‘Kraven the Hunter’ Will Be Sony’s First R-rated Marvel Movie; New Guest Character Confirmed

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While superhero fans are expecting movie blockbusters from Marvel and DC Studios this year; Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, The Flash, The Marvels, and Aquaman 2; Sony Pictures also has one candidate for this year. After receiving mixed to negative responses three times in a row; Venom, Venom: Let There be Carnage, and Morbius; this might be Sony’s last chance to finally deliver a decent spectacle of the genre with their anti-hero-based movies.

Kraven the Hunter is now set to make his big screen debut in the homonymous movie set in Sony’s Spider-Man universe. At Sony’s recent presentation at CinemaCon, it was confirmed that Kraven the Hunter will be the first R-rated movie set in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe.

Also, the movie will have a guest star in the form of Rhino, a known supervillain who we’ve already seen in live-action in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, where Paul Giamatti played him. The official teaser for Kraven the Hunter was released exclusively at CinemaCon, but the wider audience won’t get the first official trailer before Summer.

Kraven the Hunter is one of the Spider-Man-related characters that can work as both ant-hero and villain. Avengers: Age of Ultron star Aaron Taylor-Johnson was cast as Kraven in 2021. The movie will also star Ariana DeBose as Calypso and Fred Hechinger as Dmitri Smerdyakov/Chameleon. Christopher Abbott, Alessandro Nivola, Russell Crowe, and Levi Miller are also set to star in undisclosed roles.

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Despite mixed critical reception, both Venom movies were commercially successful, which ensured the development of the third movie. Morbius, on the hand, not only received negative reviews but was also a box-office bomb (even after re-releasing it in theaters), so we’re not expecting a sequel despite the movie’s ending and post-credit scene.

Kraven the Hunter is now a chance for Sony’s Spider-Man Universe to deliver some good stuff, and it looks like it took three PG-13 movies to realize that anti-heroes like Venom, Morbius, and Kraven work better with R-rating. We can only hope they will figure out the same with Venom 3. Sony is also developing Madame Web and El Muerto movies, which will also be set in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe. Both movies are set to arrive next year, although El Muerto is reportedly experiencing some delays in pre-production.

Directed by J. C. Chandor, Kraven the Hunter is set to be released on October 6, 2023.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.

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