Despite the troubled existence of Morbius, Sony Pictures seems to believe that making movies about Spider-Man’s enemies—sans Spider-Man—is a great idea. Watching the trailer for Kraven the Hunter, a person might be glad for this on at least one level: Tom Holland’s good-natured web-slinger, who lives in a world that does, in fact, have more colors than brown—he would be wildly out of place here. There is no fun in Kraven land. There are only thick accents and gory murders. And abs and leather.
In the comics, just for the record, Kraven has a lot more fun with his outfits. Here, he is a scrawny kid with a mean dad (Russell Crowe) who gets super-hunter-powers after an encounter with a lion that nearly kills him (presumably having him stop to drink magical potions would be inconvenient). And then he seems to figure out that his dad sucks, but still acts just like his dad, which presumably will lead to him growing and improving as a person. Perhaps he will apologize next time he bites someone’s nose off.
Kraven is played by a stoic Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass, Avengers: Age of Ultron); the rest of the cast includes Ariana DeBose, Christopher Abbott, and the perpetually underused Alessandro Nivola, who also has a special animal connection.
Kraven the Hunter, which is directed by J.C. Chandor (A Most Violent Year), stalks into theaters October 6th.
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