With Resident Evil: The Final Chapter in
post-production, franchise director Paul W.S. Anderson is looking ahead and has
set his sights on yet another Capcom video game property, Monster Hunter.
Per Deadline, Anderson and his Impact
Pictures producing partner Jeremy Bolt are teaming-up with the co-founder and
president of the Toronto-based VFX house Mr. X, Dennis Berardi, to sell the
project to interested studios, which shouldn't be too difficult considering the
game's worldwide appeal, particularly in China.
In Monster Hunter "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."
The RPG/action cross-platform
video game franchise has sold over 40 million units in the world, and has been
turned into an anime and book spinoffs.
Anderson and Bolt are
looking at a Monster Hunter as a potential franchise, and already have a clear
idea of where to go with the second movie.
"It’s definitely intended
to be a franchise because the movie starts in our world and then it goes to the Monster
Hunter world 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," Anderson said.
The last installment in the Resident
Evil franchise opens in theaters on January 27, and is expected to bring the
overall worldwide gross of the franchise well over the billion-dollar mark.
Source - Deadline
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