New Trailer for Kraven the Hunter A Bloody, Brutal Mess

Sony has just released a sad new trailer Kraven the Hunterthe latest in a long line of Spider Man spinoff films. This time, we focus on the crazy big game hunter, Sergei Nikolaevich Kravinoff. Check out:

So as we can see in the trailer, the story will involve Kraven embarking on a journey of violent revenge using his knowledge of deadly traps and traps to take out his enemies in humiliating ways. He’s like Jigsaw meets Fred Jones, in an MGM lion way. The fur is back, baby. And hey, Rhino! With pants and a horn and everything.

We also love a good revenge narrative here, so, this looks like it could be a fun action movie- except for one detail. The trailer’s insistence on portraying the character as the worst MF there is for the audience of course you know he’s destined to finally be given his ass by Tom Holland’s Spider-Man (or at least, depending on which piece of diversity ends up working, various others of Spider-Man), honestly, it’s funny.

Kraven the Hunter stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the titular Kraven; Ariana DeBose as voodoo priest/love interest, Calypso; Fred Hechinger as Kraven’s brother, Dmitri Smerdyakov/Chameleon; Alessandro Nivola as the Russian anthropomorphic artist, Aleksei Sytsevich/The Rhino; Christopher Abbott as the killer, The Outsider, and Russell Crowe as Kraven’s father, Nikolai Kravinoff.

It is currently slated for a theatrical release date of December 13, 2024.

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