We’ve had five supposedly Spidey features without any sign of their presiding superhero. Let’s hope he finally swings into action in the sixth
himself never appears in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe? We are now five movies into the studio’s ongoing effort to spin an entire cinematic web from the sticky residue of the masked webslinger’s famed rogue’s gallery, and there is still no sign of the little guy himself.
Perhaps this is just Sony turning the anticipation dial up to 11 and leaving it there while we all sit through another dozen half-arsed supervillain spin-offs, like lost souls trapped in the comic book movie equivalent of Dante’s Purgatorio.
Asked whether he felt Kraven the Hunter should fight Spidey in a future instalment, star Aaron Taylor-Johnson said this week that he, which is pretty much what all fans have been saying since the beginning of this thing. The correct answer, of course, would just have been “yes”. While Kraven the Hunter is mildly interesting in his own right, he becomes a thousand times more intriguing as an obsessive, unrelenting foil for the masked webhead himself.
Sony has been frustratingly coy about Spider-Man’s presence in this universe. It’s as if he were a secret menu item at a fast-food chain that’s only available at 3am during a lunar eclipse in the third fiscal quarter of a leap year – provided of course that the hopeful purchaser makes sure to whisper “with great power” to the cashier.
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