Current Events > Resident Evil star Milla Jovovich joins Monster Hunter adaptation

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Milla Jovovich is returning to the video game world. Variety reports production on Constantin Film's Monster Hunter, an adaptation of the Capcom game series, will begin in September, with the Resident Evil star reuniting with director Paul W.S. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt. The movie has a reported budget of $60 million.

Toronto's Technicolor-owned Mr. X, which also worked on the Resident Evil movie franchise, will supply special effects for the movie. Constantin Film's CEO Martin Moszkowicz said Monster Hunter will be a "highly sylish big screen adaptation of the video game," according to Variety, which seems to be part of the reason for Paul W.S. Anderson.

Paul has proven over and over he does stylish movies. Its one of his big strong points. He can make a movie look good, is very much into visuals, Moszkowicz said of the director. He added that Monster Hunter is envisioned as a series, saying, "We are in the business of brand creation."

Capcom announced on Wednesday that Monster Hunter: World had become the publisher's best-selling game of all-time, shipping 7.9 million copies since its release in January. But will the game's popularity translate to the box office? For what it's worth, the Resident Evil film franchise - despite negative reviews - is currently the highest-grossing film series based on a video game, with the six movies earning over $1.2 billion at the worldwide box office.

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/video_games/resident-evil-star-milla-jovovich-joins-monster-hunter-adaptation-a160525

Incoming video game kino.
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uh oh, so the director's wife is going to single-handedly hunt every monster in every scene.

Movie will be garbage.
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Movie will be garbage.

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Interest gone.
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ANDERSON: The central characters are very relatable American characters. You take a person from the ordinary world who thinks theyre in a dead end job, they have no future, they feel like their lifes a failure, its going nowhere, like Keanu Reeves in The Matrix. Its about a normal American who gets dragged into this parallel world, this Monster Hunter world. Then eventually the parallel world ends up coming to our world. So you have the creatures from the Monster Hunter world invading our world.

The mythology is that basically monsters are real and all the monsters and creatures from our mythology, whether dragons or the Minotaur, or Chinese dragons, its all real. They were real. They really existed in our world. For every monster there was a hero that fought the monster. And then those monsters just disappeared, overnight. They ceased to exist, as did our need for heroes. They became a thing of myth and legend, but eventually the monsters will come back. Unless we have a hero to help fight them, our world with be devastated by these returning creatures, after weve chosen to put our faith in technology rather than heroes. All of our technology wont mean anything once the dragons start raining fire.

DEADLINE: How far have you fleshed this out?

BOLT: Weve got about two movies. We will likely shoot in China or South Africa for a budget comparable to the final Resident Evil, about $50 million net.

ANDERSON: Its definitely intended to be a franchise because the movie starts in our world and then it goes to the Monster Hunter world and then the final act comes back to our world and its basically this epic battle in and around LAX. Then at the end were suddenly confronted with the fact that the mythological creatures of our world have come back to wreak vengeance. So we definitely have the second film where that would be planned out.

https://deadline.com/2016/11/monster-hunter-movie-resident-evil-paul-ws-anderson-jeremy-bolt-capcom-qa-1201856946/

Thanks, Capcom.
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Patchwork posted...

Movie will be garbage.

Hot, hot garbage. I'm just going to assume it will be nary indistinguishable from the Resident Evil movies.
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ultimate reaver posted...

Patchwork posted...

Movie will be garbage.

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Patchwork posted...

Movie will be garbage.

creativerealms posted...

Interest gone.

To be fair, nobody should've expected a Monster Hunter movie to be good to begin with, no matter who's in the lead role.
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give to The Rock. He knows how to polish a turd.

It's Monster Hunter, a series not known for it's story.
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Probably trash but Ill still watch it for Milla Jovovich.

Literally no one wants this
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The_Scarecrow posted...

ANDERSON: The central characters are very relatable American characters. You take a person from the ordinary world who thinks theyre in a dead end job, they have no future, they feel like their lifes a failure, its going nowhere, like Keanu Reeves in The Matrix. Its about a normal American who gets dragged into this parallel world, this Monster Hunter world. Then eventually the parallel world ends up coming to our world. So you have the creatures from the Monster Hunter world invading our world.

sounds like absolute asshole
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The_Scarecrow posted...

