Rumor: Tom Holland's Spider-Man Will Cameo In 'Venom'

So far, we’ve been getting mixed messages about how connected “Venom” will be Sony‘s Marvel affiliated live-action Spider-Man series, which was launched last summer with “Spider-Man: Homecoming.” Kevin Feige stated plainly that the R-rated movie is not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, producer Amy Pascal has said the complete opposite, while sitting right beside (an admittedly shocked) Feige.

“Both movies will all take place in the world that we’re now creating for Peter Parker. I mean, they’ll be adjuncts to it, there may be different locations, but it will still all be in the same world and they will be connected to each other,” Pascal said in June. So, which way is up?

Well, get out of the grains of salt, because Jon Schnepp has claimed on Collider‘s “Movie Talk” that Tom Holland will be making a cameo as Peter Parker and/or Spider-Man in “Venom.”

“Spider-Man is going to be in ‘Venom.’ For the last couple of months, we’ve been hearing how Sony is keeping it all separated, and Spider-Man is in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but every other character that’s in the Spider-Man universe is separate. All I’m saying is that Spider-Man — and I’m talking about Tom Holland’s Spider-Man — is going to be in ‘Venom,’ ” Schnepp claimed.

Needless to say, there’s all kinds of flags on the field with this news. Would Feige ever agree to loosen up the complicated Sony/Marvel Spider-Man deal to allow Holland to swing into the R-rated “Venom,” a picture that he has no input on? For a guy who has been very deliberate and careful about world-building, it seems unlikely. Not only that, it presumes that every character in “Venom” can slide back into the MCU. This doesn’t make sense, but then again, we never thought we’d see Spider-Man in a Marvel movie, so who knows.

For the record, some of Schnepp’s previous claims have been that George Miller was “doing” the sequel to “Man Of Steel (not true), and that Lawrence Kasdan was writing the “Star Wars” Boba Fett spinoff movie (possibly, but there hasn’t been any word on that proposed project since Josh Trank was booted from it).

“Venom” opens on October 5th.