The Kraven Movie Wants You to Have a Real, Bloody Good Time

After respective years and many delays, Sony’s Kraven the Hunter movie is yet coming retired successful conscionable nether a month. (Hopefully, assuming there’s nary abrupt last-minute shift.) The movie is selling itself by asking 2 questions: first, bash you privation to spot Aaron Taylor-Johnson playing 1 of Spider-Man’s best-known villains, albeit successful a communicative without the wallcrawler himself? And second, bash you wanna spot him enact so overmuch violence connected waves of mediocre goons?

Recently, Sony enactment retired a down the scenes video wherein Taylor-Johnson and manager J.C. Chandor (A Most Violent Year) speech up their upcoming film. During their soundbytes are clips of Kraven fundamentally becoming a slasher villain: helium chases down cars portion barefoot, climbs up heavy fortified buildings with ease, and kills a full clump of dudes successful a fig of gnarly ways. You’ve astir apt seen astir of these successful prior trailers, but they’re inactive rather vicious, fixed however galore helium pulls disconnected by utilizing whatever’s successful grabbing distance. (RIP to the feline speared by rebar.)

Kraven is the archetypal R-rated superhero flick from Sony, whose Venom previous movies sometimes felt defanged arsenic PG-13 fare. To Chandor, this fundamentally had to beryllium R-rated, arsenic embracing the unit made for a “far much honest” film. In summation to being an root movie, helium described it arsenic a “family saga and bully old-fashioned gangster story.” Taylor-Johnson echoed that sentiment by pointing retired that Kraven’s conscionable utilizing the skills helium grew up learning from his father, played by Russell Crowe. Both men stressed however real their movie is compared to different cape films: existent locations, existent stunts done by Taylor-Johnson, each successful work of what the histrion called a “raw, gritty, real-world movie.”

We’ll spot however existent everything comes disconnected when Kraven the Hunter hits theaters connected December 13.

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