Monster Hunter movie director Paul W.S. Anderson talks with SYFY WIRE about adapting games to film, favorite game franchises, & his approach to sequels.
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Six years after launching the first
Resident Evil movie, having passed off the franchise s next two sequels to other filmmakers, director Paul W.S. Anderson found a new videogame he would end up turning into another massive popcorn blockbuster. That was
Monster Hunter, a fantasy action-adventure title originated in Japan about a lone Hunter traveling across vast landscapes to take down gargantuan creatures, using their bones and carcasses to craft new indestructible weapons and armor. As of September of this year, the
Monster Hunter franchise has grown to stand beside
Resident Evil as one of Capcom s most lucrative gaming titles with 65 million units sold. It was one of Capcom s crown jewels, Anderson tells EW, so they required quite a lot of persuading to allow us to work on the movie.
Now taking up the protagonist’s role once again with Anderson in the director’s chair, Jovovich is slicing up theaters as we speak as Captain Artemis the key character in
Monster Hunter, another movie with roots in a major Capcom game series. As Artemis, Jovovich brings an entirely new face to the franchise, one not found in the video games. It’s the same strategy she and Anderson deployed with her original character Alice in the
Resident Evil films: a strategy aimed at helping viewers see things through a newcomer’s wide-open eyes.
Both in the games and in theaters,
Fallout games,
Halo 3,
Justice League Heroes), isn t familiar with Capcom s popular
Monster Hunter gaming series. If somebody gifted me with all of it, I wouldn’t know the first thing about how to remove it from the box much less turn it on and use it, he says. But that s where an elaborate costume, complete with a big, blonde wig that was almost even bigger and blonder, comes in to help orient him around this new world of monsters and mayhem.
In
Monster Hunter, Perlman plays the Admiral, a leader of a group of monster hunters, who forge immense weapons out of the bones and carcasses of the giant beasts that roam their world. (The Admiral gets a giant flaming axe.) Captain Artemis (Milla Jovovich) and her military troupe are on a search for their missing allies when they find themselves traveling to this alternate dimension. Perlman hasn t seen