KRAVEN THE HUNTER
Genre
Action and Adventure
Running time
130 minutes
Year
2024
Language
English
Subtitle
Arabic
Country
United States of America (USA)
Director
J. C. Chandor
Bio
Producer
Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, David Householter
Cast
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Russell Crowe, Ariana Debose, Fred Hechinger, Alessandro Nivola, Christopher Abbott
Scriptwriter
Richard Wenk, Art Marcum, Matt Holloway
Kraven the Hunter is the action-packed, standalone story of how one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays Kraven, a man whose complex relationship with his ruthless gangster father, Nikolai Kravinoff (Russell Crowe), starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not only the greatest hunter in the world, but also one of its most feared.
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