During an hour-long presentation at this year’s New York Comic Con, Sony revealed new features for three upcoming titles: Venom: The Last Dance, Karate Kid: Legend, and Kraven the Hunter. The appearance was announced.
Friday night’s panel featured Aaron Taylor-Johnson, director J.C. Chander, Tom Hardy, Juno Temple, Chiwetel Ejiofor and director Kelly Marcel, and featured the opening footage of Craven, the best of A trailer for “Kid: Legend” and a clip and discussion about what happens when Venom takes over the horse in “The Last Dance.”
Chander began his presentation by saying, “It’s like an old gangster movie, basically a classic journey, but obviously with a bit of a Marvel twist. This is no peach-colored Craven.” You won’t do that. You’ll have to be brutal with Kraven.”
He added of the December 13th release: “We really had the opportunity to dive into Marvel characters in a really cool way,” he said. “We wanted to take the spirit of those characters to what fans wanted and bring it to the screen in a new way…As a storyteller and as a director, I myself know the actors in all the performances. We’ve struck a balance between not breaking the fourth wall. We believe this story as if it really happened.”
Regarding the film’s R rating, he shared his enthusiasm for making it more mature based on the comics. ”It’s pretty, pretty intense. “When the studio gave us the opportunity to see if we wanted to do this as an R (rated) movie, we were like, ‘Yes,'” he said. “It was a great opportunity. It opened up a very intense kind of grindhouse thing on the one hand, and a very intense character thing on the other hand.”
The director said casting Taylor-Johnson was a big challenge. “Finding an actor who can stand right up against a lot of the other actors in the movie and still perform well from a performance standpoint, but also be able to move physically in a way. This kind of animalistic dance. ” he said. “He was born to play Craven.”
After appearing on stage to thunderous applause, Johnson spoke of Craven’s “iconic image”, particularly his physicality. “I think it’s always interesting to play a villain and it comes with more depth and complexity. He’s real. He’s not an alien, he’s not a visual VFX monster. He chose to be a hunter, a killer. “Man, I think there’s a lot of layers to that,” he noted. “Kraven is a hunter, not a poacher, and as any great hunter knows, sometimes you have to thin out a herd to maintain order. When you start applying that to humans, it gets pretty dark. It becomes a story.”
The footage released included a scene in which Craven, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, is transferred to prison. When Craven arrives, he is met by his cellmate to a rousing welcome as his fellow prisoners bang on the cage from above. His cellmate points out that the last man was here only a month, and Craven promises he will only stay a few days. He confronts a number of newly minted enemies and, after exchanging words, traps Kraven inside before meeting with the colony’s gang leaders. This begins an intense battle sequence in which Kravev viciously destroys the entire room, then takes the fight to the hallway outside. There he is eventually released from prison and escapes by climbing a wall and then through the tundra into a wall of snow.
A second clip showed Craven armed in a house in the woods, preparing to hunt a number of men with guns shooting at wild animals. The hunt depicts him using a bear trap to take out one of his enemies and brandishing a thorny log, all while being chased from above by a helicopter.
Next up was Karate Kid, which started with a trailer starring Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio. Star Ben Wang led much of the footage, heavily teasing the film’s focus on family, fighting, and stunt work. “There is only one question in life: Is it worth fighting for?” Or not? “You can hear Chan saying this.” Macchio, who led the group, will team up.
Fans of Venom can now watch new footage from the third installment in the Tom Hardy-led series, with a trailer already released that teases the final chapter of the symbiotic relationship. During a panel discussion, Hardy reflected on playing the character for over five years. “I absolutely loved playing Eddie,” he told the crowd. “This was one of the best things in my life, so I’ll be sad to see him go.”
Hardy also talked about how he and director Marcel collaborate on the film, often going back and forth with ideas, before Marcel teased where the film will take fans. He said he was doing it. “We found him right where we left him at the end of ‘Venom 2,'” she teased about the film, which opens next week. “Now they’re fugitives and on the run. ‘The Last Dance’ is a road trip movie where they’re pursued by people from our world and other worlds, and the longer they’re together, the more they realize they’re together. They come to realize that they are putting the world at risk.”
Ejiofor and Temple also teased their characters, stating that Ejiofor’s character is “a military man.” “He’s incredibly strict and direct in dealing with these creatures and trying to keep this facility together,” he said. The protagonist, who shares a facility with Temple, works on the scientific side, but the two do not always see eye to eye.
During the panel discussion, Hardy also explained how the team shot the scene with Venom inside his head, and that multiple earphones were used, including recordings of Venom’s voice and Marcel’s instructions. pointed out. The two are generally very collaborative on and off screen, including during the film’s writing process, Hardy explained in a 20-minute presentation.
“I come up with great ideas,” Hardy said. “Okay, I’m going to talk to Kelly and keep talking until Kelly says, ‘Enough.'” Then I think, “Oh, she gets it.” Then Kelly left and came back saying things I never meant to say, but it was all perfectly formatted and I patted myself on the back…Thanks Kelly, my The idea turned into something completely different. ”
“That’s what it is. It also includes some paintings,” Marcel added.
Hardy expressed his gratitude for their partnership and congratulated her on her growth from co-screenwriter to director. “I’ve worked with Kelly for about 20 years. We started our first job together trying to do it. I just want to say she’s super talented. I support her a million percent.” I will.
“Tom and I have been on this journey together for seven years, so these films mean everything to us,” she said of her first directorial role. “I’m really grateful to Sony for letting me watch this film from start to finish, especially as the last in a trilogy. It was a great experience and I hope this inspires more female directors to direct male-led action films.” I sincerely hope that this will pave the way.”
Towards the end of the panel, the cast and creative team were asked if a crossover with Spider-Man was being considered, to which Marcel replied, “I’d love to see Venom appear in Spider-Man, but you never know.” .
As for whether this is the end of the Venom arc, Marcel and Hardy confirmed that it is. “We always thought of this as three pictures and wanted to tell the story of Eddie and Venom in three movies. The story of Venom and Eddie ends here. But you know… , there are a lot of symbiote stories in canon, so there are a lot of places to go, and maybe there are some Easter eggs here to start that journey,” Marcel teased.
