First Monster Hunter Trailer Pits Milla Jovovich Against Massive Beasts

It’s been a little while since we’ve watched Paul W.S. Anderson hack apart a beloved videogame franchise, hasn’t it? The director of oh-so-many Resident Evil films (and many others) has made a career out of making very loosely adapted videogame properties ever since the massive camp success of the first Mortal Kombat in the 1990s, and most of those films have starred his wife, actress Milla Jovovich. The new Monster Hunter, which received its first full trailer today, is no exception.
A co-production of the U.S., Canada, Germany, China and Japan, Monster Hunter has some very obvious international flair, and we can’t help but assume this has been tailored from the ground up to do big business in the Chinese market in particular. It’s a fantasy action thriller, starring Jovovich as the leader of “an elite military force” that is thrust through a mysterious portal into a world populated by giant monsters. There, the team meets a hunter, played by Thai martial arts icon Tony Jaa, who helps them learn to fight monsters as they seek a way back to our own world.