Kraven Still Hasn't Cast Its Most Important Character - Spider-Man
Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Russell Crowe will feature in Sony's Kraven the Hunter, but the most important character of the Sony universe film is still yet to be cast: Spider-Man. Taylor-Johnson will be playing the titular role, a big game hunter who is otherwise known as Sergei Kravinoff. Kraven first appeared in a 1964 issue of The Amazing Spider-Man as an adversary to the web-slinger, and while Taylor-Johnson's haunting performance as Ray Marcus in Nocturnal Animals promises a scintillating display, a cinematic depiction of the Marvel Comics character will surely not be as interesting without the maniacal hunter's greatest prey.
Kraven's complicated perceptions of honor and respect distinguish him from many supervillains, and the decision to portray him as the central figure represents a continuing practice in Sony's Spider-Man Universe of exploring antiheroes, whose background and motivations are often more complex and intricate than superheroes. Kraven the Hunter is set to follow Venom and soon-to-be-released Morbius in depicting villainous characters as the focal point of superhero genre films. Truthfully, despite the basis of Sony's villain spin-offs on enemies of Spider-Man, his relevance to their storylines is so far negligible.
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Kraven's desire to prove himself as the undisputed best hunter, and his fixation on an ever-resourceful Spider-Man, however, mean that his portrayal will prove a difficult concept without Spidey's inclusion in the film. While Kraven the Hunter could devise an origin story for Kravinoff, it is a character that may seem insufferably cruel, and a project that could prove excessively cynical. Though supernaturally
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