Kraven The Hunter concept art shows the canceled Venom crossover

Sony’s Spider-Man universe is pretty much dead. According to reports, the studio is no longer interested in making Spider-Man movies without the Spider-Man himselfwhose only live-action appearance was a brief cameo as a newborn baby in Madame Web.

It makes sense, of course. Without a doubt, it was the most disastrous attempt at creating a cinematic universe since Universal’s Dark Universe. Virtually none of Sony’s Spider-Man movies have been well received by critics, audiences, or the general public. Of course, there are some fans of the Venom movies who to do have some of the quirkiest and funniest moments in a superhero movie trilogy in recent memory — like Venom becoming a gay icon in a nightclub or Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock climbing into a lobster tank. Still, you can only go so far with a universe almost entirely made up of comic book villains who violently transform into anti-heroes.

We saw the consequences of this in Kraven the Hunter, Sony’s latest film in the Spider-Man universe. As our own Whitney Seibold wrote in his /Film review, the film “is an incoherent, incompetent collection of well-worn superhero tropes hastily pushed to an audience the filmmakers know they lost long ago.” But at some point there was a discussion about adding some Venom to this movie.

While this is likely the last time Sony makes a Spider-Man movie that doesn’t focus entirely on Spider-Man, Kraven the Hunter is surprisingly has no connection with other films. There isn’t even a post-credits scene teasing the project that might leave viewers wanting more of Craven. It’s a shame, because it would make sense that the only reason to create a cinematic universe of Spider-Man villains without Peter Parker would be to bring them all together in a big Sinister Six-esque crossover movie.

Unfortunately, that never happened, and aside from a brief and very silly encounter between Morbius and the Vulture, none of these characters ever met each other in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe. Besides, it could happen.

Concept artist Jules Dariolo took to Instagram to share concept art for Kraven the Huntsman, which pits Sergei Kravinov against Venom himself (sort of). A deleted scene shows Venom lying half-dead in some desolate wasteland surrounded by other dead symbiotes. Given how out of place it might have seemed in the main Kraven the Hunter story, it’s more likely that the deleted scene was meant to be part of a post-credits scene or nightmare sequence. Unfortunately, we may never know — let alone Venom and Craven meet.