While there may still be some life left in Sony Pictures’ SSU, the franchise will receive a primary overhaul (at least) following the abysmal box functionality of the new Spider: Man spin-off without Spider-Man, Kraven the Hunter.
We don’t know how much a new edition of SSU would improve, as it doesn’t seem like the studio’s CEO is willing to admit that the quality of the videos has anything to do with its failure in the BO.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Sony Pictures CEO Tony Vinciquerra admitted that Kraven is “probably the worst release he’s ever had” in his nearly 8 years at the studio. “I still don’t understand it,” he added. Because the film is not bad. “
The movie’s 15% Rotten Tomatoes score would suggest that the majority of critics would disagree.
Spider-Man movies aside, none of the studio’s Marvel-based live-action films have been critical hits, the first two Venom films were box office hits and the recent The Last Dance was much more successful. than Kraven, Morbius and Madame. Web.
“Let’s talk for a moment about Madame Web,” Vinciquerra continued. Madame Web underperformed in the movies because the press simply crucified her. It wasn’t a bad movie and it did very well on Netflix. For any explanation, the press didn’t need us to make those movies based on Kraven and Madame Web, and the critics just destroyed them. They also did it with Venom, but the public enjoyed Venom and it made Venom a huge success. They are not horrible films. They were destroyed by press criticism, whatever the explanation. »
Vinciquerra obviously has the right to his opinion, but he is a little short-sighted and stubborn in not at least acknowledging the option that critics and the public did not like the films because. . . they are not very good.
Sony insiders have said that the studio will be “more discerning about which — if any — of the studio’s stable of Spider-Man characters should be elevated into their own movie franchise,” but Vinciquerra clearly believes critics are biased towards these movies and wouldn’t give any future SSU instalments a fair shake.
“He has been bitten by a snake. If we publish one, it will be destroyed, no matter how clever or bad it is.
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“Kraven the Hunter is the visceral story about how and why one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Set before his notorious vendetta with Spider-Man, Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the titular character in the R-rated film.”
Kraven the Hunter is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced through Columbia Pictures in agreement with Marvel Entertainment. Distributed through Sony Pictures Releasing, it is intended to be the sixth film in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe (SSU). The film directed by J. C. Chandor and written by Art Marcum, Matt Holloway and Richard Wenk.
In addition to Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the lead role, Ariana DeBose will play Calypso, a voodoo priestess and Kraven’s love interest (at least in the comics); Fred Hechinger is Dmitri Smerdyakov, also known as the Chameleon, who is Kraven’s half-brother; Alessandro Nivola will play Aleksei Sytsevich, also known as Rhino, and Christopher Abbott will play the villain known as Stranger.
The movie has been rated R for “Strong bloody violence, and language.”