Sony Is Making Spider-Man’s Kraven The Hunter Into Kraven The Animal Lover

Sony, in its quest to continue to make the most absolutely baffling superhero movies possible, is making some major changes to Kraven the Hunter, the Spider-Man villain that’s the focus of its next major comic book outing.

We are in the post-Morbius era, but we could be barreling toward a fresh new batch of memes with Kraven. Variety, speaking with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who plays Kraven, he describes the character as “an animal lover and protector of the natural world.”

I’m sorry, an animal lover. A protector of the natural world? Are you sure you don’t mean “murderer” and “pillager”? No, apparently not. Because Sony know that the way you can make anyone instantly hated is showing them in a photo with some sort or poor murdered elephant or jaguar or tiger, they figured maybe it was not great to base a movie around a guy who is quite literally known for doing just that.

Okay well they did figure it was good to base a movie around him, but just…change him completely. Kraven the Hunter in the comics is…a hunter. He is known for hunting the most dangerous game in the world and his entire costume is made out of animal skins, including a lion’s face split in half.

This new idea for the movie version sounds like they’re turning Kraven into some sort of Poison Ivy-but-with-animals, and I can almost guarantee you the cold open of this movie is going to be like, Kraven hunting down a bunch of poachers in the African safari somewhere before they can hunt endangered animals. The idea being that he’s still a hunter just…a hunter of hunters. This continues Sony’s plan of attempting to turn various Spider-Man villains into anti-heroes, which they’ve already attempted successfully with Venom and less so with Morbius, on their way to assembling the Sinister Six in a universe that still does not seem to have its own Spider-Man.

I have very, very little doubt that if Jared Leto’s Morbius was a bomb, Aaron Taylor Johnson, who is an even less-known star, will not be able to make this anti-Kraven Kraven some sort of big box office success. I suppose I could be wrong, but Venom really seems like a fluke at this point, and Sony’s Spider-Man-less Spider-Man plans are getting increasingly bizarre as time goes on. This isn’t even the weirdest concept, as that would be a movie they’re doing for El Muerto, a villain who appears in the entire history of Spider-man comics for like, twelve pages.

We’ll see how Kraven the Animal Lover goes here, but man, Sony, you’re wild.

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