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Paul WS Anderson talks Monster Hunter Movie
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ok so:
what do you guys want?
what is a Monster Hunter movie that aint this? what's this deep suddenly lore-worthy Monster Hunter film that isnt just ridiculous action in a game where you slay monsters and eat cartoon-sized meat?
fuck it I dont see how it's a bad fit. I mean dont make a movie of it, but if you're gonna you might as well get Paul WS
shit's dumb
what do you guys want?
what is a Monster Hunter movie that aint this? what's this deep suddenly lore-worthy Monster Hunter film that isnt just ridiculous action in a game where you slay monsters and eat cartoon-sized meat?
fuck it I dont see how it's a bad fit. I mean dont make a movie of it, but if you're gonna you might as well get Paul WS
shit's dumb
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Paul Anderson has made some good films, not many would argue that. There's even movies that should of been terrible which ended up surprisingly good under him (such as Event Horizon), but the thing is he's also been responsible for some real crap, and when it comes to video game movies and him, everyone is obviously going to think of the live-action Resident Evil films, the sixth and final one is about to come out and that whole film franchise stands as some sort of strange wonder in this world where it's not really good, it's critically panned, most even acknowledge the films aren't very good, but they continue to do well in the box office, while most video game films have trouble taking off the ground to even be made the Resident Evil films just keep on coming (even outside of the live-action films, you also have the two CG films and the third coming out this Spring), and they're kind of enjoyable even if most know they're not good if you just accept them for what they are (I'm excluding Damnation, the second CG film from this, but all the Anderson films for certain).
I am morbidly curious what he'd do if he gets the rights for a Monster Hunter film. At the very least he's shown he can successfully make a video game movie without too much production hell, do the marketing right and make it work well in the box office.
These are the ramblings of a mad man.
aaaaand i lied.
Okay so it's like this. So the monsters come out from the Yellowstone area (tropical/subtropical/desert monsters), the K2 area (artic/flying monsters) and the Marianas Trench area (aquatic monsters). STUFF happens, and come to find out, regular weapons don't work because they just heal too fast or evade tracking weapons with their organic, erratic movement. And you COULD use nuclear weapons, but there are too many of them and you can only use so many nukes before nuclear winter sets in and now humans are extinct and the monsters rule the world. Whoops.
BUT guess what? Through an evolutionary biological quirk, monsters can hurt and kill each other because their biology prevents other monsters from healing, so now you gotta find a way to make several big monsters fight each other so's they can tear each other apart so you can get the parts to make monster-killing weapons out of them (this is the CGI porn everybody wants nowadays so be thankful!). Then you get the monster parts, make the monster weapons and start turning the tide.
More stuff happens, fight the greatest giant monster, win, victory, yay. But not yay because monsters in the world are now a fact of life and they aren't just going to go away because you took out the biggest of them. Credtis roll, people get used to the new way of things. And then the post credtis sting will show a hidden alcove found by somebody, and in that alcove are a bunch of kitten-like creatures that were just born somehow. They'll of course be in Monster Hunter 2.
This could totally work!
This could also totally shit the balls like Warcraft, but come ON... that was destined to shit the bed.
poodaddy
Gold Member
That didn't serve to make them tolerable movies.
Wolf Akela
Member
Not a fan of the vision with regards to parallel world convergence.
Actually I can't see Monster Hunter working at all. The IP is essentially just a bowl of monsters to pull from. There's no grand plot, there are no characters to follow, no mystery to unfathom, no kind of war to fight, no central monster.
Whatever explanation for the existence of monsters or parallel worlds can't be anything but cheesy cringe.
Actually I can't see Monster Hunter working at all. The IP is essentially just a bowl of monsters to pull from. There's no grand plot, there are no characters to follow, no mystery to unfathom, no kind of war to fight, no central monster.
Whatever explanation for the existence of monsters or parallel worlds can't be anything but cheesy cringe.
