The Marvel Movie That Killed Sony’s Spider-Man Universe Is Coming to Disney Plus

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The Marvel Movie That Killed Sony’s Spider-Man Universe Is Coming to Disney Plus

Polygon · 2 hours ago

Kraven the Hunter, the Aaron Taylor-Johnson-led film widely credited with sinking Sony's Spider-Man Universe, is heading to Disney Plus from 13 September following its run on Netflix. The 2024 release grossed just $62 million globally and scored only 15% on Rotten Tomatoes, capping a year in which all three SSU spin-offs (alongside Madame Web and Venom: The Last Dance) received poor reviews and, bar the third Venom film, underperformed at the box office. Its arrival will fill in most of the remaining gaps in Disney's collection of Sony's Spider-Man-adjacent films.

With Kraven added, Disney Plus will host nearly the entire SSU catalogue, including Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Morbius and Madame Web, alongside the mainline Spider-Man trilogies starring Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland; Venom: The Last Dance is also due to move from Netflix to Disney Plus shortly. The film features Fred Hechinger as Chameleon, Ariana DeBose as Calypso and Alessandro Nivola as a much-mocked take on the Rhino, plus Christopher Abbott as a minor villain called the Foreigner, notable as Abbott is set to play Professor Xavier in Marvel Studios' upcoming X-Men film. The piece frames the widely panned movie as a "hate-watch" curiosity for subscribers wanting to understand how Sony's Marvel ambitions collapsed, even as Sony's Spider-Man: Brand New Day has since passed $2 billion at the box office.

  • Kraven the Hunter streams on Disney Plus from 13 September 2026.
  • Film flopped critically and financially, ending Sony's Spider-Man Universe.
  • Move nearly completes Disney Plus's collection of Sony Spider-Man films.

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