Sony Pictures has delayed its upcoming Monster Hunter movie to next year.
Monster Hunter, a movie based on the hit game from Capcom, was originally set to release in theaters in just a few months on September 4, but a change today in Sony Pictures’ domestic calendar indicates that the movie has been pushed back to April 23, 2021. As for a reason why the movie has been delayed, Sony Pictures has yet to say, but it’s likely due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the reason behind a number of delays in the film and TV industry this year.
Paul W.S. Anderson is the director for Monster Hunter and it’s not his first go at a movie based on a Capcom game. He’s the director of the many Resident Evil movies spawned off from those games as well. Anderson isn’t the only Resident Evil alum whose involved with this movie either, as the star of the Resident Evil movies, Milla Jovovich, is set to star in Monster Hunter.
Jovovich plays Natalie Artimis, the leader of a group of soldiers who gets transported from their world into that of the Monster Hunter video games. Jovovich’s Artimis teams up with The Hunter to, well, hunt monsters. The Hunter is played by Tony Jaa and his boss is someone known as the Admiral, a character played by Ron Perlman. Perlman’s Admiral character has not yet been reveled beyond his name.
While this story will be a new one for fans of the game series, Anderson has previously said that weapons, armor, and monsters from the game will be in the movie.