Monster Hunter Director: “Our Monsters Are Better Than ‘Jurassic World’s”

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UPDATED July 11, 2020: Sony Pictures has delayed its upcoming Monster Hunter movie to next year. The film was originally scheduled to be released September 4, 2020, but is now delayed to April 23, 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In Empire Magazine’s Big Screen Preview issue, Monster Hunter director Paul W.S. Anderson took some shots in the direction of the Jurassic franchise.

“All our monsters are 50-60 feet tall. They’re really amazing. We're building them in even more detail than the dinosaurs of Jurassic World,” Anderson said. “And they look even better, because we shot on real locations in South Africa and Namibia, which gives the animators something to really match into: real wind, real dust, real sun-flare. The monsters are the only CG thing in there.”

Monster Hunter, adapted from the video game, stars Milla JovovichTony JaaTip “T.I.” Harris, Meagan GoodDiego Boneta, Josh Helman, and Ron Perlman.

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Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

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