Monster Hunter Movie's Milla Jovovich Shares New On-Set Photo To Reassure "Worried" Fans

The more they deviate from their source material, the worse video game movies get. Not even going to bother.

@BladedKnight I mean, what else would one expect from a franchise about beating the living daylights out of giant beasts, featuring talking cats.

Honestly, I don’t care they are adding in their own thing like an army using rifles etc. I honestly can’t imagine a monster hunter film working in the first place, you just can’t translate the Armor and weapons and still look good on the silver screen, it will either look like bad cosplay or it has to be full CG like the transformers autobots or Pacific Rims’ Jaegers.

I mean what I’m saying is either way, this monster hunter movie is going to be bad, I prefer they do their own thing and so I can watch it as a movie that is not Monster Hunter but with the name Monster Hunter than a Movie that tries to be Monster Hunter but fail as Monster Hunter.

This doesn't reassure anyone. If the plot uses a SINGLE ELEMENT not present within the world of Monster Hunter, it is RUINED before being made. There's no two ways to go about it.

@BladedKnight Oh, but they can. It's a choice, not a privilege given to specific adaptations.

Nope. I hold Paul Anderson in very low regard. Baffled how he gets his ego on such renowned ip and turns them into generic vehicles for his wife

Wasn't interested in this until I saw she was in it. To be honest I loved all the Resident Evil Films. Even though they had hardly anything to do with the games, they were just easy to watch graphic violence.

Not even Multi Pass that will save you this time...

I mean, no one was ever expecting this to be good, right?

Well, that's certainly a Slinger from World and she has one of the standard Dual Blade sets. So yeah.

It'll be trash, but at least it won't be completely unrelated trash

@GrailUK Preeetty much. I enjoyed the first RE as a game lore adaptation, but the rest I just hold as zombie action flicks unrelated to the name. Like Doom.
I'm waiting for the eventual collaboration of Uwe and Anderson

@Shiryu The Fifth Element the ONLY good film that Milla Jovovich was in.

Why is no Monster Hunter fan not forming an angry mob to go after this madman Paul Anderson?

Did Milla Jovovich signed a contract with Capcom?

DMC has better material for movies.

No.

Guess we will see, Milla... we will see...

@shaneoh Hey come on, she was in Resident Evil and that was true to the Source mater....sorry i cant keep a straight face..this is going to be terrible.

God help us all. Modern day soldier falls in love with female monster hunter. I wonder if that's how the director feels he'll attract us gaming nerds to the movie. Wow!

Why didnt they just make GATE into this movie instead?

I understand that Mila and the crew are attempting to reassure the fans this is gonna be a Monster Hunter movie through and through and not some military action flick but if the stigma stays true it's gonna suck. Honstley, I hope I'm wrong but the track record doesn't raise anyone's hopes. Now I hope I don't come across as some "Video Game Elitist" but they have almost 15 years of Monster Hunter History to use and they're just showing us a slinger from the most recent game? I get it's Capcoms breakthrough to the American audience with a monster Hunter game but still I want more and better evidence it's worth my time as a fan of MonHun since the ps2 days. I guess I just need more evidence that this movie isn't just going to do the whole " Oh No! A portal to another world opened up and for some reason our military can't kill these monsters coming through, but these 3 special people who got training from the natives on the other side of the portal can with big ass swords!"

Nobody plays Monster Hunter for the plot we play it for the game-play. Without the game-play what are we left with? A direct-to-dvd sci-fi monster film, only with a bigger budget.

I KNEW she would have a big role

@GrailUK - Yes, this is shaping up to be the W S Anderson Hollywood employment project part 2.

The Resident Evil movies are universally thought of as bad movies...they make money I assume, but I would imagine the name sells them, not the quality of the films.

Unless the movie has a minimum of 6 hours grinding for materials and skins for end-game armor, I will scoff at it's authenticity and give it a hard pass. 10 hour minimum movie time, or it's not following the source material.

@Shiryu All I can think to say is "Pleasse Heelp" this movie!

@Retupmocnin mila could coslplay as trish rofl

@TossedLlama Yeah it’s being directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, who has made approximately 0 good movies in his career.

The mere fact that this is another vehicle for the director’s wife is cause enough to be worried.

@Robzilla actually Event horizon is his best work to date

@shaneoh That's not it. Warcraft was very close to the source material. And yet the movie is utter garbage.

@In_Ex_Fan I really loved Warcraft! It was a great movie.

I guess there's so many people, so many tastes haha:)

With the involvement of Paul W. S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich we all know what this movie will be like. That's at least something. Of you like it or not is another thing.

@erv It's awesome if you did! I wanted the movie to be so much more. It could have been the next big fantasy thing after Lord of the Rings, but they dropped the ball on that one. I don't think we'll get a sequel for it. And I still don't get why anyone would ever sculpt a golem with abs.

Let's see. half of the games on the market to day are interactive movies with completely developed interactive worlds. There's Uncharted, God of War, Red Dead, etc. There's Fallout, TES, etc about exploring lush worlds with tons of diverse things going on. Worlds with endless lore and little canon like Dark Souls.

