Whether you're open to the idea of it or not, a live-action movie based on Capcom's insanely popular video game franchise Monster Hunter is currently in the works. So far we've got glimpses of multiple characters from the movie and even some animations of the monsters that will be on display throughout it.
In the latest update, we get another look at Milla Jovich as the movie's heroine Natalie Artemis and also our very first glimpse of a hunter, played by Tony Jaa - the famous martial artist and stuntman from Thailand. As described in the Tweet below, Jaa's character is wielding a Giant Jawblade and Great Hunter's Bow. According to IGN, his costume patterns are based on the Field Team Leader from the recently released Monster Hunter World game. Milla's character is carrying a pair of Dual Blades, a carving knife and slinger on her left arm.
Screen Gems has released the official synopsis for the film as well:
Behind our world, there is another: a world of dangerous and powerful monsters that rule their domain with deadly ferocity. When Lt. Artemis (Milla Jovovich) and her loyal soldiers are transported from our world to the new world, the unflappable lieutenant receives the shock of her life. In her desperate battle for survival against enormous enemies with incredible powers and unstoppable, revolting attacks, Artemis will team up with a mysterious man who has found a way to fight back.
In a phone interview with IGN, the film's director Paul W.S. Anderson - currently on set in South Africa - said all the armour and equipment for the character played by Milla was directly taken from the game. As any fan would hope, the landscapes have also been inspired by the video game:
The beauty of the costumes and the landscapes from the Monster Hunter game really kind of came out in that image... She [Milla Jovovich] is the game player, in a way, she is the audience’s avatar, their way into the world
There’s a more lush part of the movie, which kind of reflects the kind of lush, more jungle-y look of the Monster Hunter world. And then the climax of the movie takes place around a piece of the Ancient Civilization that’s, it’s kind of referenced many times in the Monster Hunter games.
Do you any more faith in the upcoming Monster Hunter movie? Let us know with a comment below.
[source au.ign.com]
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"Could probably bring down a beast with his fist"
I believe he could.
I don't understand why you would cast someone as incredible as Tony Jaa and give him a big heavy weapon like the Great Sword and not give him something light like Dual Blades
"all the armour and equipment for the character played by Milla was directly taken from the game"
Then I wonder why after playing all the Monster Hunter games I've NEVER seen a automatic gun
This smells like Hollywood roses
I still have yet to see a single cat. Are they even in this movie?
@Rayquaza2510 she doesn’t have a gun in the picture.
He looks cool, she doesn't.
Why does Milla's outfit look like a copy and paste of her Resident Evil outfit with a few small detail changes..?
Could they not have made something more bulky?
@Yosheel this picture no, but there are pictures from the movie where she had a regular automatic gun.
Not to mention there are military cars in that movie too.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Nightknight498/status/1059362457762840576
I'm not saying this movie will be bad as a movie, as a movie it could be OK but as a monster Hunter movie it's terrible, it's a generic human vs monster movie Hollywood style with a game license as a excuse.
Capcom should refused to let Anderson make this movie because he knows how to screw any licensed movie, not to mention Jovich is his wife and he always looks for a excuse to put her in them.
I have a feeling this flick's going to make The Super Mario Bros. Movie look like Citizen Kane.
This movie's going to be terrible. And to those thinking, "I'm gonna give it a chance, you can't just judge it from 1 screenshot". Think about how many Video game based movies you said that about, and think about how many were actually good adaptations that were faithful to the source material? Since this flat-out has the modern day military in it you can already tell the Source material means garbage to them.
I really hope this movie isn’t terrible, but unfortunately we have Hollywood doing its usual tricks of mixing the real world with a fantasy one to try and explain the reason for the monsters.
No matter how well they do that, it isn’t going to be true to the games.
I personally believe the game designers have already created a world and characters that are good enough to stand alone in a movie. Movie goers are not dumb fools, they can understand fantasy worlds without needing the real world to get them into it. Let them use their imaginations a bit.
@Rayquaza2510 Have you not played Monster Hunter World ? The heavy gun has an automatic gun ability, just saying.
