A big screen adaptation of Capcom’s Monster Hunter will begin production in September this year, reports Variety.

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Backed by German film production and distribution company Constantin Film, the movie will feature Resident Evil and The Fifth Element star Milla Jovovich in an unspecified role. It will be helmed by Jovovich’s husband Paul W. S. Anderson (writer of all six movies in the Resident Evil film franchise and the director of four of them).The film, reportedly budgeted at around USD$60 million, is set to shoot in South Africa – just like 2016’s Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.Anderson first revealed his interest in tackling a Monster Hunter adaptation back in September 2012. Years later, in November 2016, Anderson explained the film will focus on an average American who is yanked into a parallel world filled with monsters. “Then eventually the parallel world ends up coming to our world. So you have the creatures from the Monster Hunter world invading our world,” said Anderson at the time.According to Anderson and regular producing partner Jeremy Bolt the film is intended to kickstart a franchise. It doesn’t seem out of the question considering the latest instalment of the Monster Hunter series, Monster Hunter: World, has this year become Capcom’s best-selling game ever.

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