Monster Hunter World: Movie adaptation could break video game curse

Movie adaptions of popular video game franchises tend to flop when it comes to the box office. Monster Hunter World, however, is a game that can finally break the video game movie curse thanks to a storyline that can strictly focus on epic monsters, battles, and not so much of a detailed storyline.

[KillMePrettyPlease]

No, it won't, the film director is shit.

[senorfartcushion]

It's a studio film, which means that the director is the 4th or 5th most important person in charge.

[naruga]

Monster Hunter the movie will be a total disaster guaranteed ......never ever ever ever ever a movie helped a game or never ever created a good movie based on game ...end of story ...if now Capcom higher up vultures want even more money from the indeed very well made MHWorld is a different story

[Nitrowolf2]

You say that yet it starring his wife, You think that was solely a studio decision and not just paul Given her her next career role after Resident Evil ?

Paul Anderson has been confirmed for a long time and it's been highly speculated until recently confirmed that he would get his wife a part in the film to.
Hes gonna have a ton of control over the film
Not only that we already have story details that are just horrible

"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."

Thats always been my favprite plot point from monster hunter, Which game is that from again?

[-Foxtrot]

Paul W.S Anderson

Milla Jovovich

Resident Evil fiasco

Hollywood never EVER stick to the source material

Director usually dosen't either

Same goes for the writer

It's going to be shit...lets be honest.

[Tankbusta40]

The first Resident evil movie was good and then they just went full retard.

Let's also not forget that W. S. also did Mortal Kombat so he is capable of good adaption if he stays somewhat close to the source material

[Cmv38]

It was less than good, but wasn't bad by any means

[Asuka]

Imo the only movie(s) i found somewhat passable by Paul has been Death Race (2008?) and the first Resident Evil as you mentioned. Though MK i can enjoy for shits and giggles because i cannot take it seriously... and you really shouldn't take it seriously because its MK for crying out loud haha. So yeah to that extent i agree with you. we will see but i am tired of every videogame adaption trying to "break the curse." Just focus on making a good movie first.

[Tankbusta40]

I think some people take movies too seriously... When I said the first Resident Evil movie was good I meant I liked it despite not staying faithful to the video games...

Mortal Kombat is probably the best video game adaptation ever made. All the characters are faithful to their source material and it was about a tournament for deciding the fate of earth realm(like the first game). That's all you need to be a good video game movie...you don't need it to be Oscar winning material

[Kosic]

The first RE movie was crap. Had nothing to do with the game apart from a few small details. Zombies, I believe stars was in it and guns... Rest I honestly don't remember. Just recall it being about some shitty A.I robot locking down a building.

[Asuka]

100% This. Honestly could have stopped at Paul W.S. Anderson and come to the same conclusion tbh...

[senorfartcushion]

So....a game's source material, then?

That makes no sense. Games are paced at 3, 6, 15, 100, 200 hours most times - no form of adaptation.

[-Foxtrot]

Course you can get the source material

Most games which offer so many hours of gameplay do so because they add things into the plot which stretch it out.

Remove these things along with most of the gameplay (scenes which could easily be transitioned to the next on screen) and you’ll have the core story to adapt

It’s seriously not that hard

[senorfartcushion]

-foxtrot

As a screenwriter (award winning) director, producer, theorist and all-around sexy mofo, I say it very much is hard to adapt games.

Don't get me wrong, I'll adapt a game so well that your head will spin but based on the evidence, you wouldn't bother getting off your buns in order to go and see it because it's not a Marvel film. :D

And an adaptation from me surely wouldn't star any former wrestlers with incredible creative greed like The Rock - so there's plan B out the window.

[zerocarnage]

While I agree with you I also don't.

The resident evil films were great action and special effect films you can't deny that. Fans however of the resident evil series wanted as close to possibly video game like story for the film as they could that instead of just seeing the films as new entry's they decided to turn there backs on the series.

Don't get me wrong if had my way I would of done it rite also and got that story done rite and no had mila or the Alice character anywhere near resi evil but it happened, hopefully the reboot will be what it a should of been in first place.

[senorfartcushion]

Because nerds - especially in this day and age - don't want anything new and original. There's even a correlation between the originality of contemporary films and bombing commercially and/or critically.

We live in a bad time for cinema. Ok, good, because we can watch a kids film with Iron Man in once every fee years, but then there's everything else which is:

Star War

And

Things trying to copy the Iron Man film.

