Morbin’ time might lastly be over. No extra researching spiders within the Amazon. Venom has been stung. And Kraven is, apparently, now not what Sony is cravin’. This week marks the discharge of Kraven the Hunter, the long-awaited movie about considered one of Spider-Man’s most well-known villains, performed by Aaron Taylor-Johnson. It’s the most recent in an ongoing collection of Spider-Man adjoining movies Sony has been releasing over the previous few years—however now, it appears, that point has handed.
The Wrap experiences that after this week’s launch of Kraven, “the longer term seems to lie in initiatives extra immediately related to Spider-Man himself.” What precisely does that imply? Well, primarily there’s Spider-Man 4, the Tom Holland sequel to the mega smash Spider-Man: No Way Home, which is scheduled for launch July 2026. But there’s additionally Spider-Man Noir, the Nicolas Cage collection starring the Oscar winner as an older, multiverse model of the character, in addition to Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, the third and ultimate movie within the groundbreaking animation collection. All of these are within the works and coming quickly.
What’s not coming quickly then—except one thing actually miraculous occurs this weekend, we assume—are any extra Spider-Man movies with out Spider-Man. Films that have been as soon as known as the “Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters” or SPUMC for brief, and later the Sony Spider-Man Universe. That’s movies like Morbius, Madame Web, Venom, and this weekend’s Kraven the Hunter (which apparently received’t have an end-credit scene linking it to different films). Venom was a shocking hit for the studio, spawning two sequels, however the latest third entry closed that collection out. Morbius and Madame Web have been spectacular failures in principally each means and whereas the jury continues to be out on Kraven the Hunter, the dangerous style from the remainder of these films is bound to do some harm.
But possibly Kraven the Hunter has an enormous weekend although and we see him once more sooner or later. Probably not, however possibly. However, even when that occurs, it wouldn’t and couldn’t be till in spite of everything the remainder of the Spider-Man initiatives come first, which would be the first time in a very long time Sony’s Spider-Man Universe is nearly Spider-Man himself.
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