Kraven the Hunter is the flimsiest strand in Sony’s spider-free web

Movie ReviewSony has made bad Spider-Man spinoff movies before, but Kraven the Hunter is another level of terrible.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

Regardless of what the studio insists on calling it internally, Sony’s Spider-Man Universe of live-action features will always be better known as “those Spider-Man spinoffs where Spider-Man never shows up for legal reasons.” Sony’s plan to build an entire franchise out of standalone films about Peter Parker’s nemeses always read as a transparent attempt at riding Marvel Studios’ coattails post-Spider-Man:

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