'Kraven the Hunter': Release Date, Trailer, Cast, and Everything We Know About Sony's Next Spider-Man Spinoff

The original release date for Kraven the Hunter was January 13, 2023. Sony, however, changed the film's release date to October 6, 2023, the same weekend it had utilized for the Venom films.

After its theatrical run, as well as after it is released on video-on-demand and home video, the movie will eventually be accessible to stream on Netflix. Thanks to an agreement reached between Netflix and Sony in April 2021, the streaming service now has the exclusive pay-one window for new Sony Movies

On June 19, 2023, Kraven The Hunter's first trailer was made available. The three-minute trailer makes it clear that the movie will tell the hunter's Genesis story. An intriguing take on the Spider-Man mythos is witnessing a young Kraven battle a powerful lion only to acquire animal-like abilities.

Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves, John David Washington, and Adam Driver are approached for the character of Kraven. Still, the producers finally chose to cast Aaron Taylor-Johnson after being blown away by the first trailer for the movie Bullet Train. Taylor-Johnson accepted to play Kraven in a number of movies that would come after Kraven the Hunger. The actor is best known for portraying the title character in Kick-Ass and its sequel as well as Pietro Maximoff in Avengers: Age of Ultron in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Meanwhile, Jodie Turner-Smith was initially rumored to take on the role of Calypso, but in March 2022 it was announced that Academy Award-winning actress Ariana DeBose would be playing the role. The classic Spider-Man villain the Rhino, played by Alessandro Nivola, will be the major antagonist of the movie. And the other antagonist will be portrayed by Christopher Abbott, which will reportedly be the Foreigner. In February 2022, Fred Hechinger joined the Kraven the Hunter cast as Dmitri Smerdyakov, a.k.a. Chameleon, Kraven's half-brother. Russell Crowe, an Academy Award-winning actor, will play Kraven's father, with whom he has a complex connection.

Kraven the Hunter will follow Sergei Kravinoff's life story as he sets out on a quest to prove that he is the best hunter in the world.

Kraven the Hunter's plot will probably center on Kraven battling the Rhino and the Foreigner, however, Sony hasn't yet provided an official explanation of the game's plot. As a preview of the alterations he'll be making to the character, Taylor-Johnson described his Kraven as "an animal lover" and "a protector of the natural world."

In charge of directing is J.C. Chandor. The films All is Lost, Triple Frontier, and A Most Violent Year, all of which Chandor directed for Netflix, are among his best-known works.

Producers have been announced as Matt Tolmach, Amy Pascal, and Avi Arad. And after working on superhero movies like Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange, and Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ben Davis served as the cinematographer for Kraven the Hunter.

Kraven the Hunter was shot at Lake Mvatn in Iceland at the beginning of February 2022 under the working title Safari.

Taylor-Johnson stated that Kraven the Hunter will be rated R during the movie's CinemaCon presentation in 2023, making it the first Spider-Man movie to do so.

The Venom films received PG-13 ratings, while Morbius also received a PG-13 rating, despite the hopes of many fans that they would receive an R-rating. Logan, Joker, Birds of Prey, The Suicide Squad, and Zack Snyder's Justice League all received R ratings, despite the fact that most superhero movies are PG-13 rated due to the success of the Deadpool films, which prompted studios to go for the classification more regularly.