KRAVEN THE HUNTER Featurette Promises A "Standalone" Origin Story...And Gangster Movie?!

KRAVEN THE HUNTER Featurette Promises A "Standalone" Origin Story...And Gangster Movie?!

With less than a month to go until Kraven the Hunter arrives in theaters, Sony Pictures has released a new featurette promising another "standalone" Marvel movie that's more gangster than superhero...

By JoshWilding - Nov 14, 2024 12:11 PM EST
Filed Under: Kraven the Hunter

Spider-Man foe Kraven is a villain through and through, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a comic book where he's portrayed in a heroic light. It makes sense then that he's not getting the hero treatment in this December's Kraven the Hunter movie from Sony Pictures. 

A newly released featurette doubles down on the character's sinister side as we see Aaron Taylor-Johnson's Kraven hunting down his targets. 

However, the sneak peek - which contains lots of bloody new footage from the movie - also drives home the fact that Kraven the Hunter is a "standalone" story, the same branding given to Madame Web earlier this year. Presumably, that means it takes place in its own reality rather than the world shared by Venom, Morbius, and, Earth-616's Vulture. 

The biggest takeaway from this preview is the fact both in the social media posts and featurette, Kraven the Hunter is now being billed as a gangster story. 

It could be the studio has decided that branding is going to appeal to a wider audience (there isn't a single allusion to Spider-Man or any superpowered-relating goings-on here) or simply what filmmaker J.C. Chandor was always aiming for with his reinvention of Kraven.

We'll see, but there's every chance this could be the movie that turns things around for Sony's Spider-Man Universe. It's interesting, though, that there's no sign of the CG Rhino the studio was pushing heavily in past previews.

Check out this new Kraven the Hunter featurette below and stay tuned for the next trailer which is rumoured to drop any day now. 

Kraven the Hunter is the action-packed, R-rated, standalone story of how one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays Kraven, a man whose complex relationship with his ruthless gangster 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.

Directed by J.C. Chandor from a story by Richard Wenk and a screenplay by Richard Wenk and Art Marcum & Matt Holloway, Kraven the Hunter is based on the Marvel Comics and produced by Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, and David Householter.

The cast is led by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ariana DeBose, Fred Hechinger, Alessandro Nivola, Christopher Abbott, and Russell Crowe.

Kraven the Hunter arrives in theaters on December 13.

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TheNewYorker
TheNewYorker - 11/14/2024, 12:41 PM
I have a feeling this movie is going to suck.
thebamf
thebamf - 11/14/2024, 12:43 PM
I hope we don't have another Morbius on our hands here....but...
LogansRazor
LogansRazor - 11/14/2024, 12:45 PM
"You know how we doooooooooooo....
Keeping it Gangsta!!"
DocSpock
DocSpock - 11/14/2024, 12:46 PM

This just means that the MCU won't have Kraven. No Kraven's last hunt. Sony, you suck!

bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/14/2024, 2:07 PM
@DocSpock - as much as I wanna see that, I doubt the MCU is ever gonna adapt a story from the comics like that. Not Sony's fault though
WEAPONXOXOXO
WEAPONXOXOXO - 11/14/2024, 12:53 PM
I like the trailer. It looks good to me. I might go see it in the theater.
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 11/14/2024, 12:59 PM
@WEAPONXOXOXO - i'd recommend to see it twice, just encase you don't like it the first time.
WEAPONXOXOXO
WEAPONXOXOXO - 11/14/2024, 4:08 PM
@harryba11zack - Is that the trick you used to like Deadpool & Wolverine? You saw it twice?
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 11/14/2024, 12:55 PM
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harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 11/14/2024, 12:57 PM
confirmed, this will be The Godfather of comic book films
Gambito
Gambito - 11/14/2024, 2:23 PM
Ngl I’ll be checking it out. Kraven,Mysterio, Carnage put them in a movie im sold, been waiting my whole life
MarvelZombie616
MarvelZombie616 - 11/14/2024, 5:28 PM
This is the most expensive James Bond application ever.
Order66
Order66 - 11/14/2024, 5:37 PM
Trash
DanFlashesShirt
DanFlashesShirt - 11/14/2024, 6:25 PM
I’d be willing to bet Sony’s thought process was:

“Durr people are raving about Penguin which was an organized crime / mob story about a known hero’s villain, let’s just market ours as a ‘gangster’ story!!!”

Would not shock me in the least 🤣
StSteven
StSteven - 11/14/2024, 8:34 PM
OT: So... I'm not British or anything (I'll defer to you who are), but considering that ATJ keeps coming up as one of the contenders for the new Bond, his voice during that video doesn't exactly scream "Bond!" to me. In fact he sounds more like a younger incarnation of Radcliff's Harry Potter than a true 007. I mean, just put Craig's Bond's voice in your head and then compare that ATJ's voice in the video and there's really no comparison. I understand that he's an actor, so he's going to have to drop his voice like an octave and assume a certain sense of gravitas that he's just not showing here. I dunno. I'll leave it up the Brits to weight in.
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 11/15/2024, 8:36 AM
I understand not trusting Sony given the recent track record, but juding exclusively by the trailers, it clearly looks like it could be at least decent. Action looks on point.

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