TheMonster Huntermovie adaption has sweep through down a output scratch date and a leading actress . The picture show is based on the Capcom television game franchise of the same name which has achievedworldwide acclaim and successsince its 2004 PlayStation 2 first appearance . Since then , there have been five installment in the mainMonster Hunterseries , the most recent beingMonster Hunter World , as well as a number of spinoffs for handheld , online and mobile savage search sessions .

Due to the success of theMonster Huntergames , particularly in Japan , the franchise has branched out into other medium which include a manga , an anime series and a trading menu biz , and the belongings is also set for the full Hollywood movie adaption treatment . Talk of aMonster Huntermovie set out as too soon as 2012 , withResident Evildirector Paul W. S. Andersonattached to steer . The undertaking went relatively hushed until 2016 when Capcomannounced ontogeny had begunon the film , with Anderson and manufacturer Jeremy Bolt obtaining the rights . Constantin Films is producing the movie .

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It is now being reported byVarietythatMonster Hunterhas castResident Evilstar Milla Jovovich in a lead role and will begin production in September with a $ 60 million budget . Monster Hunteris set to film in Cape Town , South Africa , the same location used forResident Evil : The Final Chapterand will feature special gist from Technicolor ’s Mr. X , the ship’s company who also worked on , you guess it , Resident Evil . Previous reports suggest that the plot of ground would involve a parallel " Monster Hunter " world bleeding over into the " real " world .

While it is n’t at all unusual for director to do work with the same people for multiple projects -Tim Burton and Johnny Depp made careers out of it , after all - it does certainly find like Constantin are essay to directly copy theirResident Evilsuccess withMonster Hunter . The fact that both are Constantin - made movies free-base on Capcom TV game , manoeuvre by Paul W. S. Anderson , bring on by Jeremy Bolt and starring Milla Jovovich betoken thatMonster Hunteris take the " if it ai n’t break , do n’t fix it " philosophy to an entirely novel level .

However , many would doubtless argue that theResident Evilfilms were very much broke . Although the franchise was mostly a financial success and the first motion-picture show is often considered one of the better examples of a picture biz - to - movie adaption , theResident Evilfranchise draw in mostly negative reviews throughout its six - film rill . Monster Hunterfans perhaps wo n’t be too delighted to acquire that more or less the precise same team will be drive a shot at their dear worldly concern of Wyverns and weapon craft in the near future .

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Monster Hunteris presently without a release appointment . More news as it arrives .

informant : Variety

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