Just yesterday it was confirmed that Olivia Wilde will be directing a female-centred Marvel movie for Sony – with rumours of that film being an outing for Jessica Drew’s Spider-Woman – and now comes word that any Sony/Marvel picture has landed a director.
Via Deadline, J.C. Chandor has been hired to direct Sony’s Kraven the Hunter movie that has been in loose development for several years now.
Chandor has most recently directed and co-wrote Netflix’s Triple Frontier, while his other work includes All is Lost, A Violent Year, and nabbing himself a Best Original Screenplay nomination at the 2012 Academy Awards for Margin Call.
As alluded to, a solo movie for Kraven has long been on the table at Sony Pictures. Going back to the days of Andrew Garfield’s The Amazing Spider-Man films, there were constant talks of bringing Kraven into the fold either as the main villain of a Spidey offering, as part of a Sinister Six team-up picture, or in his own solo effort.
Since Sony kickstarted their shared Spider-Verse of movies with Venom, plans have accelerated to flesh out this shared realm with a whole slew of films for various characters synonymous with the world of ol’ Web-head.
Off the top of our head, in addition to Jared Leto’s Morbius and Tom Hardy’s Venom 2, Sony is at work on solo films for Spider-Woman, Black Cat, Silver Sable, Nightwatch, Jackpot, Silk, Madame Web, possibly Aunt May, and, of course, Kraven.
For those maybe not that familiar with Kraven, the character is one of Spider-Man’s greatest foes and one of the longest serving villains in the Wall-crawler’s rogues gallery. Debuting back in 1964’s The Amazing Spider-Man #15, Sergei Kravinoff is the biggest of big game hunters, with his enhanced instincts, extensive physical attributes, and elite level tracking skills making him a serious threat for anyone who ends up in his crosshairs.
Seeing Spider-Man as the ultimate prize, Kraven has long battled Spidey – and famously even got the better of Spider-Man in the iconic Kraven’s Last Hunt story.
While Sony has plans for all of the aforementioned films, one big question that many still have is just whether or not Tom Holland’s Peter Parker will make an appearance in any of these movies.
Sony still hold the cinematic rights to the Spider-Man character, with Sony and Marvel Studios/Disney having come to an arrangement where Web-head can be used in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. To develop a Spider-Verse world without a Spider-Man in it still feels a little strange, but there is still an expectation that somewhere down the line Holland’s Spider-Man will swing by to butt heads with the likes of Kraven, Venom, Carnage, and Black Cat.
