Aaron Taylor-Johnson cast as Kraven the Hunter

Sony’s Kraven The Hunter Movie Has Cast An MCU Alum As The Spider-Man Villain

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Plenty of Spider-Man villains have been adapted for film over the last two decades, but one of the Web-Slinger’s most iconic villains who still hasn’t made the jump to the big screen yet is Sergei Kravinoff, a.k.a. Kraven the Hunter. However, that’s changing soon, because while there are no plans for Kraven to battle the costumed Peter Parker in a Spider-Man movie, he is leading his own feature in the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters. Now we finally know who’s bringing Kraven to life: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, a.k.a. the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Quicksilver.

This casting news comes straight from Sony Pictures, making this Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s third superhero movie role. He first jumped into the genre as Dave Lizewski in the Kick-Ass movies, and then followed that up playing Pietro Maximoff, a.k.a. Quicksilver, in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Avengers: Age of Ultron. Now he’s taking center stage as Kraven the Hunter, who made his comic book debut in 1964’s The Amazing Spider-Man #15.

For those unfamiliar with Kraven the Hunter, he’s a big game hunter who was born into Russian aristocracy and is the half-brother of Dmitri Smerdyakov, a.k.a. The Chameleon. Kraven ingested a mystical serum that increased his strength and slowed down his aging, but after growing bored with defeating the world’s most dangerous animals with his bare hands, he set his sights on a different kind of prey: Spider-Man. Kraven has tangled with Spidey numerous times both

Might explain why he didn't show up as Quicksilver in WandaVision

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