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*United Kingdom, [[China]], Taiwan - December 4, 2020
*United Kingdom, [[China]], Taiwan - December 4, 2020
*[[United States]] - December 18, 2020
*[[United States]] - December 18, 2020
*Ukraine - January 14, 2021<ref>{{Cite web|title=Monster Hunter — trailer, release date in Ukraine|url=https://planetakino.ua/movies/monster-hunter/|website=Film Planet|accessdate=2020-11-18|language=uk-UA}}</ref>
*[[Japan]] - March 26, 2021
*[[Japan]] - March 26, 2021
==Alternate titles==
==Alternate titles==
*'''''Monster Hunter the Movie''''' {{Nihongo|映画 モンスターハンター|Eiga Monsutā Hantā|alternate Japanese title}}
*'''''Monster Hunter the Movie''''' {{Nihongo|映画 モンスターハンター|Eiga Monsutā Hantā|alternate Japanese title}}

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Monster Hunter
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Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
Producer Jeremy Bolt, Paul W. S. Anderson, Dennis Berardi, Robert Kulzer,
Martin Moszkowicz
Written by Paul W. S. Anderson
Distributor SonyUS, Towa PicturesJP, TencentCH
Rating PG-13
Budget $60,000,000
Running time 103 minutes
(1 hour, 43 minutes)
Aspect ratio 2.35:1
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3.22
(18 votes)

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Monster Hunter (モンスターハンター,   Monsutā Hantā) is a 2020 American-Japanese giant monster movie produced by Screen Gems, Impact Pictures, Constantin Film, Tencent Pictures and Toho. It is based on Capcom's video game franchise of the same name. The film was released to American theaters on December 18, 2020 and will be released in Japan by Towa Pictures, a subsidiary of Toho, on March 26, 2021.

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Plot

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Staff

Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.

  • Directed by   Paul W. S. Anderson
  • Produced by   Jeremy Bolt, Paul W. S. Anderson, Dennis Berardi, Robert Kulzer, Martin Moszkowicz
  • Music by   Paul Haslinger
  • Cinematography by   Glen MacPherson
  • Edited by   Doobie White
  • Production design by   Edward Thomas
  • Assistant directors   Peter Freeman, Simon Green, Cameron Hadlow
  • Sound design by   Brandon Kim
  • Visual effects supervisor   Dennis Berardi

Cast

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

  • Milla Jovovich   as   Lieutenant Natalie Artemis
  • Tony Jaa   as   The Hunter
  • Clifford "T.I." Harris, Jr.   as   Link
  • Ron Perlman   as   The Admiral
  • Hirona Yamazaki   as   The Handler
  • Nanda Costa   as   Serious Handler
  • Nic Rasenti   as   Sergeant Roark
  • Aaron Beelner   as   Meowscular Chef
  • Jannik Schümann   as   Aiden/Excitable A-Lister
  • Schelaine Bennett   as   Comms Officer
  • Adrián Muñoz   as   Hunter #2
  • Meagan Good   as   Sergeant Dash
  • Diego Boneta   as   Sergeant Marshall
  • Josh Helman
  • Jin Au-Yeung

Appearances

Monsters

  • Greater Rathalos
  • Black Diablos
  • Nerscylla
    • Nerscylla eggs
    • Nerscylla hatchlings
  • Apceros
  • Meowscular Chef
  • Cephalos
  • Gore Magala
  • Dah'ren Mohran (skeleton)
  • Lagiacrus (statues)

Weapons, Vehicles, and Races

  • Dragonship
  • Dragonator
  • Sky Tower
  • HMMWV
  • Osprey
  • DPV
  • Boeing E-3 Sentry
  • M1 Abrams
  • Ancient Civilization (mentioned)

Development

On May 11, 2012, Punch Drunk Critics reported a rumor that director Paul W. S. Anderson expressed his desire to direct a film adaption of the Monster Hunter video game franchise. On September 15, 2016, during Tokyo Game Show, Capcom producer Ryozo Tsujimoto announced that a live-action Hollywood adaption of Monster Hunter was in development with details kept under wraps. Two months later, Deadline reported that director Paul W. S. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt, who both previously adapted Capcom's Resident Evil series, announced that after five years of discussion with Capcom, they had obtained the rights to produce the film adaption of Monster Hunter. Anderson has stated he was drawn to the franchise not only because of its established popularity but also the "incredibly beautiful, immersive world they've created", expressing interest in wanting to turn it into a cinematic universe. Anderson already penned a script involving an American everyman dragged into a parallel universe set in the world of Monster Hunter, learning to fight monsters as well as dealing with a situation of monsters crossing over and appearing on Earth including a final climatic battle at Los Angeles International Airport".