Soltype
Member
I guess so, and it's going to have minotaurs in it?
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Honestly, when you word it like that this does seem right up Anderson's alley. He's more of a spectacle scene by scene director than one which has any long-term or serious story concerns.
holy shit, you're right!
Lightning_Roller
Banned
....
So a monster hunter movie, without the monsters that make monster hunter....monster hunter.
Fucking hell, that sounds even worse than the world war z movie that had nothing to do with the book. Fuck that movie.
So a monster hunter movie, without the monsters that make monster hunter....monster hunter.
Fucking hell, that sounds even worse than the world war z movie that had nothing to do with the book. Fuck that movie.
The notion screams "budget concerns".
As in, "we can't afford to do a bunch of world-building for two whole hours, so we'll have Nargacuga bouncing around downtown Vancouver for part of the film."
StrangeRoboMemory
Member
This sounds stunningly awful.
You could replace the words "Monster Hunter" with anything else and it would be the same pitch. As mentioned previously, this is literally the plot of the Super Mario Bros. movie. Why not actually attempt to be creative and come up with something that could only work with the world of Monster Hunter?
So lazy.
edit: Honestly, this reads like the kind of generic Hollywood pitch you'd get from someone who has only engaged with the source material at a surface level. I'd be surprised if this guy has ever played any of the games.
QuantumBro
Banned
Nah the monsters will be there, they'll just take an hour to show up and be in NYC for some reason. Member Matrix?
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
If you absolutely must make a monhun movie you can easily make it the story about a kid who idolizes the hunters that they are surrounded by, the kid grows up to become a mediocre hunter but against all odds rises to fame by saving their village from a rathalos attack. Then they get pulled into some larger than life plot and end up fighting off the elder dragon at the end.
The movie can have themes about working with nature and not subjugating it.
MonHun has more in common with feel good animated movies than big budget action flicks honestly.
sure
I can totally see it working as an animated feature. fuckin dreamworks CG thing even
but live action no way we'd ever get anything other than this
I mean, you'd have to make up a story completely from whole cloth. The story in the games is barely even a backdrop to funnel you into the action. The whole entirety of the monster hunter storyline is some minor flavor text and meme jokes. There's nothing compelling to bring to the big screen aside from the action, and let's be honest most CGI fights are fucking boring. It would basically be that scene from Lord of the Rings where Legolas changes into his weird, noodly alien CGI body and surfs down the trunk of an elephant, stretched to 90 minutes with a sprinkle of some scenes about a prophecized hunter who would save the village and a love interest for the main character.
And even that would be less schlocky than what Mr. Wes Anderson would want to do.
Masterspeed
Member
That would imply his movies would be at least HALF good.
Herb Alpert
Banned
OMG Paul anderson directs the movie?
Well, the odds that it won't be shitty as hell are quite infinitesimal.
Well, the odds that it won't be shitty as hell are quite infinitesimal.
Infernostew
Member
He doesn't want to completely murder his flawless filmography.
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
Do not want
Inferno313
Banned
I like how you make it sound like this is worse, haha.
Is he really doing the parallel world and sending an American there? Sweet baby jesus. Why can't we just get generic fantasy with no self inserts? Surely this isn't the best they could come up with to make giant dragons and other monsters interesting? Quick phone up marky mark he's got some giant baboons to kill with an M4.
The Bookerman
Member
So we can expect Mila Jovovich in the lead role?
Oh my god. If it was a fully self aware cross over where the protagonist is a Monster Hunter video game series fan just kill me now.
Paul Wes Anderson basically describes why I love Eastern influenced RPG (or hunter / RPG) type of games. I love how creative they are with stuff like that. Aion from NCSoft does a similar thing and just... yeah. It's so much more interesting than anything that comes from the west, to me (or at least the majority of games that come to the west... not all are obviously like this).