Let's take the one video game that's more video gamey than most, that revolves around fixed generic arenas with reskins of the same few dozen monsters, that's focused upon OCD fixations with mastering button combos and dodge frames via endless practice and repetition of the same fights, looting, then crafting gear endlessly to meet specs desired....and turn it into an action film!

tis still my opinion the dragons shown in the preview and the picture above look more like plastic models, very detailed and nice looking, but it still just looks like those high dollar table top D&D figures, not even the incredibly realistic puppet used in the 80's movie "Dragonslayer", nor cgi, which i guess cgi that does not look like cgi is a good think, it still looks terribly fake will this movie be the next Mario Bros. or Resident Evil (not bad but not a very good representation of the game), or the very bad DOOM ??? who knows, but as videogame movies go, they don't have a very good record and neither do most Jovovitch movies

I'm just excited they are making a big budget movie at all. Everyone is so hard to please these days. The Resident Evil films were enjoyable for the most part, but could have been much better. Up until 3 Musketeers and Pompei I thought Paul WS Anderson was a pretty good direction. Hopefully he brings his Resident Evil and Event Horizon game to this project.

Milla Jovovich is awesome. She had no reason to try and reassure fans - PR is not among her duties - but she did anyway.

I wouldn't be surprised if fellow Capcom movie adaptation Resident Evil - which she starred in - turned her into a gaming fan.

Resident evil movies are a guilty pleasure and I unironically like AVP.

I'd argue that her armor looks a lot more like a combat suit than they thought it'd be.

@AlexSora89 my guess is that they told her to do it. Otherwise I'm sure she'd be breaking her NDA pretty badly. Either way, there has never been a good movie based on a game, no one knows how to do it.

@hirokun
The last Tomb Raider movie would like to say hello.

These are the only two characters in the movie and it's really only one 65 minute scene with Jovovich and the marine guy fighting one of the beast for that ammount of time doing minuscule damage with each attack.

Would that be close enough to the source material? Let's be honest for a sec shall we? The game isn't the most story rich and the action(at least in older games) was pretty redundant. So let's think about how closely we want it to resemble the source material. I just dont know how they are going to create these awesome weapons to fight these monsters. Why? Because these weapons usually look like they could slay any beast with a single blow. But if they are to remain true to the source material, you can't have the heroes one hit killing anything. Well anything besides the crappiest and smallest of foes. Mr. Anderson in pretty much dammed if he does and likewise if he doesn't.

@jpfan1989
but AvP wasn't originally a game, it was a popular comic book series first

Was that supposed to cause a better impression? It’s directed by the same guy who made a series of terrible RE adaptations.

@BladedKnight
It still works well as a movie. It helps that I didn't play the game, but saw some comparisons and I have to say, what wth the cinematic route most of the gaming industry is going lately, given how the game played a lot like a movie, I'm not complaining with how the movie turned out.

@jhewitt3476 its still something nearly every other person brings up when trashing Paul ws Anderson

@jpfan1989
I personally loved the 1st AvP movie, not the others so much, I don't know this Anderson guy, I do like that movie, I own most Alien, Predator, Alien/Predator and the first Prometheus movie because I generally like them as a franchise, but some could have been better done, have not seen Prometheus 2 yet, so can't judge.

but as actual videogame movies go (the ones directly converted, not ones about videogames) I have yet to be completely or even mildly impressed, except for the Tron series, awesomely done, both, anyway, it's just too hard to squeeze a whole game mythos into a 90-120 minute movie, plus since no one wants to spend a really large budget on those types of movies, it's difficult to get decent resources and actors, so at best, mediocre movies are made, but usually not even that,

even with some better actors, videogames just have too much trouble, I saw DOOM was on Netflix the other day, so i checked it out, by the end i felt I wasted 2 hours of my life, it sucked, Castlevania interestingly is an AWESOME show, animated, but fantastically done, I just think, even though I'd like to see some games on the silver screen, like Metroid or a live Knuckles the Echidna, and DEFINITELY the Force Unleashed, I'm positive they just can't be done right at all

Anderson’s movies are not high art. They’re not beautifully acted. But they always look nice. And in a silly, throwaway, nonsense way... they can be quite fun. That’s why the Resident Evil movies made so much money.

He has done some terrible films that aren’t redeemable (Three Musketeers) and he’s done an incredible movie (Event Horizon). So we shall see.

But it’s not worth getting upset over.

Seeing Mila Jovovich in this movie makes me think it will be worse, not better.

Why do they keep trying to force the military into movies based off Capcom games? They did the same thing with the first Street Fighter movie. At least in that one it somewhat made sense because of Guile.

I was not worried at all, until they showed me the photo.

@westman98
Milla Jovovich is a gorgeous face, this is true, but the only movie I like that she was in was a movie where her first scene was wearing a white ribbon across her breasts and another across her crotch....

even then, if you actually analyze her acting in that movie, she was hardly involved and every other movies i have seen her in larger parts were great disappointments, like some others, now that i know she is in a movie, I worry more, combind that with a videogame movie and I'm thinking a weapon of mass destruction for use against Russia or North Korea, it will cause them all to commit suicide