It’s been a weird year for superheroes at Sony. After the lacklustre debut of the criminally underrated Madame Web , and with no Spider-Men animated or otherwise to lean on, it’s all eyes on fall and winter as the studio brings the final Venom movie to theaters and debuts a new leading anti-hero: longtime Spidey villain Sergei Kravinoff, a.k.
a. Kraven the Hunter. If our first extended look at the film was anything to go by, he’s going to be making a bloody landing later this year.
Although we’ve already had a brief glimpse at the violent and messy family drama at play in J. C. Chandor’s upcoming movie in its debut trailer , at New York Comic Con last night, the director and star Aaron Taylor-Johnson debuted the opening scene from the film to try and show audiences what will make the R-Rated superhero movie stand out.
Featuring almost entirely subtitled dialogue in Russian, the film opens in a snowy tundra as a lone truck drives along a quiet road. It turns out, as the truck pulls up to a gas station, that it’s a prison van: a soldier gets out the truck, instructing the prisoners to follow for a brief break, Kraven included. As the truck ventures on to a nearby prison colony, we cut inside as Kraven and the other new inmates are lead through to grab their amenities, surrounded by guards and inmates alike rattling bars and railings to intimidate them.
Kraven meets his brusque roommate, who tells him in Russian that he hates sharing his room with someone. The feeling.