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Mutant Chronicles
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySimon Hunter
Written byPhilip Eisner
Produced byEdward R. Pressman
Tim Dennison
Pras Michel
Stephen Belafonte
Peter La Terriere
StarringThomas Jane
Ron Perlman
Devon Aoki
Sean Pertwee
Benno Fürmann
John Malkovich
Anna Walton
Tom Wu
Steve Toussaint
Luis Echegaray
Pras Michel
CinematographyGeoff Boyle
Edited bySean Barton
Alison Lewis
Music byRichard Wells
Production
companies
Isle of Man Film
Grosvenor Park
Distributed byMagnet Releasing
Release dates
United Kingdom:
October 10, 2008
United States:
August 4, 2009
Running time
111 min.
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Box office$1,627,700
(worldwide)

Mutant Chronicles is a 2009 independent science fiction action film, loosely based on the role-playing game of the same name. The film was directed by Simon Hunter, and stars Thomas Jane and Ron Perlman. The film was released throughout Europe[1] in an unfinished form. The film premiered on VOD on March 27, 2009, and had a theatrical release for selected cities on April 24, 2009.[2] The film was released on DVD on August 4, 2009.

Plot

The story is set in the year 2707.[3] The film's version of the world is loosely based on that of the Mutant Chronicles role-playing game, where many technologies are steam powered and mankind has exhausted Earth’s natural resources. The protagonists must battle against mutant creatures accidentally unleashed upon the planet.[4][5]

Borrowing heavily from WWI and steampunk action-horror movies, the plot revolves around a sealed away "machine" which came from space. The "machine" converts people into mutants that do little other than kill and drag new victims to the machine for conversion. Locked away 10,000 years ago, the machine was accidentally uncovered in a battle in Europe. Within six weeks the world is nearly completely conquered by the roaming mutant gangs and most people are evacuated off of the world. A group of soldiers are then assembled to take an ancient device, presumed to be a bomb, to the heart of the machine in an attempt to destroy it. Most of the group is killed or converted into mutants while the device is activated, which turns out to be an ignition device to send the machine back into space, leaving only one member of the group alive but half mutated. As the film closes, the "machine" appears to be enroute to Mars, where many of the evacuees fled.

Cast

Critical reception

Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 17% rotten rating based on 29 reviews.[6]

References

  1. ^ "The Mutant Chronicles — Screenrush.co.uk". Screenrush. Retrieved July 19, 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ "THE MUTANT CHRONICLES GET MAGNETIZED". Chud. June 1, 2009. Retrieved July 19, 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ "Images from Mutant Chronicles".
  4. ^ "Fanboy Radio #405 - Thomas Jane Returns LIVE". Fanboyradiolibsyn. July 22, 2007. Retrieved July 19, 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. ^ "Getting Raw with Thomas Jane". Mania. August 8, 2007. Retrieved July 19, 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  6. ^ "Mutant Chronicles". Rotten Tomatoes. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
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