Fans of Capcom’sMonster Hunterflew into a keyboard-clacking rage when actorDiego Bonetarevealed hisnot-so-mystical lookfrom directorPaul W.S. Anderson’s adaptation of the game (#NotMYMonsterHunter). Swooping into action,Milla Jovovichtook to Instagram to show off her character, Captain Natalie Artemis, rocking a much more fantasy-esque outfit and one of the game’s trademark weapons, a Slinger.
“Captain Natalie Artemis. Ranger. Monster Hunter,” Jovovich wrote. “Just a little peek for all the [Monster Hunter] fans out there who were worried the other day.”
The adaptation of the fantasy-action RPG, which originated on the PS2, will re-team Jovovich and Anderson—well, re-teamcreatively, seeing as how they’re married—who worked together on four of the sixResident Evilfilms.Monster Hunteris a project Anderson has been dreaming about on-and-off sinceat least 2012;the director and his producing partnerJeremy Boltofficially started shopping around the original script and VFX renderings in 2016.
Here’s what Andersonhad to say at the time:
What I love aboutMonster Hunteris the incredibly beautiful, immersive world they’ve created. It’s on the level of like aStar Warsmovie, in terms of world creation. There are no real central characters so it’s a bit like when we first approachedResident Eviland imposed our own characters and story on that world. I think this is a perfect IP for us to do exactly that same thing again. TheMonster Hunterworld includes these huge deserts that make the Gobi Desert look like a sandbox, and they have ships that sail through the sand. These full on galleons, but rather than sailing on the ocean waves, they sail through waves of sand.
The director also made it clear at the outset that he had his eye on creating an entire franchise:
It’s definitely intended to be a franchise because the movie starts in our world and then it goes to theMonster Hunterworld and then the final act comes back to our world and it’s basically this epic battle in and around LAX. Then at the end we’re 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.
Check out the image below.Monster Hunteralso starsRon Perlman,Tony Jaa, andMeagan Good.
