Rapper Clifford “T.I.” Harris, Ron Perlman and Milla Jovovich have signed on to star in Paul W.S. Anderson’s film adaptation of Capcom’s Monster Hunter video games. The games premise are about methodically tracking down big, dinosaur-like beasts and using their bits to build increasingly powerful weapons and armor, but the movie will most likely streamline that by cutting out the weird intricacies of the games (it is a movie, after all). Anderson is writing the adaptation, and his Resident Evil series star Milla Jovovich will be starring here as a character named Artemis. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Perlman will be playing Admiral, the leader of Monster Hunter’s team of monster hunters, and he’ll be joined by T.I. Harris (the rapper-turned-Ant-Man supporting player) who will be a sniper named Link.
The project, in the $60 million range, is set to begin shooting next month in South Africa.
Anderson is producing with longtime cohorts Jeremy Bolt and Robert Kulzer. Screen Gems will release the film in the U.S., with the studio’s Sony Pictures Releasing International handling distribution in select international territories
Harris, who reprised his Ant-Man role for this summer’s hit sequel, Ant-Man and The Wasp, has also just wrapped filming with Eddie Murphy in Dolemite Is My Name!, the Netflix’s biopic of Rudy Ray Moore, the late envelope-pushing comedian and film producer.
Perlman is the veteran cult actor who starred on FX’s Sons of Anarchy and toplined the Amazon series Hand of God. He is currently on the Sony Crackle series titled Startup and he most recently produced and starred in an independent movie Asher opposite Famke Janssen and Richard Dreyfuss. The movie was picked up by Momentum Pictures.
Harris is repped by APA, Defient Management, Category 5 Entertainment and Sloane Offer. Perlman is repped by Gersh and Link Entertainment.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter