Aaron Taylor-Johnson is a double dipper.

The actor, whose character Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver was killed off in Avengers: Age of Ultron, is being resurrected as a member of the Marvel family to play Spider-Man villain Kraven the Hunter in Sony’s upcoming standalone movie, it was announced Wednesday.

Taylor-Johnson, who also played superhero in the Kick-Ass franchise, will take on the role of one of Spider-Man’s oldest enemies, playing a skilled hunter who targets the wall-crawler. Sony’s Kraven the Hunter film was first announced back in 2018, with Keanu Reeves rumored to take on the role at one point.

Reeves wasn’t the only A-lister name in the hat: Brad Pitt (Fight Club; Se7en), John David Washington (Tenet; BlacKkKlansman), and Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker; Marriage Story) were reportedly also considered by the studio. However, when execs saw Taylor-Johnson’s performance in David Leitch’s upcoming Bullet Train, they were so blown away they quickly offered him the part, according to Justin Kroll of Deadline. 

Kraven is one of the most iconic and notorious antiheroes in Sony’s stable of Marvel properties. He has had encounters with Venom and Black Panther, among many others, and is one of Spidey’s best-known and most formidable enemies. The film is set to bow on January 13th, 2023 and may even feature an appearance by the web-slinger himself.

In the comics, Kraven is a Russian aristocrat named, Sergei Kravinoff, an obsessive big-game hunter who was introduced as a Spider-Man villain in The Amazing Spider-Man #15 (1964), created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Kravinoff began as an ordinary hunter but wanted to take down large animals with his bare hands. A Voodoo witch doctor gave him an herbal potion which enhanced his physical powers with the strength, speed and senses of a jungle cat.

Over the years, Kraven was part of the original Sinister Six and was the centerpiece of the groundbreaking 1987 storyline “Kraven’s Last Hunt,” a crossover of The Amazing Spider-Man, Web of Spider-Man and Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man comics.

Taylor-Johnson signed on for multiple films, so there is a possibility he could make his debut in a different Spider-Man (or other Sony) film before headlining his own standalone feature. 

J.C. Chandor (Triple Frontier; A Most Violent Year) will direct the origin story, with Art Marcum and Matt Holloway (Iron Man; Uncharted) penning the screenplay along with Richard Wenk (The Equalizer; Jack Reacher: Never Go Back).