Milla Jovovich Reveals The Badass Character She Plays in MONSTER HUNTER
Milla Jovovich is currently shooting a film based on the video game Monster Hunter with her husband, director Paul W.S. Anderson. The actress recently shared a first look at the badass character that she plays in the film.
The character’s name is Captain Natalie Artemis and Jovovich describes her as a Ranger and a Monster Hunter. Judging by the photo, it looks like she had a hell of a long day battling monsters!
The story for the film centers on the leader of a UN military team (Jovovich) who is transported to another realm populated by monsters. That where she teams up with a Hunter (Jaa) to close a portal to prevent monsters from attacking Earth.
Capcom debuted the Monster Hunter video game about 14 years ago on PlayStation 2 and has since evolved and has been made available on a variety of platforms. The games are action role-playing games and the players take the role of a Hunter, "slaying or trapping large monsters across various landscapes as part of quests given to them by the locals. As part of its core gameplay loop, players use loot gained from slaying monsters, gathering resources, and quest rewards to craft improved weapons, armor, and other items that allow them to face more powerful monsters."
When Anderson first revealed that he was developing the project years ago, he offered the following 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.
He went on to talk about how there aren't any central characters from the game to develop the story around and along with some of the imagery that he is hoping to bring to life.
"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. 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…You’re fighting these giant creatures, some as big as a city block. They live underneath the Earth and when they burst out, it’s like the best of Dune. You also have these flying dragons, giant spiders, the most wonderful creatures."
The film is being produced by Constantine Films and the film also stars Tony Jaa, Ron Perlman. and Diego Boneta.
I’m really curious to see how this movie turns out. It sounds like it will be a fun flick, though! What do you think about our first look at Milla Jovovich in the movie?