Seemed to me that there was a connection to the Resident Evil movies and the Monster Hunter project. I guess maybe the Resident Evil films made them money? I don't know, I don't really follow this kinda thing...
We ignored the signs...
I felt good reading this at first because he started talking about the richness of the world and the variety of monsters........and then he completely shits on everything he just praised by replacing it with a random American schlub and creating a bunch of nonsense about parallel worlds and just taking various monsters from other mythology? At that point you're just taking the Monster Hunter name and putting it on literally an entirely different story, and it's not like "Monster Hunter" as a name in America is a brand that's going to draw people to the theaters on its own. So the strategy behind this sounds like it just fails on literally every level.
You want to make an interesting Monster Hunter movie? They'd do a much better job by literally just taking the plot of Monster Hunter 4 and condensing it into feature film form. A fledgling hunter (or two hunters, or a hunter and his palico companion) meets the leader of a traveling caravan, searching the world for information on a mysterious Article. Introduce people to the guild and some of the world, along the journey they get attacked by Gore Magala, the hunter eventually manages to fend it off, but not before the frenzy virus starts to affect other monsters in the area. The caravan eventually constructs their own airship, finds Cathar, learns about the origins of Frenzy and finds out that the weakened Gore Magala has since matured into a Shagaru. With support from the other caravan members and the people of Cathar, the hunting team faces down the Shagaru and stops misfortune from ruining Cathar and the rest of the ecosystem.
The travels of the caravan can lead to a bunch of different locales and setpieces if desired, you'd get a central cast of characters to work with and plenty of opportunity for some monster-fighting action. And it wouldn't involve parallel world bullshit.
You want to make an interesting Monster Hunter movie? They'd do a much better job by literally just taking the plot of Monster Hunter 4 and condensing it into feature film form. A fledgling hunter (or two hunters, or a hunter and his palico companion) meets the leader of a traveling caravan, searching the world for information on a mysterious Article. Introduce people to the guild and some of the world, along the journey they get attacked by Gore Magala, the hunter eventually manages to fend it off, but not before the frenzy virus starts to affect other monsters in the area. The caravan eventually constructs their own airship, finds Cathar, learns about the origins of Frenzy and finds out that the weakened Gore Magala has since matured into a Shagaru. With support from the other caravan members and the people of Cathar, the hunting team faces down the Shagaru and stops misfortune from ruining Cathar and the rest of the ecosystem.
The travels of the caravan can lead to a bunch of different locales and setpieces if desired, you'd get a central cast of characters to work with and plenty of opportunity for some monster-fighting action. And it wouldn't involve parallel world bullshit.
Mr. Pointy
Member
MH has a lore of sorts with the Ancient Civilisation, but it's pretty much a generic fantasy world other than that.
Paul Thomas Wes Anderson's idea sounds like a dumb version of D-War/Pacific Rim.
Paul Thomas Wes Anderson's idea sounds like a dumb version of D-War/Pacific Rim.
... It's made by Anderson? As if his treatment of Resident Evil wasn't bad enough.
I'd love to see a Monster Hunter movie that's all about the battle man versus monster. Almost no story beyond "monster is a threat to a small village", all dialogue is pre-historic gibberish in an unknown language and it just shows how a brave soul travels through a dangerous world to finally face off the battle of their life. It would become a complete financial bomb, but a bomb with an artistic vision.
I'd love to see a Monster Hunter movie that's all about the battle man versus monster. Almost no story beyond "monster is a threat to a small village", all dialogue is pre-historic gibberish in an unknown language and it just shows how a brave soul travels through a dangerous world to finally face off the battle of their life. It would become a complete financial bomb, but a bomb with an artistic vision.
What did he mean by this?
Member
What in the world
SolicitorPirate
Member
You know what? Fuck it. I'll watch Milla Jovovich fuck up a Rathalos.
She'd just better do an over the top pose after downing an entire steak in 5 seconds
She'd just better do an over the top pose after downing an entire steak in 5 seconds