Hot on the heels of yesterday’s news that Olivia Wilde will direct one of the Sony-Marvel projects (most likely “Spider-Woman”), filmmaker J.C. Chandor (“A Most Violent Year,” “All is Lost”) has begun talks to direct the “Kraven the Hunter” film at Sony Pictures.
“The Equaliser” scribe Richard Wenk is penning the film about the famed “Spider-Man” villain, a Russian aristocrat named Sergei Kravinoff who became obsessed with big game hunting and eventually develops superpowers after taking a voodoo elixir.
He’s most famous for the storyline “Kraven’s Last Hunt” which sees him successfully incapacitating and burying Spider-Man alive, then he takes on his suit and starts hunting down criminals. Ultimately having shown himself to be the greatest ‘hunter’ and with nothing left to prove or new challenges ahead, he commits suicide – a very rare event in comic book fandom.
Matt Tolmach and Avi Arad will produce. Chandor most recently helmed Netflix’s “Triple Frontier” and this would mark his first time taking on major studio tentpole.
This would mark the latest project in the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters (S.P.U.M.C.), Sony is quickly building up its slate following the success of “Venom” with both the Jared Leto-led “Morbius” and a “Venom” sequel on the way, along with a “Madame Webb” movie, a “Jackpot” movie, the aforementioned Olivia Wilde film and another “Spider-Man” film incoming. Soon there’ll be S.P.U.M.C. everywhere.
Source: Deadline
