Kraven's The Hunter You Can See In New Trailer From Sony

It's another villain solo as Sony builds their Spider-Man universe with as little Spidey as possible

It’s Kraven time. As Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse begins its fourth week, Sony Pictures is already looking ahead to its next Marvel project, the next Spider-Man villain movie without Spider-Man, Kraven the Hunter. The third villain to get such spotlight after the financial juggernaut Venom and its Let There Be Carnage sequel, and then the much-mocked Morbius. Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, a first trailer was shown at CinemaCon, but it’s unknown how much it resembled the one released to the public.

The trailer begins with Kraven in pursuit of a car armed against him using his animal senses before it flashes back to his childhood, when he was still Sergei Kravinoff, with his father, on a hunt and then to the day dad informed him his mother died. His dad is toxically masculine so he goes on about weakness. When faced with a lion he’s supposed to shoot, he hesitates. This gets him mauled… and his abilities, as the lion’s blood falls into his open wound. I guess kind of like MCU She-Hulk except, well, lions instead of gamma radiation. His father abandons him for his weakness. In the present day, Kraven arms himself to go after wolves and poachers, even biting off the nose of one of the poachers. Full bloody stabs too, there’s a reason it’s R-rated. His half-brother (who looks as said brother’s younger self so it may be a conscience manifestation) draws unfavorable comparisons to their father as he faces other poachers, his fear of spiders (apparently a motive to hunt Spider-Man in the comics), and his father once again as he obtains his signature lion head vest.

Directed by J.C. Chandor from a screenplay by Art Marcum & Matt Holloway and Richard Wenk, the film also stars Russell Crowe as dad Nikolai Kravinoff, and Ariana DeBose as Calypso, the voodoo priestess, along with Fred Hechinger as Dmitri Smerdyakov aka Chameleon, Alessandro Nivola and Christopher Abbott as the main villain the Foreigner. While Kraven the Hunter was originally set for release in January, it was pushed to October 6 in September 2022. The trailer can be watched below.

Source: Deadline