Sony's Kraven Movie Casts White Lotus Star As Chameleon

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The upcoming Kraven the Hunter movie has found a new cast member in Fred Hechinger. The rising star is joining the Spider-Man spin-off, potentially as Kraven's equally villainous brother Chameleon.

Hechinger has recently gained a lot of traction lately, especially as a breakout character in HBO's black comedy The White Lotus. Other hit projects of his include Netflix's Fear Street trilogy and Hulu's bio-drama Pam & Tommy. And since Chameleon is a master of disguises, able to impersonate anybody, this will prove a meaty role for the young actor, and he should get a wide variety of scenes to prove his talents in the Spider-Man spin-off.

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While Deadline sources say Hechinger is playing Chameleon, the outlet notes that this has not been officially confirmed. Aaron Taylor-Johnson was cast as Kraven, making this his third role in a Marvel movie, previously playing Quicksilver in Avengers: Age of Ultron and the lead role in Kick-Ass. Kraven is an iconic Spider-Man villain, often seen as one of the Sinister Six. He is portrayed as the world's greatest hunter and has devised a potion from jungle herbs, giving him superhuman abilities. Because of this, both he and Chameleon add to the motif of Spider-Man villains being based off animals.

Kraven the Hunter marks the latest entry in Sony's growing universe of Spider-Man adjacent properties, following the two Venom films and the upcoming Morbius. All of these films involve villains in the role of antiheroes, offering a very different tone from the MCU. A cynical read of this project is Sony stretching out the Spider-Man rights for all their worth and milking an already overexposed property. And while that's not wrong, if