Dolph Lundgren and Ian McElhinney have joined the cast of the CGI-animated film Mutant: Year Zero. Deadline reports.
The film is based on Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, Funcom’s 2018 XCOM-style tactical game, which in turn was based on a decades-old Swedish RPG. It’s 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 rebuilds itself via the Ark. The film follows a group of misfit, anthropomorphic mutants who embark on a mission to find an Ark engineer who has mysteriously disappeared. They believe he holds the key to a mystical place of salvation known as Eden. But the deeper they delve, the more they discover that things beyond the Ark are not as they seem, and they soon begin to question their very existence as mutants.
The first trailer for the film was released in 2020. Check it out below:
Hollywood action star Dolph Lundgren, best known for playing Soviet boxer Ivan Drago in Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky 4, recently starred in Aquaman and Unbreakable. 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 release in 2018. IGN’s review stated, “By changing the interaction between stealth and combat, Mutant Year Zero presents an interesting and intense new perspective on turn-based tactics that forces you to make the most of every move.”
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