'Kraven the Hunter' director J. C. Chandor chats with THR at the film's premiere and reveals what sets this film apart from the rest. Plus, he shares why he believes Aaron Taylor-Johnson was perfect for Kraven and the craziest stunt he pulled in the film.
Category
✨
PeopleTranscript
00:00So I wanted to quickly ask how amazing it is to finally be able to premiere this film and have the
00:04world see it. It's been a long road. We started during COVID. I mean it was literally three years
00:10ago and so I can't wait for everyone, you know, when you put this much work into something it's
00:16like you just want people to come and see the film and that's where we are so we're pretty excited.
00:22I know previous Sony Marvel films didn't quite land with audiences so I wanted to ask what
00:26sort of sets this story apart from the rest? Yeah, you know, I treated this story exactly
00:32the way I have every other film I've ever made which is you just try and make the absolute best
00:36film that you can, build the best characters, hire the best people and tell the best story and so I
00:43think when people knock on wood when they come out and see this they'll realize, you know, everyone
00:49did a pretty beautiful job and, you know, it's, I think we did a pretty, I think it's a pretty
00:55good little film. For sure and you take a look at Aaron Taylor-Johnson. What about him when you
01:00saw him went, this is, this is our guy? Actually there's this really beautiful music video for
01:07R.E.M. that his wife shot many years ago and he's just walking down the street in London,
01:13dancing, no nothing, just dancing to this R.E.M. song and the way he moves and the confidence
01:23and the way he used all the elements of the street to sort of, you know, do his, you know,
01:30it's this amazing thing. It goes on for like four minutes and it's just this kid and I, for some
01:36reason I saw that and then when I met him it was like, done. What do you think is the craziest stunt
01:42that he pulls off? Oh man, I think it has to be the London chase in the middle of the movie when he's,
01:48and a lot of that is, a lot of that is Aaron so it's pretty, but that London chase, it's in the
01:54middle of our movie and it really, I think it really is something that I grew up in London for
02:00five years, four years and to get to shoot that sequence there, it was like a dream come true.
02:06Very quickly, where do you see Craven's story going next and is there the possibility of kind
02:10of throwing Spider-Man into the mix? Yeah, I mean, let's hope this one works and then
02:16there's a lot of places he could go.