Will Spider-Man’s Kraven The Hunter Appear In ‘Black Panther 2’?

As Spider-Man continues to be shared with Sony and Marvel Studios, could Kraven the Hunter appear in Black Panther 2?

In 2017, Sony and Marvel Studios agreed to share Spider-Man and allow him to appear in the MCU. Spider-Man has since appeared in Marvel Studios’ Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, and will presumably appear in Avengers: Endgame. Marvel Studios also produced Spider-Man: Homecoming and Far From Home with Sony distributing. The original deal allowed for MCU characters to appear in Sony’s Spider-Man films and vice versa. While Tony Stark played a prominent role in Homecoming, no Spider-Man characters have appeared outside a film the wall-crawler was in.

Black Panther director Ryan Coogler expressed his desire to use Kraven the Hunter in the first film in an interview last year. Coogler was later told he couldn’t include the villain. Sony is currently developing a Kraven the Hunter solo film written by Equalizer 2‘s Richard Wenk. The spin-off film will be apart of Sony’s separate Marvel Universe, which includes Venom and Morbius. But given Black Panther’s box office and critical reception, it is possible that this may change.

Sony’s spinoff Spider-Man films have had an interesting history. While the Venom film was a massive box office success, it was critically panned. The Black Cat/Silver Sable film is now stuck in development and shows no signs of getting out. So it is very possible that Sony may just allow the of Kraven to appear in the sequel to such a critically acclaimed film if the planned film suffers a similar fate.

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Black Panther follows T’Challa who, after the events of Captain America: Civil War, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to take his place as King. However, when an old enemy reappears on the radar, T’Challa’s mettle as King and Black Panther is tested when he is drawn into a conflict that puts the entire fate of Wakanda and the world at risk.

Directed by Ryan Coogler, Black Panther stars Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Angela Bassett, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke,  Florence Kasumba, Sterling K. Brown, Andy Serkis, and John Kan.

Black Panther is now available in 4k Ultra, Blu-Ray and DVD.