Michael Mando Proposes Mac Gargan’s Long Road to Venom for the MCU
He framed his Brand New Day cameo as the first of several tragic stages that could use a prior symbiote tease despite unresolved visual and continuity hurdles.
Overview
- Michael Mando reprised Mac Gargan in Spider-Man: Brand New Day and used a Reddit AMA and interviews this week to publicly outline a multi-stage plan to evolve the character into Venom.
- Mando described the film appearance as "level 1" and said Gargan would have at least two more levels including a tragic backstory of a good detective who descends into madness before an ultimate Venom form.
- Reporters note the proposal would give narrative payoff to a fragment of Eddie Brock’s symbiote that was left in the main MCU timeline after Spider-Man: No Way Home.
- Marvel and Sony have made no commitment to Mando’s idea and practical constraints such as how to depict a living symbiote on screen and Brand New Day’s grounded aesthetic remain open obstacles.
- Adapting this arc would require a retcon of Gargan’s MCU history, likely tighter Marvel–Sony coordination, and could shift tone by introducing a far more brutal version of Venom than the Eddie Brock films showed.