Dolph Lundgren and Ian McElhinney have joined the cast of CGI animated movie Mutant: Year Zero., Deadline reports.
The film is based on Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, the 2018 XCOM-style tactics game from Funcom, which itself was based on the decades-old Swedish tabletop RPG. It’s being rendered using Unreal Engine 5, and directed by Hasraf ‘HaZ’ Dulull, the indie filmmaker behind The Beyond and 2036: Origin Unknown.
Mutant: Year Zero is set in a post-apocalyptic future where civilization is rebuilding itself via The Ark. The movie follows a group of mis-fits, anthropomorphic mutants on a mission to locate the engineer of the Ark who has mysteriously gone missing. They believe he holds the key to a mystical place of salvation known as Eden. But the deeper they venture, the more they discover that things are not what they seem outside the Ark, and soon they begin to question their existence as mutants.”
In 2020, the first sizzle reel for the film was released. Check it out below:
Hollywood action star Dolph Lundgren, best known for playing Soviet boxer Ivan Drago in Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky 4, has recently starred in Aquaman and Expendables movies. Ian McElhinney, who played Ser Barristan Selmy in Game of Thrones and General Jan Dodonna in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, most recently starred in George Clooney’s The Boys in the Boat.
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden was well-received by critics upon its 2018 release. IGN’s review said: “In changing the interplay between stealth and combat, Mutant Year Zero spins an interesting and intense new perspective on turn-based tactics that pushes you to get the most out of every move you make.”
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