It’s outside the grocery store that the homeless Maria ( Melora Walters sells him a free newspaper and he’s approached by Life employee Dr Dora Skirth ( Jenny Slate) who’s concerned about Drake’s increasing megalomania. The Chinese grocery store in which Eddie sees the unfortunate owner having to pay protection money, is J&C Foodmart, 68 Peachtree Street SW, Downtown Five Points, Atlanta. It’s a Scots-style pub with not only a good selection of beers but also decent fish’n’chips for ex-pat Brits. Venom location: Unemployed Eddie drowns his sorrows: Edinburgh Castle Pub, Lower Nob Hill, San Francisco | Google MapsĮddie drowns his sorrows, “Ever feel like your life is like one monumental screw up?” in the Edinburgh Castle Pub, 950 Geary Street, between Larkin Street and Polk Street, in Lower Nob Hill. Surprisingly, the amazing ‘tentacled’ wall sculpture which seems designed to foreshadow the alien parasite is a real feature of the restaurant and not dreamed up by the film’s art department.Įddie is seen whizzing round the city’s landmark sights on his Ducati Scrambler – Port of San Francisco, Pier 9 – for his TV show The Eddie Brock Report but, when he crosses the line in an interview with the powerful Drake, he finds himself unemployed. That distinctive interior though is steakhouse STK Atlanta, 1075 Peachtree Street NE. When Eddie and Anne enjoy a romantic dinner at the foot of the Bay Bridge in the Embarcadero District, the restaurant is plainly meant to be classy seafood restaurant Waterbar, 399 The Embarcadero. It’s 1151 Montgomery Street near Green Street toward Telegraph Hill, which happens to be just across the road from the apartment of Det Nick Curran ( Michael Douglas) in Basic Instinct. The Georgia World Congress Center, again, provides the Foundation’s subterranean tunnels.īut it's unmistakably San Francisco when we see the apartment TV reporter Eddie Brock ( Hardy) shares with girlfriend Anne Weying ( Michelle Williams). It’s all CGI of course, but the entrance and lobby is that of the American Cancer Society Center, 250 Williams Street NW, Atlanta, alongside Centennial Olympic Park, and designed by neo-futurist architect John Portman. Venom location: the interior of the 'Life Foundation': American Cancer Society Center, Williams Street, Atlanta | Wikimedia / Matthewrlee The space programme is being run by Carlton Drake ( Riz Ahmed) from his huge 'Life Foundation' facility alongside the Golden Gate Bridge overlooking the Bay on Hawk Hill on the Marin Headlands. The Center soon crops up again in another guise. Later, when the infected woman is wandering around the lounges of 'Sibu Airport, Sarawak', and passes her precious gift on to a little girl bound, inevitably, for San Francisco, that ‘airport lounge’ is actually the Georgia World Congress Center, 285 Andrew Young International Boulevard NW, Atlanta. The old wooden mill, dating from 1830, and its grounds, are used as a frequent film and TV location. After Georgia Power Department cooperatively turned off all the street lamps, the set was illuminated with hundreds of traditional night lanterns. The ‘Malaysian’ village was built on a dirt lot at Rex Mill, Mill Road alongside a bridge over Big Cotton Indian Creek, about ten miles southeast of Atlanta. The ‘East Malaysia’ crash site where a returning spacecraft accidentally releases an alien lifeform, is the woods near Atlanta. It’s set in San Francisco and, true there’s plenty of the Bay area on show, but the production was based at Georgia’s Blackhall Studios, so there’s lots of Atlanta, too. The next addition to the Marvel Universe has its moments, and Tom Hardy is clearly having a ball, but it can’t escape the ‘been here, seen this before’ feeling – the crazed billionaire (who isn’t Elon Musk) conducting iffy experiments which end up endowing a regular guy with extraordinary powers…
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