Sony has every reason in the world to want to keep building out its own cinematic universe of superhero features around Spider-Man, his amazing friends, and the villains that want to kill him, but the first trailer for director J.C. Chandor’s Kraven the Hunter movie doesn’t exactly inspire hope for what the studio’s dropping next.
Rather than giving the nerds what they want and just pitting its titular big game hunter against Spider-Man, Kraven the Hunter will tell the dark and rather tragic story of how Sergei Kravinoff (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) became a psychopathic leather enthusiast with a taste for human blood. In Marvel’s comics, Kraven’s known as something of a fashion-forward criminal who — in addition to murdering Spider-Man — is…