Kraven the Hunter is now a candidate for the most violent comic book movie of all time, and we're not exaggerating.
The first seven minutes of the film and an additional fight scene were screened behind closed doors at the New York Comic Con, hosted by director JC Chandor and star Aaron Taylor-Johnson. The opening sequence sees Sergei Kravinoff, aka Kraven, escape from prison (and use his superhuman strength and agility to scale some walls and bust some faces).
In the second clip, a group of bad guys set out to hunt down Kraven, but they don't know… that they are the ones being hunted. Kraven sets a series of traps, and someone takes a bear trap to his face, and another thug is split in half by being thrown with chains into a giant rock. I wish you could have heard the audience scream.
The cast includes Ariana DeBose as Calypso, Fred Hechinger as Dmitri Smerdyakov aka Chameleon, Alessandro Nibola as Aleksei Systsevich aka Rhino, Christopher Abbott as the Stranger, and Russell Crowe as Nikolai Kravinoff.
Kraven the Hunter hits theaters on December 13, delayed from its August 30 release date. For more, check out our list of the most exciting upcoming movies in 2024 and beyond, or skip straight to the good stuff with our list of movie release dates.