Towards the end of Sony Picture’s newest Marvel movie “Kraven the Hunter,” the titular anti-hero — played with maximum abdominal musculature by Aaron Taylor-Johnson — experiences a chilling hallucination in which he’s surrounded by a horde of spiders. It is a clear allusion to the character’s greatest nemesis in the Marvel comics, Spider-Man.
It is also almost certainly the closest the character (or, at least, Taylor-Johnson’s version of him) will ever get to confronting the web-slinger.
“Kraven” is projected to take in one of the lowest-ever opening weekends for a Marvel superhero film, making it the third of Sony Pictures’ unsuccessful attempts to spin-off a secondary Spider-Man character into its own movie franchise, following 2022’s “Morbius” with Jared Leto and last February’s “Madame Web” with Dakota Johnson. The looming box office…
