Sony showed the first seven minutes of Kraven the Hunter at a panel at NYCC this weekend which featured the titular hunter being taken into a Russian prison as an inmate before revealing that he’s really there to kill a mob boss, which he does with the use of a tooth from a Siberian tiger rug… which as Deadline reports is an interesting way to start a film.
Kraven is then chased through the woods by a team of soldiers, one of whom gets a bear trap wrapped around his face. And if you can’t tell from the description, then Director J.C. Chandor lays it out specifically by calling this “some really intense grindhouse.” Kraven being a grindhouse style movie was not on my bingo card but does make the film seem more interesting. Along with the director, start Aaron Taylor-Johnson was on stage where he described Kraven as “He’s real, he’s not a visual effects monster, he’s a man who has made a choice to be a hunter,” and went on to talk about his connection to the environment.
Nope, Spidey will not appear in this film either.“Like all great hunters, Kraven respects his prey, top of the food chain … he’s a hunter, not a poacher. Like every hunter knows, sometimes you have to cull the herd, to call order. Once he applies to human beings, it becomes a dark story.”
Not sure if comparing your movie to a genre that boasts Machete 2 or The Devil’s Rejects is a winning marketing approach or not, or how it will help the box office of another Spider-Man-Less Spider-Verse spin-off. The box office of similar films in this Spider-Man-Less Spider-Verse such as Morbius and Madame Web have both been abysmal failures. Venom is the only exception.
Kraven the Hunter opens December 13.
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Todd Fisher
Todd lives in Northern California with "the wife," "the kids," "the dogs," "that cat," and he occasionally wears pants. His upcoming release, "Are You Woke Enough Yet?", is the culmination of too much time on social media and working in the film industry.
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