Kraven the Hunter has nose-biting, blood-spitting, first hard R-rating for a Sony superhero flick
Reports from the Sony Pictures panel at Cinemacon are in: Kraven the Hunter will be the company’s first R-rated superhero film. Sony revealed the first footage for the movie, set for release on Oct. 6, to attendees, featuring blood, guts, and the titular supervillain and protagonist biting a poacher’s nose off.
The movie stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass, Avengers: Age of Ultron) in the lead with Russel Crowe as his father, Ariana DeBose as his love interest Calypso (based on the Spider-Man villain), Fred Hechinger as his half-brother Chameleon (based on the Spider-Man villain), and Alessandro Nivola as Rhino (based on the Spider-Man villain).
Taylor-Johnson has described the film’s take on Kraven as being an environmentalist and animal lover — which I guess explains the nose biting thing. As Discussing Film describes it:
“Things kick off with Kraven stopping a group of poachers in the wild who are trying to escape with their bounties of wild animal carcasses. Kraven the Hunter is confirmed to be Sony’s first rated R Marvel film and the footage really shows it, with Kraven killing everyone quite literally like an animal.
“Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Kraven the Hunter uses weapons, his hands, and even his own teeth as he bites a piece of a poacher’s face off and spits out the blood. Healso jumps off walls and pounces on foes like an animal. The main conflict of the film is between his father, played by Russell Crowe, who was the one who actually raised him in the extreme ways of hunter vs prey.”
With the actual name of Sergei Kravinoff, Kraven’s traditional comic book raison detre is that it’s his life-long goal to hunt the most dangerous people and best them in honorable single combat whether they like it or not.
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