Venom 2's Andy Serkis is confident there will be a third movie

Venom: Let There Be Carnage's Andy Serkis is "sure" there will be another sequel – and if there is, he'd be keen to return as director.

The recent follow-up sees Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy, reprising his role from the 2018 original) and the titular alien symbiote face off against a chaotic spawn of the latter's, after it latches itself onto serial killer Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson) and breaks him out of prison.

The Greatest Showman's Michelle Williams, No Time To Die's Naomie Harris, Veep's Reid Scott and Line of Duty's Stephen Graham round out the cast.

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Ahead of the movie's home entertainment release, the Lord of the Rings star was asked whether he'd want to be involved if a future instalment were to be given the go-ahead, to which he replied: "I mean, yeah, of course.

"It's such a wonderful world to play in. I'm sure there will be [more], I'm sure there will be. Well, hopefully…. I don't want to count our chickens," he told Metro. "But yeah, of course. It was such a fun world to play in."

Talking to Digital Spy back in October, Hardy revealed that there are already "plans" when it comes to Venom 3, despite the fact that another film has yet to be greenlit.

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"These things [usually] come in threes," he explained. "If there's going to be a new one – and they depend heavily on the success of each individual one, so you can't count on them ever happening again – everyone has got to be as if it was the last one.

"But I think it's really important, if you go into something, thinking that one, two and three are the same... the same story, the same film. So that you don't surprise yourself by being caught out by suddenly having to do a third from nowhere."

Venom: Let There Be Carnage is out now in the UK and the US.