@Gameday But... A heavy gun is a heavy gun. With an MH design. She's carrying a teeny tiny machinegun. In actual real life-reminiscent design. Not to mention the "heavy gun" in MHW is a HEAVY BOWGUN. BOWGUN. NOT GUN.
No matter how you twist and turn it and line up the features, it breaks immersion and the source material has already been burnt at the stake because they're not being serious, instead opting for the typical "oh we came in from "the real world" and are now gonna help the inhabitants beat up this new menace we have no idea how to fight but will still beat up 10 times better than people with 40+ years experience fighting them."
Isekai. The curse never ends.
EDIT: Oh, and basing anything on MHW also just shows how Hollywood-like the movie is going to be. Base your movie on the worst game in the franchise, right.
Cheap Cosplayers ...
Tony Jaa really looks the part methinks, could be a side character from the game or Manga. Milla does not though... ^_^'
Tony Jas does indeed look like a Hunter, which is great to see.
Mila looks like she was ripped straight from the last few Resident Evil films.
@Kienda Yeah! I don't understand why it couldn't just be set in the Monster Hunter world as if it was the only world that exists, we don't need to have parallel universes/dimensions and portals etc. so that we can imagine ourselves there. Also, having subtitles while the characters spoke the "Monster Hunter language" would be cool but that would be asking for too much.
Same director of that awful 3 Musketeers film. Think I'll give it a pass
This just looks like millia fell from the resident evil universe and into the monster hunter one...
....ARE WE LOOKING AT A CAPCOM SHAIRED MOVIE UNIVERSE 😲
Will the cats be replaced by a lost viewtiful Joe and original mega man?
I'm giving Paul W Anderson too much credit aren't I lol
1 It's directed by paul anderson. 2 It's got milla jovovich. Its gonna suck.
@Rayquaza2510 Capcom main objective here is money. It's obvious they don't care about making a quality movie if they chose the man behind the worst part of the Resident Evil universe.
I'd say the films are even worse than RE6.
The costumes look straight out of a bad PG-13 90s action movie. The monster effects are going to look like cheap syfy cgi. The plot doesn’t make any sense. Hopefully it goes all in on the terribleness so that it’s not just a bore. Looks like alcohol and some close friends are all that’s needed for this to be a good time.
MonHun fandom on the left, Paul W. S. Anderson on the right.
Oh no, Tony Jaa... why'd you do this to yourself?
Every word I read about this brings my expectations lower. And they didn't start out very high to begin with. Hard pass.
As a long time video game veteran and huge MonHun fan, I am obligated to see this even though I'm almost certain it'll be crap. I paid to see the Super Mario Bros. movie too...
I had been abstaining from leaving comments on anything related to this piece of trash for a while now, but wowee do I need to vent.
First off, there's zero love for the source material. I'm not wholly unconvinced that they didn't just watch the intro fight to MH4U (the Dah'ren Mohran fight in the Great Desert) and just assume the game was like that (also explains the presence of Gore Magala in their early CG tests for the movie since he's 4U's flagship), before rewriting everything to fit World's aesthetic and equipment because it's a cheap cashgrab trying to capitalise on the newest, admittedly crazy popular entry.
Because Monster Hunter... a game with varied, gorgeous, unique environments and equipment aesthetic (especially in earlier game installments, since World dropped the ball HARD on the creative and colorful designs and even still it wasn't as drab as this movie), apparently equals out to sand, brown, and more sand, and the worst possible starting equipment they could have chosen.
I would have genuinely rather them have gone with a kaiju film and double-down on being extremely campy about it (with the appropriate colorful, campy gear) than write up this offensive piece of garbage.
Ugh... for the love of god, I hope the 3D animated special turns out good... At least the concept art for that has the appropriate aesthetic (and muh girl Nerscylla!).
@patbacknitro18 I have no doubt it's gonna be bad, but I'm gonna give it the benefit of the doubt for now until I see a new trailer.
@Spookypatrol 3D animated special what?
@MegaVel91 It's called Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild and it's slated for next year. Being worked on by Pure Imagination Studios and Joshua Fine, and is focused on a hunter leaving his hometown to take on an Elder dragon. No more details yet, and no footage, but the concept art shows someone who looks a lot like the Ace Commander from 4 fighting Nerscylla. So people are hoping it's the Ace Commander's backstory.
of all people Tony Jaa? that is totally bad ass lol
Unfortunatly the movie is a trash.
