Resident Evil Filmmakers Set Sights on Monster Hunter
Steve Barton
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With the Resident Evil film franchise finally coming to an end, Deadline is reporting that Paul W.S Anderson and his Impact Pictures producing partner Jeremy Bolt aren’t done with Capcom yet as they’ve set their sights on another of the company’s gaming franchises.
Manager Ken Kamins has begun taking meetings with the filmmakers on Monster Hunter, a wildly popular video game IP from Capcom, the Japanese video game maker that developed and distributes Resident Evil. Anderson has written the first film’s script, and they come armed with still and VFX visual renderings of the creatures and a detailed game plan that will include a partnership with Dennis Berardi. He’s the co-founder and president of Toronto-based VFX house Mr. X that helped enable Anderson and Bolt to bring in the Resident Evil series for reasonable net budget in the $50-plus million range for each of the final 3D pictures. Monster Hunter will cost a similar amount.
The logline: 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.
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