Later in October 15, 2020, Anderson elaborated more details of the early script which was based on a 2009 pitch with the movie aiming for a young adult audience akin to other popular films at the time such as Harry Potter, Twilight and Percy Jackson. The draft had a similar premise to the Matrix, with characters from the Monster Hunter world coming to our world looking for “The One”, who ends up being a “bullied, quite clumsy” 16-year-old boy named Lucas. This version of the script indicated that monsters and dragons from various mythologies and cultures around the world are infact monsters from the Monster Hunter realm and that each time this happened, a hero would emerge to dispatch the monsters with Lucas chosen to be the next one. However, this version would go unproduced with Anderson stating “By the time I came back to Monster Hunter, 'young adult' was kind of buried six feet underground with a stake through its heart. Nobody wanted to make young adult. The days of Twilight were over. It's like, ‘No, no more young adults,’ and I'm like, ‘Oh, well, I better change that then." While this version would go ultimately unproduced visual effects company Mr. X would upload a 2017 effects reel which featured brief footage based on this version of the script featuring the monsters Rathalos and Gore Magala battling inside a mall. Eventually, a new script would be greenlit, inspired by films such as Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and James Cameron's Avatar.

On May 21, 2017, Variety.com reports German film production and distribution company Constantin Film announced they are producing the film and aimed for production in late 2017 to 2018. On May 11, 2018. Variety announced Milla Jovovich was set to star as the film's lead. On September 25, 2018, Clifford "T.I." Harris and Ron Perlman were announced to costar alongside Tony Jaa, who was announced as "the Hunter". Along with Perlman’s Admiral character, Tony Jaa's hunter is based on characters that appear in the 2018 videogame Monster Hunter: World. Harris is set to portray Link, a sniper in Jovovich's then-unnamed character's military team. On October 01, 2018, Actor Diego Boneta was announced to join the cast as well, playing another character in the military. His character was later identified as Sergeant Marshall, a communications specialist.

On October 4, 2018, The Hollywood reporter reports alongside Constantin Film, Toho will co-finance the video game adaptation and distribute it in Japan. Anderson, in a interview with Slashfilm, would later confirm that another character from Monster Hunter: World, The Handler, is set to appear and that the monsters set to appear in the film all originate from the games, with none of them being original creations.

Marketing

On November 20, 2018, IGN released a first look featuring stills of Milla Jovovich and Tony Jaa running through a desert while wielding a Great Sword and Hunter's Bow. Jovovich can be seen armed with a slinger, a device first introduced in Monster Hunter: World. During the Shanghai International Film Festival, a teaser was shown alongside an announcement that Toho and Tencent would distribute the film in Asian territories. The footage was leaked on June 17, 2019 through the Monster Hunter Asia Facebook Fan page, showing glimpses of Diablos and Rathalos. On October 3, 2020, IGN and Sony Pictures' respective YouTube channels uploaded a 16-second teaser featuring Black Diablos. Later on October 8, the official Twitter account for PlayStation would tweet another teaser featuring more footage of the Black Diablos as well as Tony Jaa’s character firing at it with a bow.

On October 10, 2020, New York Comic-Con Online hosted a panel with director Paul W. S. Anderson and Interviewer Matt Patches, featuring the first look at the movie's Rathalos. Anderson elaborated that the Rathalos featured is, in fact, a Greater Rathalos which a much larger individual than those seen within the games. Further info hints that its large size is the result of its association with an ancient civilization that is an established part of Monster Hunter lore. Later the same day, Sony Pictures' YouTube account would upload a vignette featuring Anderson sitting down and speaking to Ryozo Tsujimoto and Kaname Fujioka, the respective Producer and Director of the Monster Hunter videogame franchise, as well as the reveal of the herbivorous monster Apceros's presence within the film. On October 14, 2020, the first full length trailer is released alongside an alternate international trailer with the former revealing the appearance of Nerscylla and Gore Magala.

On November 19, 2020, the official IGN YouTube channel released a Chinese trailer featuring the first glimpse of the film's Meowscular Chef. On November 24, 2020, the official Monster Hunter YouTube channel uploaded a promotional collaboration announcement for Monster Hunter World: Iceborne. Two singleplayer event quests, “The New World” and “To Our World”, were revealed. The player plays as Artemis, with voice lines provided by Jovovich herself. A special layered set of armor is the reward for hunting a Black Diablos and an enlarged Rathalos, both references to Artemis' opponents in the film.

On November 30, 2020, the Monster Hunter movie's Twitter would tweet a 16-second video featuring multiple monsters. Cephalos, a small shark-like monster that swims through sand, was revealed to be in the film. And on December 3, 2020, the page would upload a video featuring official size measurements for Nerscylla, Apceros, Diablos and Rathalos, respectively.

Gallery

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Theatrical releases

  • Germany, Netherlands, Austria - December 3, 2020
  • United Kingdom, China, Taiwan - December 4, 2020
  • United States - December 18, 2020
  • Ukraine - January 14, 2021[1]
  • Japan - March 26, 2021

Alternate titles

  • Monster Hunter the Movie (映画 モンスターハンター,   Eiga Monsutā Hantā, alternate Japanese title)
  • MonHun (モンハン,   Monhan, Japanese abbreviated title)

Videos

Trailers

First teaser
Official trailer
International trailer
Chinese trailer
Japanese Diablos teaser
Japanese trailer
Japanese 30-second trailer

Miscellaneous

Mr. X demo reel
Vignette
New York Comic-Con panel

References

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  1. "Monster Hunter — trailer, release date in Ukraine". Film Planet (in українська). Retrieved 2020-11-18.

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