Mutant Chronicles (film)
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| Directed by | Simon Hunter |
| Produced by |
Edward R. Pressman Tim Dennison Pras Michel Stephen Belafonte Peter La Terriere |
| Written by | Philip Eisner |
| Starring |
Thomas Jane Ron Perlman John Malkovich |
| Music by | Richard Wells |
| Cinematography | Geoff Boyle |
| Edited by | Sean Barton Alison Lewis |
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Production
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Isle of Man Film
Grosvenor Park |
| Distributed by | Magnet Releasing |
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Release date
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Running time
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111 minutes (International) 101 minutes (United States) |
| Country | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | N/A |
| Box office | $2,131,057 |
Mutant Chronicles is a 2008 British-American independent science fiction horror 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 in 2008. The film premiered on VOD on March 27, 2009, and had a theatrical release for selected cities on April 24, 2009. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on August 4, 2009.
The story is set in the year 2707. 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 mutated humans that were accidentally unleashed.
The plot revolves around a "machine" which came from space 10,000 years ago. The "machine" mutates people into barely intelligent killing drones, known as "mutants", that drag new victims to the machine for conversion. Sealed away thousands of years ago by human tribes, the machine is accidentally uncovered during a large battle in Eastern Europe between two of the four corporations that now rule the world. Within six weeks the world is almost completely conquered by the mutant gangs. Some of the population has been evacuated to Mars, but millions remain on the doomed Earth. A group of soldiers are assembled to take another ancient device to the heart of the machine in an attempt to destroy it in a suicide mission. In return, their loved ones receive coveted tickets to Mars.
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