If there’s an overarching message to this trailer, it’s that Kraven The Hunter is really going hard on the bloody violence – and given that Deadpool & Wolverine just became the second-ever R-rated film to cross the billion-dollar mark at the worldwide box office, it’s easy to see why Kraven might want to position itself in a similar realm (though, tonally, Kraven looks unlikely to be hunting down Deadpool-style gags). Did you see that guy explode against a tree trunk? And someone get a bear trap to the head? Boy, that escalated quickly. Beyond Taylor-Johnson dishing out brutal vengeance, we get a glimpse at the film’s incarnation of classic Spidey villain Rhino (played in human form by Alessandro Nivola), Ariana DeBose’s Calypso, and more of Russell Crowe’s latest accent exploration as Kraven’s father Nikolai. It’s directed by J.C. Chandor, previously behind A Most Violent Year and Triple Frontier.
Just how bloody will Kraven get? Can it rake up serious box office cash like Deadpool & Wolverine? And will it manage to hit the heights of, erm, Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Morbius, and Madame Web? We’ll find out when it hits UK cinemas in December.