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Sony Pictures delays the hunt as ‘Kraven the Hunter’ gets pushed to the end of the year
With delays on their release schedule, it seems like Sony Pictures may be reconsidering its Spider-verse related projects like ‘Kraven the Hunter’ and ‘Madame Web’.
It seems like ‘Kraven the Hunter’, the next movie in the Sony Pictures Spider-verse, is having a bit of a rough path to release, as it has suffered a new delay. Previously set to come to theaters this summer, it will instead do so during December of this year, occupying the date that was established for’ The Karate Kid’...which consequently is also delayed.
‘Kraven the Hunter’ will now be released on December 13, a date that was previously reserved for ‘The Karate Kid’, with Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio, which in turn is delayed until May 30, 2025. The Aaron Taylor-Johnson film has already suffered several delays, since as its original plans were to have been released on October 2023.
Indecision at Sony regarding its Spiderverse
The reasons for this delay have not been specified, but there could be some concern at Sony Pictures after the disaster at the box office of ‘Madame Web’. In fact, although ’Venom’, ‘Venom: There Will Be Carnage’ and ‘Morbius’, are part of the same Spiderverse, Sony has stated that both ‘Kraven the Hunter’ and ‘Venom: The Last Dance’, as well as the aforementioned ‘Madame Web’, are not tied to this universe, but are projects separate from any common thread.
“There may be some hesitation to emphasize the interconnectedness of these movies,” said Jeff Gomez, an executive at Starlight Runner, a company that worked with Marvel on ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’. “They’ve talked about it before, and it didn’t work out.”
“From a young age, Sergei Kravinoff (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) was trained to become a ruthless hunter in search of his coveted trophy. From the day young Sergei looked death in the face, he saw his true self,” the official synopsis reads. “Now transformed into Kraven the Hunter, and endowed with an animal connection that links him to predators and other beings of the animal kingdom, he is capable of tracking any prey.”
Alongside Taylor-Johnson we’ll see Russell Crowe (Nikolai Kravinoff), Ariana DeBose (Calypso), and Fred Hechinger (Dmitri Smerdyakov/Chameleon).