“ Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse ,” the third entry in Sony’s animated web-slinging trilogy, will swing into theaters… in a few years. It’ll be released on June 4, 2027.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is set to redefine the web-slinger's place in the MCU, with Tom Holland returning as Peter Parker in a fresh start.

Man: Brand New Day, we're bringing you up to speed with that era of Marvel Comics storytelling and what it might mean for the MCU moving forward.

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.”

Tom Hardy appeared on “The Discourse Podcast” from The Playlist and confirmed that a crossover between Venom and Tom Holland’s Spider-Man “got as close as I could possibly imagine getting” before falling apart.