@MegaVel91 if the action is good enough regardless of the plot then yeah, it's worth a watch, I'm going to watch this when it's available for streaming or something but I'm hyped now that Tony Jaa is on board.
@CrimsonMoonMist lol at least the action will be good now 😂
I can't WAIT to see the CinemaSins "Everything Wrong With" take on this.
Anybody else thinking this might be the spiritual successor to "DragonBall Evolution"?
Milla "Jovich" lol
I'm a big monster Hunter fan but this movie isnt just for fans of the game. The resident evil movies were successful for a reason. Hollywood has to see the bigger picture and appeal to a much wider audience than just monster Hunter fans.
The masses won’t give a crap or even be able to get immersed into the lore of the original Monster Hunter settings and world. So tying it in with something people can relate to well actually be better for sales and to get people to watch the movie.
When we want something officially legitimate to the source material that’ll probably be side projects and animations like the upcoming 3-D animated movie and you know some anime hopefully but nothing big but just like this, at least not yet.
@Shiryu Why is no fandom not forming an angry mob go after this madman? Why is no Monster Hunters fans going after the inhuman Paul Anderson? This criminal must be stop.
Tony Jaa is in this??? Ok, I might have to see it now...
@Tsurii World did sell a metric ton of copies compared to any other Monster Hunter, so it stands to reason that any director would draw from that entry if the goal is to sell tickets to people familiar with the source material. And well, the goal is to sell tickets.
Sorry that the designs didn't cater to your personal preference of Monster Hunter entry, but among all the things they could get wrong with this film (and they seemingly will botch many), the selection of source material isn't.
@LaytonPuzzle27 Nah, people who wish certain people dead over something as inoffensive as a movie (really, there are bigger problems in the world out there) are more likely to drag the world down.
@NESlover85 To be fair, he'd probably use his knee.
@Shiryu Don't get on Paul Verhoeven's case. That dude is amazing.
This is Paul WS Anderson. Guaranteed crap.
It is a well known fact that a film with no connection to our earth, beyond human characters, could never be successful. Not even if you set it a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
@Toshiro_Baloney My mistake, I meant Paul W. S. Anderson obviously.
I've upgraded my feelings from "oh boy" to "cautiously optimistic", and that's giving A LOT of credit based on only screenshots. At this point, I'm only at the convinced level of the Street Fighter movie where some characters "looked" the part, but it still couldn't save the movie as a whole. I need a trailer before I will truly "believe" in this movie.
@Varkster If you played the games, then you would know that the less armour women have, the stronger they become. It is not particularly a bad thing.insert Lenny face here
@Blizzia I hear you, though i had no faith in the movie as soon as i seen who was behind it. A man can dream though, as for MHW being the worst in the series i can't agree with that my friend. I didn't' do any digging into the story etc i did see a couple of pictures and some of the supporting cast. So you're saying it is based on MHW ? If so interesting but it makes sense due to how well this game did in this series, don't you think ?
@Gameday If I'm not remembering it wrong there was an article on it being based on mhw (not as in following mhw story, but based on the mhw game in "spirit" I guess.)
Sure it makes sense due to how well the game did by stripping MH elements and turning them into braindead mainstream elements fit for the people who insist on buying CoD and FIFA yearly with little to no upgrades.
But that doesn't make it good source material.
@Blizzia Fair enough ha, to be honest i've played and own every game since Tri on the Wii and loved them all (would of played the old ones if i had the systems back then etc) personally i've appreciated every entry in the series with the new mechanics and boldness to try something different after more than a handful of games under their belt.
