Farewell, Sony’s Spider-Manless Spider-Man universe. You died like you lived: strange and sloppy. A recent report, published in The Wrap, claimed that the long-delayed Kraven the Hunter will be the final attempt to launch a franchise based entirely around the webbed hero’s gallery of nemeses, now that Tom Hardy has departed the somewhat successful, and occasionally charming, Venom films. Morbius (2022) and Madame Web (2024), meanwhile, bombed at the box office, while seeming to incite their own kind of delirious, widespread hysteria.
Kraven the Hunter is packed to the rafters with the kind of bizarre sights we’ve come to expect from Sony’s Spider-Man Universe (or the SSU): Aaron Taylor-Johnson, shoeless and feral as our titular hero, running around London on all fours and (literally) climbing up the walls; Russell Crowe in a tiny scarf with a Boris-and-Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle-level Russian accent; a CGI bison with the meanest mug you’ve ever seen.
