In case you’d advised us to foretell the film occasions of 2022, we’re not 100% positive we might have “Russell Crowe joins one in all Sony’s many Spider-Man-adjacent superhero movies” on our bingo card. We’re wishing we had, although, as he is now a part of the forged for Kraven The Hunter.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson is on board to star within the title function, with Margin Name and Triple Frontier director JC Chandor getting ready to name the photographs.

In case you may not be acquainted with the fur-wearing robust nut, Sergei Kravinoff, AKA Kraven the Hunter, is one in all Spider-Man’s greatest identified and most formidable enemies in addition to the half-brother of the Chameleon. He is a personality that Sony has been making an attempt to deliver to the display screen for some time, and was rumoured throughout Andrew Garfield’s tenure within the Spidey swimsuit. You might need caught an vague glimpse of the character on the finish of No Approach Residence as one of many individuals troubling the multiverse barrier.

What function Crowe has agreed to tackle is unknown for now, although The Hollywood Reporter has heard that a number of of Kraven’s household seem within the plot, so maybe we’re taking a look at a gruff father determine?

The actor, after all, has kind with superhero adventures, having appeared in a number of of Zack Snyder’s DC motion pictures. He’ll subsequent present up in one other, taking part in Zeus in Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love And Thunder, due on 8 July.