While Friday was a relatively quiet day for big screen news coming out of San Diego Comic Con, during the Sony there were a couple of details revealed about their highly anticipated “Tom Hardy in the title role).

Perhaps the biggest news was the reveal that Riz Ahmed, who plays Dr. Carlton Drake, a scientist and philanthropist whose Life Foundation is experimenting with extraterrestrial entities, will also portray Riot, a symbiote like Venom who can hop from person to person. Riot first appeared in the comic book “Venom, Lethal Protector” issue #4 way back in 1993. (Drake was attempting to create a super-powered police force using the alien symbiote. Or something.) So yes, there are more symbiotes in “Venom” than just, you know, Venom!

After screening some blood-splattered footage (in one sequence Venom eats a guy’s head), the cast and crew also teased a possible team-up with Ruben Fleischer said during the . While Hardy chipped in, “Go toe-to-toe with Tom Holland? I’ll have a go!”

So what do you think? Will Spidey show up in “Venom?” And how excited are you to see the ultimate villain appear in his very own film?