Oscar nominee Ariana DeBose (West Side Story, Hamilton) has joined Sony Pictures’ Kraven the Hunter alongside Aaron Taylor-Johnson who will lead in the titular antihero role. According to Deadline, DeBose’s character is currently unconfirmed but sources are reporting DeBose will likely play Calypso in the film. The movie also stars Russell Crowe and Fred Hechinger.
Calypso is described as a “voodoo priestess who utilizes magic potions, and besides being an adversary of Spider-Man, she is also the occasional partner and lover of Kraven.”
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In Kraven the Hunter, Russian immigrant Sergei Kravinoff (Taylor-Johnson), aka Kraven the Hunter, is on a mission to prove that he is the greatest hunter in the world.
Kraven the Hunter will be directed by Oscar nominee J.C. Chandor (Margin Call, A Most Violent Year, Triple Frontier) from a screenplay by Richard Wenk (The Equalizer films, The Magnificent Seven, The Mechanic), Matt Holloway, and Art Marcum. Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach are attached to produce the project. The movie is being billed as the next chapter of Sony’s Spider-Man Universe (SSU). The film is expected to be released on January 13, 2023.
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Kraven the Hunter, whose real name is Sergei Kravinoff, was first introduced in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man #15 back in 1964. As his moniker suggests, he’s a hunter with a superhuman ability to track his prey. More than 20 years later, his definitive story, Kraven’s Last Hunt, became a landmark moment in Spider-Man’s long and increasingly complicated canon.
