Kraven the Hunter

Aaron Taylor - Johnson is repay to the superhero public eye withKraven The Hunter . The Golden Globe Award achiever is no stranger to take a character from the comic page to live - action life , having portrayed Dave Lizewski inKick - AssandQuicksilver inAvengers : Age of Ultron , butKraven The Hunterrepresents his first time amply embracing the dark side of the genre .

Taylor - Johnson stars as Sergei Kravinoff , a big - game Orion flex on slaying the biggest prey in the hobo camp . Kraven The Hunter ’s taleis the titular graphic symbol ’s beginning narration , as director JC Chandor explore Kraven ’s relationship with his father , Nikolai Kravinoff ( Russell Crowe ) , and how that dynamic forge him into the full - blown opponent that he is destine to become .

MCU star Aaron Taylor - Johnson struggle in the first 8 minutes of Kraven the Hunter , tease what to require from the radius - rated Spider - Man villain movie .

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onward ofKraven The Hunter ’s December 13 theatrical release , ScreenRantspoke with Taylor - Johnson about who his Kraven is , the performative connections to Quicksilver , and his likely hereafter opposite Marvel ’s resident wall - crawler .

Kraven’s Spirit Animal is a Lion

Aaron Taylor-Johnson Teases Hunter’s Strength And Courageousness Ties to King of the Jungle

ScreenRant : I catch to see some ofKraven The Hunteryesterday and I ’m muff forth by everything I ’ve seen . Kraven has a very interesting human relationship with brute in this film . We see poppycock with leopards , we see stuff with tigers , we see clobber with wolf . I was doing a niggling bit of inquiry , and all of these animate being represent different things in spirituality . If I were to call for the man himself , what do you recall is Kraven ’s spirit brute ?

Aaron Taylor - Johnson : Well , I think he ’s iconically recognize for being more connected to the social lion . I finger like that being is his strength and his courageousness and his variety of defiance , veracious ? He definitely carries that symbolism with him . Now , in our story , we ’ll give you the journey of how they become very closely intertwined , but it ’s more than that . I remember it is more of a spiritual , intrinsical connective with all walks of living . He ’s a wild man .

I opine when he hunts , he becomes the animal he ’s hunt to best take on their skillset and utilize it against them . That ’s why he ’s the greatest hunter . I know all that from the comedian . I fuck taking that element and making this vigilante that goes after everybody who ’s consort in this world that he does not want to be a part of , and at last becomes far bad than any of them .

Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Kraven the Hunter looking to one side

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Kraven’s Unique Parallels to Quicksilver

Taylor-Johnson Brought Similar Levels of Humanity to Both Marvel Roles

I remember read an interview style back when you played Quicksilver in theAvengersmovies that you push for that character inAge of Ultronto show some travail , show some humans behind the supernatural ability that he ’s got going on . Did you make any like originative choice with Kraven to kind of show the human race behind this gravid - than - life hunter ?

Aaron Taylor - Johnson : utterly . I mean there ’s a lot in there that ’s relatable with mankind and humanity ’s fault and the seed of darkness and where it kind of spawns from . He ’s holding back fury and anger when really all he was looking for was love , correct ? That ’s at its meat . There ’s this family saga in this movie . There ’s a beautiful story of , with his younger brother , he ’s super protective and loving with his younger brother . It ’s the only affair he cares about . There ’s so much emotion in his heart .

You feel empathetic towards this character , yet he is on the course of destruction . you’re able to sort of see it go from one to the next , and it is great to take an audience on that journeying . It ’s great to take this sort of nefarious comic book character that we know is very iconic and give him depth , give him a mortal , right ? That ’s what we want to do . It is a amusing character that we ’re giving a soul to .

Kraven in the wilderness in Kraven the Hunter

Will Kraven Fight Spider-Man?

“I think he should go toe-to-toe with some superheroes that we know…”

I ’d be derelict if I did n’t ask you about the future . This feels like just the first chapter of Kraven ’s tale . Obviously , there ’s a web - slinger down the line in the cartoon strip . Do you believe your Kraven needs to agitate Spider - Man to bind his tarradiddle all together ?

Aaron Taylor - Johnson : I mean , it ’s very much the question to everyone else really , right ? Because I consider what we ’ve done , what we ’ve set up in this story is a really rich character that definitely has the legs to go on and do more harm . I opine he should go toe - to - toe with some superheroes that we love .

One of my favorite stories is Kraven ’s Last Hunt . It was one of the source materials I used to go back from . He ’s suffer some dark demons there and we are essentially showing the birthing of that and how he becomes a baddie that we then descend to know . So really come see this motion picture , Isle of Man . derive see this flick . I foretell you it wo n’t let down . It ’s got all the beats that you want and more . I think it could be an audience ’s form of villain favorite , [ and he should ] by all odds go toe to toe with some other mass down the line , man .

You Didn’t See That Coming - Quicksilver quote from Age of Ultron

More About Kraven The Hunter (2024)

Led by titular star Aaron Taylor - Johnson , Kraven The Hunter is a gamy and visceral gas constant - rated take on the comic character of the same name . First introduced in The Amazing Spider - Man # 15 in 1964 , this remorseless big - plot hunter found himself as one of Peter Parker ’s corking adversaries on the page , reaching peak popularity in lover - favorite comic arc Kraven ’s Last Hunt in 1987 . Kraven The Hunter interpret the case ’s debut in live - activity , as Sony Pictures continues its saga of birl off famed Spider - Man antagonist in their own solo picture .

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Kraven the Hunterarrives in theatre on December 13 .

Spider-Man fights on the Statue of Liberty in No Way Home and Kraven in the wilderness in Kraven the Hunter

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Kraven the Hunter explores the beginning story of Sergei Kravinoff , known as Kraven , as he navigates his tumultuous relationship with his father , Nikolai . This path of vengeance fructify Kraven on a journey to become a redoubtable hunter with a repute for fearsome savagery .

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