The character, born Sergei Nikolaievich Kravinoff, was initially depicted as a tenacious trophy hunter of dangerous game, the deadlier the better a trade for which he is more than prepared physically, especially after black magic and Voodoo potions enhanced him with beastly apex predator-level speed, strength and reflexes. ![]() After all, Kraven is a clear A-list villain from the almost-sixty-year annals of Spider-Man’s comic book exploits, having debuted in 1964’s The Amazing Spider-Man #15. If the writers were forced to carry on Spidey’s cinematic legacy without acknowledging his firmly-established MCU ties, then they could have done worse than having Kraven the Hunter as the main villain. Fortunately, they came to their agreement before we were too far down any road, and we were able to jump right in with the old team.” “Then it creates possibilities and spurs all sorts of creative discussions. “It was like any time you have a limitation thrown on you,” adds Sommers. “We were taking meetings about it, and going, ‘Well, what would this movie be if it wasn’t in the MCU?’,” recalls McKenna of the process that briefly considered a Kraven movie villain run. While said crisis was resolved a month later, screenwriters Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers reveal to Variety how the third solo film initially adhered to the studio split, resulting in, among other plans, a non-MCU version in which Spidey tangles with comic villain Kraven the Hunter. However, the conception of the health-crisis-era release’s fantastical plot occurred at the height of a different kind of crisis, in summer 2019, during which a spat over shared profits saw character licensee Sony withdraw Tom Holland’s Spider-Man from the MCU. Spider-Man: No Way Home successfully promoted its returning villainous ghosts (so to speak,) of Spider-Man iterations past, and implicitly teased even more universe-shattering surprises, on which it delivered-we’ll just leave it at that. ![]() However, it appears that slimmer, multiverse-deprived ideas were originally planned for the threequel during a brief period of panic in which Spider-Man seemed destined to leave the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now that Spider-Man: No Way Home has swung its way to theaters armed with an array of revelations, it’s practically unfathomable that collaborative companies Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios envisioned anything short of its stupendous scope.
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