MONSTER HUNTER: Paul W.S. Anderson Discusses Possible Video Game Adaptation

Paul W.S. Anderson Revisits Plans For Monster Hunter

Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson talks about his plans to adapt Capcom’s Monster Hunter video game franchise for the big screen.

Although it’s far from confirmed that production is underway on Monster Hunter, Anderson revealed that he is serious about adapting the video game into a film, with the director revealing the movie’s logline during an interview with Deadline:

“For every Monster, there is a Hero. An ordinary man in a dead end job discovers that he is actually the descendant of an ancient hero. He must travel to a mystical world to train to become a Monster Hunter, before the mythical creatures from that world destroy ours.”

He further elaborates on how the game’s protagonist free premise is helpful toward what they’re creating.

“There are no real central characters so it’s a bit like when we first approached Resident Evil and imposed our own characters and story on that world,” Anderson said. “I think this is a perfect IP for us to do exactly that same thing again. The Monster Hunter world 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…

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