[DillyDilly]

Tomb Raider & Rampage didnt lol

[Segata]

Are you stupid!? It's from the same director as those awful Resident Evil films. Anyone ready for 16 years of sequels of Mila doing bollywood level of action sequences and she had 50 clones in a desert in space underground or something.

[senorfartcushion]

It's a studio film, Anderson is ONLY the director.

[Nitrowolf2]

In which the film also stars his wife, You really think that he isnt gonna have any kind of major control over the film?

[Segata]

The only decent live-action game films I have seen are Silent Hill and Mortal Kombat. No one will say they are great but they made an effort to be close to the source.

[Nitrowolf2]

I think the 1st moral combat is great for its time and even today going back to it I thought they did a pretty With costumes and design.

The 2nd one however is another story

[Daisysnow]

.. Im sure it will be bad

[MrMagz]

People say this with literally every video game movie, and none of them have been any good.

[Sayai jin]

Nope.

[CrimsonWing69]

Not if the director is Paul W.S. Anderson.

[Rangerman1208]

Was Ready Player One not good enough?

I mean, yeah not EVERY video game were there but...just close enough.

[Nerdmaster]

Ready Player One was about video games, but wasn't based on a video game. Completely different things, dude.

Wreck it Ralph was also fantastic, but it's the same thing, it was about video games, also had loads of cameos, but it wasn't based on a video game.

[theshredded]

Milla is in it so I'll be watching. Here's hoping the CG and fighting is good. It needs to be cheesy and self aware of it. This can be bigger than RE as video game movies go, I really hope they nail it.

[quent]

MK

[Razmiran]

Isnt the story about the monsters coming into the real world?

[babadivad]

Please don't.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

I'll probably get shot for this, but Super Mario Bros was one of the best cringe-comedy adaptations of a video game EVER. It's sad that the actors regret it.XD

[MrSec84]

Sad Bob Hodkins and Dennis Hopper are dead.
Mario Bros was so bad it was good, especially if you don't associate it with the SMB franchise.

I think the only way an SMB movie would work is as an animated movie (be it drawn or CG in modern times, maybe good stop motion stuff), the live action one is ridiculous and weird.
That film shouldn't have been called Super Mario Bros, it should have been it's own thing, but then I suppose you probably wouldn't have had Bob and Dennis Hopper attached to it.

I can see a Monster Hunter working, but it shouldn't be taken as a serious film, just mindless action and the odd funny quips here and there.
I'll watch it just to see how it is.
I actually like the RE films (don't shoot me), especially the first one, but I don't see it as an RE movie, since it doesn't really focus on the main characters, it's just a Zombie Action Flick, with those characters as side players.

If holiday ever takes another stab at RE the core characters of the games should be the main players and directors shouldn't play with the story, just adapt the games for an entertaining, tense horror/thriller.

[DafunkyRebel]

Get the director for Reign of Fire to do it

[BlackDoomAx]

It definitly won't. It's supposed to be set in a 'mystical' world: Nothing is mystic in MH, it's the ecosystem. And a modern mystical world on top of that: https://youtu.be/duK8okgQNI...

[zerocarnage]

I wouldn't say it's a curse. I mean I myself have enjoyed alot of video game turned films the latest being tomb raider.

And yeah although they are not done exactly to the games story's and are changed they are not all bad, some worth a watch once only and others you can watch every few months or so when there is nothing to watch.

I wouldn't put it just on monster Hunter to make a turn around from what you call a curse, there are being more and more done and so more and more decent directors will sign up for video game films as the more popular they become and overtime they will..

I seen the trailer to the witcher and fallout the other day and they look good from a trailer point of view..

The thing is script writers have pretty much done everything now to the point every film you feel like you have seen it. When video games enter the conversation video games are an untapped source of already created story and ideas, fresh too. With all the money being dumped into films and video games now and with cgi at its best as well as special effects, alot of video games can now receive a very good looking adaption into film, the only downside is fans want it to be exactly like the video game and I don't necessarily agree with that. Also video games being worked into film worked as a game first so ideas will come easier for a director, it's just a case of watch a video games gameplay or full story now which usually all gets put on YouTubeor documented somewhere on social media, alot of that work is done.

[Kosic]

They said the same thing with Lol raider and Warcraft movie...

[ShadowWolf712]

It's directed by Paul Anderson and starring Milla Jovovich, who will no doubt once again be playing an overpowered OC Paul whips up.

It'll be trash.