A trailer has been launched for Kraven The Hunter starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson – test it out above.

Directed by J.C. Chandor (A Most Violent 12 months), the movie serves as an origin story for the Marvel villain and is the fourth installment in Sony’s Spider-Man universe, following Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage and final yr’s field workplace flop Morbius.

Whereas the character is often portrayed within the comics as merely being a famend sport hunter, the movie adaptation seems so as to add lion blood dripping into his wounds as a part of his origin story. The movie can also be the primary Marvel challenge from Sony to obtain an ‘R’ score.

A synopsis reads: “Kraven The Hunter is the visceral story about how and why one among Marvel’s most iconic villains got here to be. Set earlier than his infamous vendetta with Spider-Man, Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars because the titular character within the R-rated movie.”

Villains aren’t born. They’re made. Aaron Taylor-Johnson is #KravenTheHunter – solely in film theaters October. pic.twitter.com/Q4dCvbaYDa

— Kraven The Hunter (@KravenTheMovie) June 19, 2023

Alongside Taylor-Johnson as Sergei Kravinoff aka Kraven, the movie additionally stars Ariana DeBose as voodoo priestess Calypso, Russell Crowe as Kraven’s father, Fred Hechinger as Kraven’s half-brother Dimitri Smerdyakov and Alessandro Nivola as Rhino.

Kraven The Hunter is from a screenplay by Artwork Marcum, Matt Holloway and Richard Wenk. Avid Arad, Matt Tolmach and David Householter function producers.

Sony’s Spider-Man universe is ready to proceed with a number of movies subsequent yr, with El Muerto starring Dangerous Bunny, Madame Internet with Dakota Johnson, and a sequel to Venom: Let There Be Carnage all slated for 2024.

Taylor-Johnson has been rumoured to be within the operating to be solid as James Bond, following Daniel Craig’s last outing in No Time To Die.

Kraven The Hunter is scheduled to be launched in cinemas on October 6, 2023.