Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I'm your host Paul and if you've been Craving some
new Spider-man spin off trailer details then this is the video youve been...huntering...
Ok so the first look at Kraven The Hunter was officially shown at Cinemacon last
night and we have a lot of details and descriptions of what's in the trailer
to talk about. Arraon Taylor Johnson is placing the infamous hunter and from the
sounds of it this might actually break the curse of spider-man spin-offs. I actually
like Venom but I'm not gonna mention it cos everytime I do our editor Matt kids off.
Anyway throughout this video we're gonna be breaking down what we learned from the
event and also discussing what we think will be happening in the film. If you enjoy the
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Now from the event we know that the film is gonna be R-Rated and that the first look is
packed with a lot of over the top action and gore. Aaron Taylor Johnson takes centre stage
and he's been really building a name for himself the last couple of years. It's got to the point
now that he's apparently the front runner for James Bond and if you'd told me ten years ago
that Kick Ass would end up being 007 I'd say 'Sure, and Avatar 2 will make over a billion.'
But here we are.
Anyway trailer footage descriptions often get lost
in translation so some of the things might be slightly altered here however
from what I've been able to gather this is basically what happens in the trailer.
Rhino will be making a big appearance in it and with Sony not using Spider-man in their
villain spin offs they've instead opted to have him as the main focus. Kraven is
of course a hunter and the character actually made his name in the comics by attempting to
track down the web head and claim him as a prize. In Kravens Last Hunt he actually
managed to accomplish this as well and he ended up burying Spider-man alive which
led to him having to crawl out of a grave in one of the best comic book covers ever.
In the ultimate comics Kraven was a sort of Steve Irwin reality tv star except for that
he hunted the animals instead of being the best, best bloody bloke there's ever been.
He was trying to prove himself as the best hunter that there's ever been which is a key component of
the character. Now whenever we've meet him in the comics he's been fully established,
however this movie will act as a sort of origin story for him and we'll see
not only his younger years but also his father who'll be played by Russell Crow.
Now the footage apparently begins in the country side where a number of mercenaries
are seemingly closing in on a location. Kraven pops up out of nowhere wielding
his classic machete and he'll cut them up in what's meant to be an extremely
gory and brutal scene. The description for the footage just says lots of blood and
this will instantly give us the idea that this movie is here to earn it's R Rating.
Anyway at this point we hear Russell Crowe as his
father giving narration to what the general theme of the movie will be.
He basically gives lines about what he is and what he'll become and he
closes it by saying that both he and his son are predators.
Now though the Rhino is portrayed as the villain in the trailer it is possible that
Crowes character might end up becoming the big bad who potentially is putting
his son through his paces in order to try and craft him into the worlds
greatest hunter. Potentially he's in cahoots with Rhino or something but we will see.
Anyway from here we cut to a snowy action scene before then moving to
city. This gives the idea that this is going to be a globe trotting adventure with Kraven
training his skills in both arctic and urban jungles. We're told throughout it
that he's just another man who's looking for a trophy. Again this suggests that he hasn't
made his name yet and instead he's just out there on the hunt trying to build his name.
The trailer is meant to be quite short and we have a couple more shots with
one including Kraven sitting in an office chair before he spears
someone who walks into the room. He also bites a guys nose off during
this and lastly someone gets stuck in a medieval trap which brutally kills them.
I am a bit confused over when this actually happens as some
reports have said this is what opens the trailer with the mercenaries and
that Kraven actually spits the nose directly at the camera.
Either way it's meant to be very over the top and Sony are pushing hard for that R Rating with the
film. I wasn't able to place when this part happened in the trailer but we are
also meant to see his classic comic accurate vest. Kraven pulls it out of a chest at one
point so potentially this belonged to his father or it may be something from a post credits scene.
You know how Sony love showing their post credit scenes in trailers because
they can't help themselves but yeah, that's meant to be what's in the movie.
Now we appearently end with a tease of the Rhino and get a couple of
action scenes with us also seeing what's happening with the character power wise.
When he appeared in the amazing spider-man 2 the villain of course had that iconic robotic armour.
However, they're taking a different approach for
this film and the Rhino will instead be achieving his abilities through a serum.
We're meant to see Kraven encounter the character who then injects himself with a fluid. From here
we get a shot of his arm morphing into a giant rhino fist before the rest of his body transforms.
At this point he will become a giant rhino monster and it'll be up to Kraven to take him down.
Now him basically being Rhino Man also sets up the fact that he might one day be hunter spider-man.
Sort of animal themed villains and with Spider-man having a lot of them they
could even have him go toe to toe with other animal inspired characters in the Universe.
You've got Scorpion, Black Cat, Doctor Octopus, The Vulture and so on.
So if things go well we might even get other villains like
that for the character to face off againt.
Now the trailer ends with the tagline Nothing Survives The Hunt and this is
very much giving us the idea that Kraven will somewhat lose himself in carrying out
these deeds. Gonna be really interesting to see how it all plays out with that and
I think that Aaron Taylor Johnson is a really great get for the film.
Sony have pulled in JC Chandor to direct and incase you don't know who that is,
he was behind a most violent year. At cinemacon Sony also apparently made
it clear that they are still planning to pull together all the spider-man spin-off
characters into an overarching storyline even though Morbius was somewhat Midbius.
Nah it was terrible wasn't it.
Anyway this is clearly Sony finally embracing what they need to do and just saying f**k it.
They didn't even include 50 spider-man easter eggs in the trailer that they're then gonna
edit out of the actual film and im hoping this shows that theyre are confident in it.
I actually also like Venom 2 mate, yeah don't kick off but it baffled
me that they did a Carnage story that was PG-13. This guys a serial killer with one
of the most messed up backstories in comics and they toned it right down
to try and appeal to everyone. I really think that they should have leaned into
that and I'm glad that it at least sounds like they're doing that with this film.
Deadpool and Logan have shown that you can do R Rated comic book films and have them do
well and I'm hoping that if this one succeeds that it will help it become more normalised
in the genre. We know that Deadpool 3 will be R Rated and if that does well then I'm hoping
it opens the doors for movies like Blade and the like to receive that rating too.
Comic book movies are in a weird place at the moment and it does seem like disinterest in
them hasn't been like this since the early noughties. Shazam 2 bombed pretty hard and
Quantumania hasn't turned a profit yet I dont think so it's gonna be really
interesting to see if this can garner an audience by doing things differently.
I think that's the main thing with it is that there's just not enough movies breaking the
mold right now but doing stuff like pushing for R Ratings, making Batman like a gritty crime noir,
Joker and so on. These types of movies that take chances actually manage to stand
out and it shows that the franchise is also growing with it's audience.
We're hitting a point now where the first MCU movie was released 15 years ago but that
first iron man actually seems more mature than a lot of the stuff we're getting now.
So fingers crossed this helps to make the movie better and hopefully it wins some
good will towards the sony universe cos the last couple films have been a bit lacklustre.
Now obviously let me know your thoughts below and if this makes you more or less
hyped for the movie. There was some Madame Web footage apparently shown as well but I'm still
getting clarification on what happened in that so I'll keep you up to date on it when I know.
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