Kraven The Hunter Casts Alessandro Nivola As The Main Villain

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There's the MCU and the DCEU, and now it appears there's an ever-growing Spider-Man cinematic universe. On Friday, it was announced there is another actor who has been added to that Spider-Man cinematic universe with the addition of Alessandro Nivola to the cast of theKraven the Hunter movie as the film's main villain.

Sony's Spider-Man Universe isn't likely something that was ever directly planned. It's just what's come of Sony and Marvel handing the rights to Peter Parker's alter ego back and forth the way that they have. While Spidey is technically now a part of the MCU, Sony has been making more and more movies that center around Marvel characters usually associated with the web-slinger in one way or another. Venom was the first, Morbius is the latest follow-up coming in a month. Then Kraven the Hunter will arrive next January.

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Kraven the Hunter may not be arriving in theaters for almost a year, but it's clear that production is about to ramp up, based on the number of cast members that have been named in the last few weeks. Deadline reports that Alessandro Nivola is the latest addition, playing a yet unnamed antagonist to Aaron Taylor Johnson's Kraven the Hunter main character. Nivola's most recent big project was in The Soprano's prequel, The Many Saints of Newark. Sony hasn't confirmed the casting of Nivola so for the moment, there isn't any word on just who the villain the actor will be portraying is. That's made more complicated by the fact that Kraven the Hunter is best known as being a villain in theSpider-Man comic universe.

Now that Nivola has joined Russell Crowe, Ariana DeBose, and Fred Hechinger on the cast of Kraven the Hunter, it