Kraven the Hunter’s New Trailer Is a Bloody, Brutal Mess

Sony has just released a gory new trailer for Kraven the Hunter, it’s latest in a long string of Spider-Man spinoff movies. This time, we’re focusing on the mad big game hunter, Sergei Nikolaevich Kravinoff. Take a look:

So as we can see from the trailer, the story will concern Kraven setting off on some sort of violent path of revenge using his knowledge of deadfall traps and snares to eviscerate his enemies in humiliating ways. He’s kind of like Jigsaw meets Fred Jones, by way of the MGM lion. Fur is back, baby. And hey, it’s the Rhino! With the pants and the horn and everything.

We also love a good revenge narrative here, so in theory, this seems like it could be a really fun action movie- except for one detail. The trailer’s insistence on depicting the character as the baddest MF around when the audience already knows he’s destined to eventually have his ass handed to him by Tom Holland’s Spider-Man (or at least, depending on which slice of the multiverse this ultimately operates, some variety of Spider-Man) is, honestly, mordantly funny.

Kraven the Hunter stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the titular Kraven; Ariana DeBose as voodoo priestess/love interest, Calypso; Fred Hechinger as Kraven’s estranged half-brother, Dmitri Smerdyakov/Chameleon; Alessandro Nivola as the Russian mercenary who turns himself into a human-rhino hybrid, Aleksei Sytsevich/The Rhino; Christopher Abbott as the assassin, Foreigner, and Russell Crowe as Kraven’s estranged father, Nikolai Kravinoff.

Its currently scheduled for a December 13, 2024 theatrical release date.

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