Paul W.S. Anderson has built his entire career on effects-heavy genre movies that don’t tend to find a lot of love from critics, but can always be relied on to do solid business at the box office. Over the last quarter of a century, the filmmaker has been responsible for Mortal Kombat, the first installment and final three sequels in the Resident Evil franchise, Alien vs. Predator and the Death Race remake among others.
None of those titles are what you would exactly call classics, but his filmography has collectively earned almost $1.9 billion globally, so there’s clearly an audience keen to see what he comes up with next. Anderson’s latest movie sees him on familiar turf, as he directs an effects-heavy video game adaptation that stars wife Milla Jovovich in the lead role.
Monster Hunter was originally set to hit theaters last month, but like everything else it was delayed as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. The first teaser has now arrived online, and while it doesn’t offer much in the way of footage or plot details, it does say that the movie is arriving in December even though the official date was announced as April 2021.
Whether the schedule is yet to be updated or Monster Hunter is planning on an earlier international rollout, it looks like the kind of mid-range blockbuster catered to appeal to a very specific demographic that want nothing more than big, loud, stupid entertainment. The title tells you all you need to know about it really, although the story is set to make some major deviations from the video game source material, but a full-length trailer surely isn’t too far away now that we’ve had our first glimpse.
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