ANDERSON: The central characters are very relatable American characters. You take a person from the ordinary world who thinks theyre in a dead end job, they have no future, they feel like their lifes a failure, its going nowhere, like Keanu Reeves in The Matrix. Its about a normal American who gets dragged into this parallel world, this Monster Hunter world. Then eventually the parallel world ends up coming to our world. So you have the creatures from the Monster Hunter world invading our world.

The mythology is that basically monsters are real and all the monsters and creatures from our mythology, whether dragons or the Minotaur, or Chinese dragons, its all real. They were real. They really existed in our world. For every monster there was a hero that fought the monster. And then those monsters just disappeared, overnight. They ceased to exist, as did our need for heroes. They became a thing of myth and legend, but eventually the monsters will come back. Unless we have a hero to help fight them, our world with be devastated by these returning creatures, after weve chosen to put our faith in technology rather than heroes. All of our technology wont mean anything once the dragons start raining fire.

DEADLINE: How far have you fleshed this out?

BOLT: Weve got about two movies. We will likely shoot in China or South Africa for a budget comparable to the final Resident Evil, about $50 million net.

ANDERSON: Its definitely intended to be a franchise because the movie starts in our world and then it goes to the Monster Hunter world and then the final act comes back to our world and its basically this epic battle in and around LAX. Then at the end were suddenly confronted with the fact that the mythological creatures of our world have come back to wreak vengeance. So we definitely have the second film where that would be planned out.

https://deadline.com/2016/11/monster-hunter-movie-resident-evil-paul-ws-anderson-jeremy-bolt-capcom-qa-1201856946/

Thanks, Capcom.

So since the Resident Evil gravy train reached the end of the line they're gonna take Monster Hunter and turn it into a Transformers rip off. Lol
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The_Scarecrow posted...

The central characters are very relatable American characters. You take a person from the ordinary world who thinks theyre in a dead end job, they have no future, they feel like their lifes a failure, its going nowhere, like Keanu Reeves

stopped there
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Patchwork posted...

Movie will be garbage.

creativerealms posted...

Interest gone.

this.

Cal12 posted...

Probably trash but Ill still watch it for Milla Jovovich.

it's gonna be trash because Milla Jovovich.
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Can't wait for this. I love the Resident Evil films, especially the ones Paul W.S Anderson directed.

As a couple I bet they make bank making movies together.
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Raikuro posted...

uh oh, so the director's wife is going to single-handedly hunt every monster in every scene.

They will have actual characters from the games, but they will be there mostly to fawn over Mila.
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desperationR posted...

Can't wait for this. I love the Resident Evil films, especially the ones Paul W.S Anderson directed.

He directed all of the live-action movies, didn't he?

Edit: Apparently not :/
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Cal12 posted...

Probably trash but Ill still watch it for Milla Jovovich.

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008Zulu posted...

Raikuro posted...

uh oh, so the director's wife is going to single-handedly hunt every monster in every scene.

They will have actual characters from the games, but they will be there mostly to fawn over Mila.

They will all struggle against a basic ass mo ster until mila comes in an snaps its neck before moving onto slaying Diablos with nothing but a small knife
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I didnt know this was a thing, but it will be bad if Paul and his wife are involved. Its like they shoot roleplaying shit for Paul to jerk it.
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Remember when Jovovich was running around a futuristic city in nothing but bandages and orange hair?

Those were some good times.
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The_Scarecrow posted...

The mythology is that basically monsters are real and all the monsters and creatures from our mythology, whether dragons or the Minotaur, or Chinese dragons, its all real. They were real. They really existed in our world. For every monster there was a hero that fought the monster. And then those monsters just disappeared, overnight. They ceased to exist, as did our need for heroes. They became a thing of myth and legend, but eventually the monsters will come back. Unless we have a hero to help fight them, our world with be devastated by these returning creatures, after weve chosen to put our faith in technology rather than heroes. All of our technology wont mean anything once the dragons start raining fire.

This is literally every Shin Megami Tensei game.
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Welp. Liquor doesn't pay for itself.
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