Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Kraven is on the hunt. On Monday, Sony Pictures revealed the official teaser poster for its first R-rated Spider-Man Universe spin-off Kraven the Hunter, showing the Bullet Train star in a comic book-accurate costume with the tagline: “Villains aren’t born. They’re made.” The new poster comes alongside the first Kraven the Hunter trailer, which Sony screened exclusively for attendees at CinemaCon in April. The R-rated footage — which dropped F-bombs and showed bloody violence — teased the hunter becoming the hunted with the arrival of another Spider-Man villain: the Rhino (Alessandro Nivola).
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See the Kraven the Hunter poster below.
Joining Taylor-Johnson in the Kraven movie are Oscar winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) as Calypso; Fred Hechinger (The White Lotus)as Kraven’s half-brother, Dmitri Smerdyakov, who in the comics is themasked master of disguise the Chameleon; and Oscar winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator) as Kraven and Dmitri’s father, Nikolai Kravinoff.
The official synopsis: “Kraven the Hunter is the visceral story about how and why one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Set before his notorious vendetta with Spider-Man, Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the titular character in the R-rated film.”
Director J.C. Chandor (Triple Frontier) is “really excited about what he’s got in front of himand really excited about the way people will receive it,” Crowe teased in a previous interview. According to Crowe, Sony’s Marvel adaptation takes place in an “unexpectedly dark world.”
Kraven the Hunter opens only in theaters this October.
