Aaron Taylor-Johnson is playing “Spider-Man” villain “Kraven the Hunter” in an epic origin story hailing from Marvel and Sony.

Taylor-Johnson leads the long-awaited “Kraven” standalone film as the titular character. The logline reads: “Kraven (Taylor-Johnson) is a man whose complex relationship with his ruthless father, Nikolai Kravinoff (Russell Crowe), starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not only the greatest hunter in the world, but also one of its most feared.”

The “Thor” alum Crowe (he played Zeus) has made his thoughts on superhero franchises known, but that didn’t stop him from doing “Kraven the Hunter.” The feature continues the Sony-Marvel partnership after “Madame Web,” which was also set in the “Spider-Man”-universe as a prequel film. Additional spinoffs include “Venom” and “Morbius.”

“Kraven the Hunter” co-stars Ariana DeBose, Alessandro Nivola, Fred Hechinger, and Christopher Abbott, who is also playing another storied...