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New Kraven footage shows the character demonstrating super strength, agility—and brutality
Director J.C Chandor brought ten minutes of Kraven the Hunter to NYCC (and they’re good!)
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Sony began the last panel of New York Comic Con’s Friday night by showing fans the first 7 minutes of Kraven the Hunter plus a scene later in the film. Set in a frozen tundra somewhere in Russia, the opening sequence shows an adult Kraven (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) being brought with convicts to a remote prison.
After quick encounter with fellow inmates–in which he bench-presses hundreds of pounds plus their weights, then knocks them out with a single blow, Kraven gets taken to meet the resident crime boss, who Kraven identifies as being responsible for the deaths of thousands. Identifying himself as a hunter, Kraven makes quick work of him and his men, using the tooth of tiger, then flees up the side of the prison, rips open the bars on windows, and eventually breaks free.
Beyond the violence—which is honestly nothing compared to another scene in which Kraven makes quick work of a strike force; you will never think of a bear trap the same way again—th most striking thing about the footage is Kraven’s movement. He runs at times on all fours, and clambers up the side of buildings with the agility of an ape. Chandor described the movement they wanted as an “animalistic dance, [a] violent, amazing kind of mash-up.” And Johnson really seems to pull it off. Rather than some kind of CGI silliness it has a very this-world feel to it.
“With the physicality of this role,” said Chandor, “we wanted to walk this line, where it’s grounded. He’s not Superman.”
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