While developing Carnage for Venom: Let There Be Carnage, director Andy Serkis wanted to ensure that his movements were distinct from those of Venom.

"Venom is... pretty straightforward in a way. He's like a quarterback. He's very grounded, very physically sort of heavy, and like a quarterback where brute force is very much his thing," Serkis told IGN. "Whereas Carnage, in the same way that Cletus is manipulative psychologically and physically, he can take your energy and completely shift it for you. So we wanted the whole movement style to be very idiosyncratic and off-kilter and strange, and you just can't pin him down. It would be like trying to have a fight with an octopus basically."

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To create Carnage's "off-kilter and strange" motions, Serkis and his team worked with a group of dancers and actors on a performance-capture stage to test and build out Carnage's movements. "It was a really exciting period of building the movie actually was Carnage movement tests. That was a really exciting part of it," he added.

Venom: Let There Be Carnage dropped its trailer today, providing a first look at Woody Harrelson's Cletus Kasady, a serial killer who eventually becomes the titular villain. The trailer also showcases the return of Tom Hardy's Eddie Brock, who has formed a strong bond with Venom, and Michelle Williams' Anne Weying.

Carnage is not the only new Symbiote set to appear in the sequel. Serkis also revealed that Shriek will make her big-screen debut when Let There Be Carnage hits theaters on Sept. 17. Serkis described her as a "damaged soul" who "really has suffered in her childhood, but there is a real vulnerability about her, and she's in a lot of pain."

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Venom: Let There Be Carnage will be the second film in the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters (SPUMC). Other films in the shared universe include Morbius, Madame Web, Kraven the Hunter and an untitled film directed by Olivia Wilde, which is rumored to be a Spider-Woman project. On the TV side, the studio is working on a TV series centered on Silk.

Directed by Andy Serkis, Venom: Let There Be Carnage stars Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock/Venom, Woody Harrelson as Cletus Kasady/Carnage, Michelle Williams as Anne Weying, Reid Scott as Dr. Dan Lewis, Naomie Harris, Stephen Graham, Sean Delaney and Larry Olubamiwo. The film arrives in theaters Sept. 17.

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Source: IGN