{"id":377119,"date":"2025-12-30T03:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/377119\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T03:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:35:07","slug":"sony-wouldnt-let-ryan-coogler-use-kraven-for-black-panther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/377119\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony wouldn&#8217;t let Ryan Coogler use Kraven for Black Panther"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when Sony\u2019s universe of Spider-Man villains really looked like it might have been something. Or, rather, it looked that way to executives counting the surprising $850 million box office of Venom. Assuming that all Spider-Man\u2019s villains were as popular and beloved as Eddie Brock, Sony pressed forward with films about Dr. Michael Morbius, Madame Web, and a hunter named Kraven. The quick diminishing returns felt by audience members who didn\u2019t know they were buying tickets to an off-brand superhero franchise eventually led to the series flaming out with the unsurprising disappointment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/kraven-the-hunter-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kraven The Hunter<\/a> last December. If Sony hadn\u2019t been so protective of characters that really need a good and recognizable hero to give them some juice, they may have been able to make a pretty good Kraven movie directed by Ryan Coogler. In fact, during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=quaE9Q2BzeY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coogler\u2019s interview with Happy Sad Confused today<\/a>, the director revealed that he originally wanted the character for his first Black Panther, but Sony put the kibosh on Kraven.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, Kraven wouldn\u2019t have been the film\u2019s big bad, nor would Michael B. Jordan have played the Hunter. From the sounds of it, the director wanted the character for a cold-open action scene. Coogler tells host Josh Horowitz that he and co-writer Joe Robert Cole took inspiration from Christopher Priest\u2019s run of comics, which starts with Black Panther, Kraven, and Everett Ross fighting in a kitchen. A self-proclaimed \u201cbig Spider-Man fan, especially Spider-Man: The Animated Series,\u201d Coogler asked the higher-ups at Marvel if he could use the character. Sony clearly had other ideas. \u201cI was like, \u2018Yo, can I have Kraven in the movie?\u2019 [Marvel was] like, \u2018We don\u2019t think so, but let us check.\u2019 So, they hit Sony, and Sony was like, \u2018Absolutely not.\u2019 They came back to me like, \u2018Yo, we can\u2019t do it.\u2019 So, I was like, \u2018Okay.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, \u201cokay\u201d is what many moviegoers said after the trailer for 2024\u2019s Kraven The Hunter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a time when Sony\u2019s universe of Spider-Man villains really looked like it might have been something.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-377119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}