Earlier today it was announced that production has got underway on Sony’s Spider-Man spinoff Venom, but don’t expect to get a glimpse of Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock suited up as the antihero through any set photos, as it has been revealed that he is portraying the fan favourite character via performance capture technology.

The news was revealed by performance capture specialist Andy Serkis, who told Yahoo Movies that: “The time has come that people understand that performance capture is a technology, not a genre of acting. Acting is acting, and the more actors – like Steve Zahn… and Karin Konoval who plays Maurice in War For The Planet of the Apes – the more A-list actors that come on board, like Mark Rylance playing The BFG, or a lot of actors in the new Marvel films… Tom Hardy is playing a new character using performance capture. It all points up ‘what is the nature of acting?’ and there is no difference between acting wearing a costume and make up, or wearing a motion capture suit. That’s plain and simple, it just needs awarding bodies to understand that.”

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Venom is set for release on October 5th 2018, and sees Tom Hardy joined in the cast by Riz Ahmed, Michelle Williams, Jenny Slate, Reid Scott and Scott Haze.