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After several years and many delays, Sonys Kraven the Huntermovie is finally coming out in just under a month. (Hopefully, assuming theres no sudden last-minute shift.) The movie is selling itself by asking two questions: first, do you want to see Aaron Taylor-Johnson playing one of Spider-Mans best-known villains, albeit in a story without the wallcrawler himself? And second, do you wanna see him enact so much violence on waves of poor goons? Recently, Sony put out a behind the scenes video wherein Taylor-Johnson and director J.C. Chandor (A Most Violent Year) talk up their upcoming film. During their soundbytes are clips of Kraven basically becoming a slasher villain: he chases down cars while barefoot, climbs up heavily fortified buildings with ease, and kills a whole bunch of dudes in a number of gnarly ways. Youve probably seen most of these in prior trailers, but theyre still quite vicious, given how many he pulls off by using whatevers in grabbing distance. (RIP to the guy speared by rebar.) Kraven is the first R-rated superhero flick from Sony, whose Venom previous movies sometimes felt defanged as PG-13 fare. To Chandor, this basically had to be R-rated, as embracing the violence made for a far more honest film. In addition to being an origin movie, he described it as a family saga and good old-fashioned gangster story. Taylor-Johnson echoed that sentiment by pointing out that Kravens just using the skills he grew up learning from his father, played by Russell Crowe. Both men stressed how realtheir movie is compared to other cape films: real locations, real stunts done by Taylor-Johnson, all in service of what the actor called a raw, gritty, real-world movie. Well see how real everything comes off whenKraven the Hunterhits theaters on December 13. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, whats next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.