I'm very curious now, as to what elements they strip from the previous games vs MHW in your opinion ? Either way a Monster Hunter film came way out left field for me. If it's horrible then so be it, i didn't care for what they did with RE movie series either. I can say it was interesting enough to check out at least once ha. I liked the CGi films better but that's indeed Hollywood for you, cash cows and remakes on top of remakes ~
@Gameday The list is long, but I'll give you the main issues:
1. Upgrade trees simplified to oblivion (not nearly enough variety)
2. Monster variety is super low
3. Fireflies... Sigh. No exploration to it anymore, just follow the fireflies.
4. Player feels like a superhero compared to earlier MH games while monsters aren't more powerful than before - severe issues with player power vs monster power scale
5. MHW uses damage numbers and tells you when you can capture a monster - big nono there. Takes all of the excitement out of it. You're not supposed to know when you can capture it or how much damage you've done. That removes all the intensity of the fight and makes it more generic.
6. MHW doesn't require gathering tools to gather... Wot?
7. (neutral) bigger seamless zones but not as inspired and well-made as the segmented ones of MHGU. Kind of a double-edged sword.
8. MHW doesn't have negative skill points, and skills don't need a high point threshold to activate. Dumbed down like mad.
9. Auto-crafting and dumbed down item combinations in mhw... Sigh.
10. Gathering doesn't feel weighty, it's like you're snatching things at the speed of light and on your way. It doesn't take 0.5 seconds to grab a bunch of plants. You need to find the right one, detach it at the right point and make sure you're not getting involved with poisonous plants while doing so.
11. Palico system dumbed down in mhw.
12. Game gives you all the info, doesn't inspire you to seek it out. There is something magical in exploring upgrade trees and figuring out monster weak points and such. Also in tracking the monster yourself.
Lot of things wrong with MHW in my opinion. There were a few nice things, though I feel they were badly implemented. Two of those would be the radial menu, and changing gear during missions.
@Blizzia Haha, okay there are a few things there i could agree with and indeed there are some changes for the better. There isn't enough variation of weapons and monsters, we were spoiled in previous installments for sure. I do miss tracking down monsters and using paint, i miss Capture Guru being a thing. I don't mind the damage meter it feels good to know if you landed a critical etc. I use to try to introduce people to the game and they'd be like how do you know when its almost dead etc and i'd explain when it limps away or heads to its final resting spot. So basically they didn't like the fact the monsters didn't have health bars but i agree that's what made the game fun and more of an interesting battle.
The gathering stuff wasn't so bad in the older games though people always complained about the gathering missions etc so i see why they changed it overall. Also i wonder why they got rid of the negative skill points, the skill tree wasn't hard to understand once you dived into it at all. As for the gathering tools, having infinite tools already supplied to you did take away from the preparation and prepared hunters of the game indeed. I don't know how many times people have quit cause they've come unprepared or i had to bring extra everything so these guys wouldn't just stand around or rage out ha.
As for the palico system i do miss the fun games they came up with to level them etc, they have no training camp or anything in this game. Them giving us too much info on the field, i will agree there too, they took away from the magic of exploring to keep the game more fluent i suppose.. I never use the radial menu its unreliable for me and finally the changing and restocking mid battle was abit of a strange decision especially when their game was known for basically punishing the weak for coming unprepared or simply wearing the wrong armor set. Anyhow, overall i'm not disappointed but i'm not complaining too much either. Monster Hunter World is a good look in my opinion and assures the future of the series, hell with 10 million copies plus i expect more spin offs etc.
@Bliquid Haha no worries man, i'll hear everyone out and leave my thoughts alongside there's any day. Sounds like Blizzia has played the game though don't you think ? It's a different story otherwise haha, i hear you though, i know a ton of my friends from back in the wii days that dont own anything but Nintendo consoles. They were upset indeed when they found out no port for Switch.
Strangely enough the clunky gameplay for me is what gave it more charm ha, when you first go in your like why does this feel so weird but when you master it and look beyond those hiccups and start to truly experience the atmosphere the game was built in, it seems to go together hand and hand. Personally i never had a problem with any of that but can see why most would feel otherwise. You remind me of my other friend, everytime a new hunter would come out he'd say the same exact thing "i could never go back" ha too funny but totally understandable ~
"Behind our world, there is another: a world of dangerous and powerful monsters that rule their domain with deadly ferocity. When Lt. Artemis (Milla Jovovich) and her loyal soldiers are transported from our world to the new world,"
I had to stop here, the cringe factor was too high.
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