KRAVEN THE HUNTER: Aaron Taylor Johnson Is Ready To Dole Out Violent Justice In Fiery New Still

KRAVEN THE HUNTER: Aaron Taylor Johnson Is Ready To Dole Out Violent Justice In Fiery New Still

A new promo still for Sony Pictures' Kraven the Hunter has been released, giving us another look at Aaron Taylor-Johnson suited-up as the formidable Spider-Man "villain."

By MarkCassidy - Nov 01, 2024 06:11 PM EST
Filed Under: Kraven the Hunter

USA Today has shared a new promo still for Sony Pictures' Kraven the Hunter as part of their Holiday preview, giving us another look at Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the titular Spider-Man... villain?

Kraven may have been a fairly ruthless bad guy in the comics, but this take on the character appears to be a lot more heroic - even if he is fond of doling out pretty extreme justice to his enemies.

The first 8 minutes of the movie were recently screened during New York Comic-Con, and the sequence featured Kraven stalking and killing multiple foes in a prison. The violence was said to be surprisingly gruesome, and a second clip with "multiple very brutal kills" including murder by bear trap, axe, and tree stump - which reportedly splits someone straight down the middle - was also shown.

"He's an apex predator, the top of the food chain," said Johnson during the panel. "Kraven's a hunter, not a poacher. Like every hunter knows, sometimes you have to cull the herd to preserve order. Of course, when he starts applying that to human beings, it becomes a pretty dark story."

“It’s not just Kraven. We’ve really gotten an opportunity to dive into the Marvel characters in a really cool way,” added director J.C. Chandor. “We wanted to have the spirit of those characters be what fans want and also bring it to the screen in a new way… We’ve walked a tonal balance where myself as a storyteller and as the director, I know the actors in every performance, we’re not breaking the fourth wall. We believe in this story like it was really happening.”

"When you get in those books. It’s pretty, pretty intense," said the filmmaker of the movie's much-discussed R rating. "When the studio gave us the opportunity to see if we wanted to do this as an R[-rated] film, we were like, yes,” he said. “It was an amazing opportunity. It sort of opened up some really intense kind of Grindhouse stuff on one side, and then some also really intense character stuff.”

Check out the new still at the link below.

“Kraven the Hunter is the visceral story about how and why one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Set before his notorious vendetta with Spider-Man, Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the titular character in the R-rated film.”

Kraven the Hunter is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Marvel Entertainment. Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is intended to be the sixth film in Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU). The film was directed by J. C. Chandor and written by Art Marcum, Matt Holloway, and Richard Wenk.

In addition to Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the title role, Ariana DeBose will play Calypso, a voodoo priestess and Kraven's on-off love interest (in the comics, at least); Fred Hechinger is Dmitri Smerdyakov, aka the Chameleon, who is Kraven's half-brother; Alessandro Nivola will play Aleksei Sytsevich, aka the Rhino, and Christopher Abbott will portray another villain known as the Foreigner.

Sony's next "SMU" movie has been rated R for "Strong bloody violence, and language."

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TheNewYorker
TheNewYorker - 11/1/2024, 6:39 PM
*yawn*
Gmoney84
Gmoney84 - 11/1/2024, 6:43 PM
He’s pretty jacked in this.
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 11/1/2024, 6:44 PM
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Moriakum
Moriakum - 11/1/2024, 6:51 PM
Kraven The Animal Lover!
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 11/1/2024, 7:11 PM
@Moriakum - thet call it Mr Hands
lord22
lord22 - 11/2/2024, 1:33 AM
@Moriakum - to be honest i played the insomniac game and i never saw him hunting animals only meta humans
BraveNewClunge
BraveNewClunge - 11/1/2024, 6:56 PM
After spider noir is that it for sony's SPUMC?

BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 11/1/2024, 7:11 PM
@TheClungerine - One can hope!
DocSpock
DocSpock - 11/1/2024, 6:59 PM

Not gonna bother with this.
Nolanite
Nolanite - 11/1/2024, 7:06 PM
I believe that this movie will do some damage at the box office or at least better than the other ones lingering around.
Nolanite out
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 11/1/2024, 7:07 PM
"The first 8 minutes of the movie were recently screened during New York Comic-Con"

Was there an 11 minute standing ovation for it as well?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 11/1/2024, 7:10 PM
@Feralwookiee - i stand 25 minutes cheering for my district last time Netanyahu visited congress...so i get why people give this slop standing ovations.
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 11/1/2024, 7:18 PM
@Malatrova15 - Did he show you his iron dome?
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 11/1/2024, 7:30 PM
@Feralwookiee - lets just say he blasted my refugee filled hospital whit his rod of aron.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 11/1/2024, 7:32 PM

This just reminds me how cheated I feel that this means we will probably never see him after Spidey in Kraven's Last Hunt.

I spit on Sony.
Order66
Order66 - 11/1/2024, 7:59 PM
I hope this movie bombs. [frick] Sony.
batman001
batman001 - 11/2/2024, 5:51 AM
@Order66 - Oh it will as Sony have not been marketing this movie at all unlike with Venom: The Last Dance and even Madame Web for example where at least knew that those movies were coming out as they were everywhere here there's barely been anything released for the movie for months now.
Nomis929
Nomis929 - 11/1/2024, 8:02 PM
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OriginalGusto1
OriginalGusto1 - 11/1/2024, 10:07 PM
@Nomis929 - this is a family friendly site, perv.
TiberiousOmega
TiberiousOmega - 11/1/2024, 8:43 PM
My prediction is this movie does Madam Webb numbers. I may try to give it a watch when it hits Netflix. Of course I tried that with MW and turned it off after 20 minutes.
Huskers
Huskers - 11/1/2024, 9:51 PM
This movie may be so bad and bomb so hard it costs him James Bond!
TK420
TK420 - 11/1/2024, 10:24 PM
Am I the only one who thought he had a red hood on in that thumbnail?
BeNice123
BeNice123 - 11/2/2024, 12:12 AM
Hard pass.
Knightrider
Knightrider - 11/2/2024, 3:05 AM
Looks like a bad early 2000s movie
batman001
batman001 - 11/2/2024, 5:54 AM
Don't worry everyone this movie will be flop due to the fact that even tho the movie does indeed come out in over a months time there's been next to nothing released for this film outside of one trailer about four months ago and several posters released a year or so ago compare this to Venom: The Last Dance and even Madame Web where you at the very least knew that those movies were coming out in the first place.
DemonTweeks
DemonTweeks - 11/2/2024, 6:52 AM
Please be good, please be good, please be good........ ill happily take a "actually it was better than we thought it would be" at this stage.
LogansRazor
LogansRazor - 11/2/2024, 9:34 AM
He is a human version of Sabretooth?
CaptainCheese
CaptainCheese - 11/2/2024, 9:49 AM
Nobody cares.
CAPTAINPINKEYE
CAPTAINPINKEYE - 11/2/2024, 11:22 AM
Split down the middle!
I’m in!
MarvelZombie616
MarvelZombie616 - 11/2/2024, 5:08 PM
I think this movie will surprise people.
kirbyfan
kirbyfan - 11/2/2024, 11:08 PM
Haters will be haters, I'm looking forward to this one. I like SERIOUS HARDCORE comic book movies not that silly childish comedic garbage.
SuperSpiderMan5
SuperSpiderMan5 - 11/3/2024, 4:41 PM
I smell flop

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