Sony Drops Kraven the Hunter Trailer [Video]

Iconic villains aren’t born. They’re made. So say Sony and Marvel, who have just released the latest trailer for Kraven the Hunter, their visceral origin story of Kraven, played by Aaron Tayler-Johnson, whose complex relationship with his ruthless father, Nikolai Kravinoff (Russell Crowe), starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not only the greatest hunter in the world, but also one of its most feared.

With a notorious vendetta with Spider-Man.

And it’s bloody. Think John Wick meets Lamb Chop.

Interestingly, the bloody Spider-Man spinoff is not the first MCU film for Taylor-Johnson, who previously portrayed Pietro Maximoff / Quicksilver in the Avengers franchise.

Joining Taylor-Johnson are Ariana DeBose as Calypso; Fred Hechinger as Chameleon; Alessandro Nivola as The Rhino; Christopher Abbott as The Foreigner; and Crowe.

The film is directed by J.C. Chandor and produced by Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, and David Householter. The screenplay is by Richard Wenk and Art Marcum & Matt Holloway from a story by …