenplay by Scott Rosenberg, Jeff Pinkner, and Kelly Marcel, and stars Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock/Venom, alongside Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze, and Reid Scott.

Plot summary: Bioengineering corporation Life Foundation retrieves a spaceship that crash-landed in Malaysia with four extraterrestrial symbiotic lifeforms, although one escapes, and transports them to their research facility in San Francisco. Its CEO, Carlton Drake, becomes obsessed with bonding symbiotes to humans to prepare humanity for Earth’s inevitable ecological collapse, and begins illegally experimenting on vagrants, resulting in numerous deaths – including one of the remaining symbiotes – and attracting the attention of investigative journalist Eddie Brock.

Brock is attacked by mercenaries employed by Drake to retrieve the symbiote, and transforms into a monstrous creature known as “Venom” to repel them and flee to a nearby lighthouse. Brock uses an MRI machine to weaken the symbiote long enough to separate from it, but he is then captured by Drake’s men.

At Life Foundation’s headquarters, Brock learns that Drake has bonded with the fugitive symbiote, and that they are planning to launch a probe into space and bring a legion of symbiotes back to Earth to assimilate the human race.