The director from the Netflix movie “Triple Frontier” will lead the upcoming “Kraven the Hunter” movie, which focuses on one of Spider-Man’s greatest foes…
The upcoming Spider-Man spinoff film focused on Kraven the Hunter has found a director.
J.C. Chandor — who most recently directed the heist movie “Triple Frontier” for Netflix — has been tapped as director for the latest film set in the Spider-Verse at Sony focusing on one of the webslinger’s greatest foes. Richard Wenk, who wrote “The Equalizer” reboot, is penning the script.
Sergei Kravinoff — better known as Kraven the Hunter — was a Russian aristocrat, who eventually became one of the world’s greatest hunters and he later traveled to Africa where he started taking down big game with his bare hands. Eventually, Sergei met a voodoo witch who gave him a potion that enhanced his natural abilities and allowed him to live longer as well.
In his most famous story dubbed “Kraven’s Last Hunt,” the infamous villain became bored with hunting animals and it was suggested to him that he should go after even bigger game — namely Spider-Man. After being bested by him in hand-to-hand combat, Kraven eventually turns to a gun, which he uses to shoot Spider-Man, incapacitating him and then burying the hero alive. Kraven then wears a copy of Spider-Man’s costume and he takes his place as a hero in New York, except he’s much more brutal in his tactics to take criminals off the streets. He eventually catches a criminal named Vermin, who Spider-Man could not capture on his own.
Believing that he proved a point by doing Spider-Man’s job better than he could, Kraven returns to confront his old enemy, who has dug himself out of the grave after it is later revealed that he was shot with a tranquilizer rather than a bullet. Kraven tells Spider-man that his job is done and his hunting days are behind him but he releases Vermin so the webslinger is forced to go after him. As for Kraven, he returns home where he pens a suicide note confessing to his crimes while impersonating Spider-Man and then declares that now feels at peace with his life before killing himself with a rifle.
It’s nearly impossible to know how “Kraven the Hunter” will be adapted into film form, especially given the likelihood that Tom Holland probably won’t actually appear as Spider-Man. That said, Sony has doubled down on their Spider-Man related properties with a pair of “Venom” movies starring Tom Hardy as well as the upcoming “Morbius” film starring Jared Leto.
There’s also a new female led Spider-Verse movie coming from director Olivia Wilde as she’s expected to tackle Spider-Woman with her movie.
There’s no word when “Kraven the Hunter” will begin casting but now that a director has been chosen, it probably won’t take long for that process to start.
