Sony just released the first 8 minutes of Kraven the Hunter

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The studio hopes to bolster its Spider-Man Universe with much-delayed film starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

Sony Picture's Kraven the Hunter explores origins of titular villain.

 

Hollywood is coming off a record-breaking Thanksgiving weekend, thanks to the winning trifecta of Moana 2, Gladiator II, and Wicked Part 1. Can other upcoming releases ride that wave? Perhaps that's why Sony Pictures just released the first eight minutes of its much-delayed Kraven the Hunter. which opens in 10 days.

 

Comic book fans are well acquainted with Kraven as one of Spider-Man's most formidable foes, a founding member of the Sinister Six. He's a Russian immigrant with an aristocratic background who fled his home country when Tsar Nicholas II's reign collapsed in 1917. He's a big-game hunter with enhanced abilities thanks to ingesting a mysterious potion made from jungle herbs. He's very hard to injure and has super-human strength and enhanced sight, hearing, and smell, and he's a good tactician with excellent hand-to-hand combat skills.

 

The film version appears to be an origin story. Per the official premise:

 

Kraven the Hunter is the visceral, action-packed origin story of how and why one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays Kraven, 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.

In addition to Taylor-Johnson and Crowe, the cast includes Ariana DeBose as the voodoo priestess Calypso, Kraven's love interest; Fred Hechinger as Dmitri Smerdyakov, aka Chameleon, Kraven's half-brother; Alessandro Nivola as Aleksei Sytsevich, aka Rhino, a Russian mercenary who can transform into a human/rhino hybrid; Christopher Abbott as a mercenary and assassin called the Foreigner; and Levi Miller as young Sergei.

 

An intriguing full trailer dropped back in August, leaning heavily into R-rated gore and set to Johnny Cash's moodily atmospheric "The Man Comes Around." It was an entirely different, darker vibe from prior offerings, a revenge narrative rife with violence and daddy issues. The new footage finds us in the wintry wilds of Russia with prisoners being loaded onto a bus for transport. One wanders off and is found brooding over the horizon. The guard taunts him that he would never survive out there.

 

Once we get to the actual prison, it's clear this newcomer isn't your average prisoner. He's constantly checking out the environment and tells his cellmate he won't be there for more than three days. An altercation in the prison yard reveals the man's immense strength. And when he's brought before the prison warden, Chorney—head of the gun-running Kirov gang—his real objective becomes clear. He is the "hunter" of legend who stalks men like Chorney in revenge for the innocent lives lost to their criminal activities. "There's an ounce of truth in every myth," Kraven tells Chorney right before stabbing him in the neck. Infiltrating the prison to take out Chorney was his goal all along, and naturally, he escapes.

 

Real talk? That's a strong opening sequence that bodes well for the film as a whole. Kraven the Hunter hits theaters on December 13, 2024.

 

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Hope the movie lives up to this trailer. We've been disappointed before.