‘Kraven The Hunter’: Christopher Abbott To Play The Foreigner In Sony’s Marvel Pic
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Catch-22 star Christopher Abbott is set to join Sony Pictures’ Marvel movie Kraven the Hunter, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the title role.
While unconfirmed, sources say Abbott would play the film’s main villain, The Foreigner — one of Spider-Man’s bigger adversaries in the comics.He joins a cast that includes Ariana DeBose, Russell Crowe, Alessandro Nivola and Fred Hechinger.
Deadline recently broke that Nivola would be playing an unknown villain as well so like so many Marvel pics, we will have multiple adversaries that our main character will battle.J.C.
Chandor is directing the pic with Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach producing. Art Marcum & Matt Holloway and Richard Wenk penned the screenplay.Sony had no comment on Abbott’s casting.One of Sony Pictures’ universe of Marvel characters, Kraven is among Marvel’s most iconic and notorious antiheroes.
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