"Venom: The Last Dance" has come and gone and with it, Tom Hardy's final solo film as Eddie Brock/Venom in the Sony Spider-Verse. As much as fans wanted it to happen, none of his appearances included any kind of meeting with Tom Holland's Peter Parker/Spider-Man, but according to Hardy the epic meeting came very close to happening.

Tom Hardy says he got close to making a Venom crossover with Tom Holland's Spider-Man before talks fell through.

Ultimately, of course, Hardy’s Venom never did meet Holland’s Spidey. The Discourse Podcast host, Mike DeAngelo, speculated it could have come down to studio politics; without fully conceding, Hardy affirmed carefully to the suggestions, “for all the reasons that you explained ultimately in there.”