Sony has revealed new looks for three upcoming games – Venom: The Last Dance, The Karate Kid: Legendand Kraven the hunter — during an hour-long presentation at this year’s New York Comic Con.
Friday night’s panel featured Aaron Taylor-Johnson, director J.C. Chandor, Tom Hardy, Juno Temple, Chiwetel Ejiofor and director Kelly Marcel and was accompanied by the film’s opening lens. Requiretrailer The Karate Kid: Legendas well as clips and discussions about what happens when venom take over a horse last dance.
Chandor kicked off the demo, joking that “it’s like an old gangster movie, basically a classic ride, but obviously with a little bit of a Marvel twist. It’s not a peachy Craven.” You don’t. You have to be brutal with Kraven.
He added of the December 13 release: “It’s not just about Kraven. We do get a chance to delve into a Marvel character in a really cool way,” he said. “We wanted to take the spirit of these characters that fans want and bring that to the screen in a new way… We went for a tonal balance that I think myself as a storyteller and The director, I know the actors in every show and we don’t break the fourth wall and we believe the story as if it really happened.
When talking about the movie’s R-rating, he shared a desire to be more mature based on the comics. Very beautiful, very intense. When the studio gave us the opportunity to see if we wanted to do it as R[-rated] Movie, we were like, yeah,” he said. “It’s a great opportunity. It opens up some really intense grindhouse stuff on the one hand, and then some really intense character stuff on the other.
When casting Taylor-Johnson, the director pointed out that it was a real challenge. “To find an actor who has the ability to stand head-to-head with a lot of the other actors in the movie, who can also maintain a great performance from an acting standpoint, but also be physically able to move in a way, that’s what An animalistic dance,” he said. “He was born to play Kraven.”
After appearing on stage to loud cheers, Johnson spoke of Craven’s “iconic image,” particularly his physical attributes. “It’s always fun to play a villain, and I think it has a lot more depth and complexity. He’s real. He’s not an alien or a VFX monster. He’s a man who chooses to be a hunter, a killer. I I think there are many layers to this,” he noted. “Kraven was a hunter, not a poacher, and as every great hunter knows, sometimes you have to cull the herd to maintain order. Once you start applying that to humans, then It’s going to be a very dark story.
In the film’s opening sequence, Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Kraven is being transported to prison. There, Craven received a warm welcome, with other prisoners banging on the cage from above, and then he met his fellow inmates, who noticed that the last one had only been there for a month, and Craven promised that he would only Stay there for a few days. He encounters a number of new enemies before meeting with the leader of a gang in the colony, and after some conversation, he traps Kraven inside. This leads to an intense fight sequence in which Kraviv viciously destroys the entire room before moving the fight to the corridor outside, where he eventually breaks free, scales the prison walls, and escapes across the tundra. Into the snow wall.
A second clip shows Craven arming himself in a house in the woods, preparing to chase down some men with guns blazing at wildlife. On this hunt, he uses a bear trap, as well as a swinging log covered in spikes, to dislodge an enemy – all before a helicopter chases him from above.
karate kid Next up is the trailer opening with Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio. Starring Ben Wang directs much of the film, teasing the film’s focus on family, fighting and stunt work. “You only have one question in life: Is it worth fighting for? Or not? Hear what Chen says. The film is released on May 28, 2025 and stars 2010 star William Chan karate kid movie, starring Macchio in the original film, and the hit Netflix film cobra kai.
fans venom Watch new footage from the third installment in the Tom Hardy-led franchise, which has released a trailer teasing the final chapter of the symbiotic relationship. During the panel, Hardy reflected on his more than five years playing the character. “I absolutely love playing Eddie,” he told the audience. “It was one of the best things that ever happened to me, so I’ll be sad to see him go.”
Hardy also talked about how he and director Marcel collaborated on the film, often going back and forth on their ideas, before Marcel teased where the film would take fans. “We find him where we left them at the end of the story venom 2,” she teased the movie, which is set to hit theaters next week. “Now they are fugitives and on the run. last dance is a road trip movie where they are chased by people from our world and other worlds, and the longer they spend together, the more they realize that staying together puts the world in danger.
Ejiofor and Temple also teased their characters, noting that Ejiofor’s character “is a military man. He’s very strict and forthright in dealing with these creatures and trying to maintain this facility,” he said. Temple’s character shares facilities with him and works in science, but the two don’t always see eye to eye.
During the panel, Hardy also explained how the team filmed the scene with Venom inside his head, noting that it involved multiple headsets that included recordings of his Venom voice and Marcel’s direction. The two are generally very collaborative on and off screen, including during the film’s writing process, which Hardy explained during the 20-minute presentation.
“I came up with these amazing ideas,” Hardy said. “Then all I have to do is talk to Kelly, and I’ll keep talking until Kelly says, ‘That’s enough.'” And I say, “Yeah, she gets it.” And then Kelly goes away and comes back with me Never thought of what to say, but it all formatted perfectly and I gave myself a pat on the back… With Kelly, my thoughts turned into something completely different.
“That’s what happened. There were some drawings involved,” Marcel added.
Hardy said he admired their partnership and celebrated her growth from co-writer to director. “Kelly and I have been working together for about 20 years. We started trying to do our first job together. I just want to say she is so talented and I support her one million percent.
“Tom and I spent seven years together on this journey, so these movies mean everything to us,” she said of her first-time directorial debut. “I’m really grateful to Sony for letting me see this from start to finish, especially as the final installment in a trilogy. It was a wonderful experience and I really hope it opens up the space for more female directors to direct male-dominated genres. Action movies open the door.
At the end of the panel, the cast and creative team were asked about the possibility of a Spider-Man crossover, with Marcel saying, “I’d love to see Venom in Spider-Man, but who knows.”
As for whether this is the end of Venom’s arc, Marcel and Hardy confirmed it. “We always looked at this as three movies, and we wanted to tell Eddie and Venom’s story in three movies. That’s the end of Venom and Eddie’s arc. But as we know, there’s a lot of symbiotes in canon. story, so there are lots of places to go and maybe there are even some Easter eggs here to start the journey,” Marcel teased.
