Fourth Resident Evil film confirmed?

By Tom Bramwell Published 6 July, 2009

Milla Jovovich reportedly says so.

Actress Milla Jovovich has apparently confirmed reports that she's working on another Resident Evil film.

Speaking to paparazzi in a video posted on YouTube, picked up by ShockTillYouDrop.com (thanks Kotaku Australia), Jovovich said, "We're going to start shooting at the end of the year."

Not that you can actually hear what she's responding to, but when asked which film she's talking about, she added, "Number four."

There have of course been three Resident Evil films - all fantastic, as everyone knows - and the same site had earlier reported that a Sony Pictures insider had said film four was called Resident Evil: Afterlife, and that it would be in cinemas next September.

Director Paul W. S. Anderson is also thought to be attached.

The last film in the series, Resident Evil: Extinction, saw heroine Alice (played by Jovovich) uncovering and part-destroying an underground facility run by the Umbrella Corporation in which a mad scientist was mass-producing Alice clones.

She seemed to be getting friendly with her other selves towards the end, so perhaps she will - as ShockTillYouDrop suggests - depart for Tokyo and exact her revenge at the head of an army of clones.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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  • Ninja_Tino #1 3 years ago

    Paul W. S. Anderson. A true visionary director!

  • curtlikesmeat #2 3 years ago

    To be fair Event Horizon is good. Oh well :(

  • DFawkes #3 3 years ago

    I'd prefer another CG film to be honest. Not that Resident Evil: Degeneration was brilliant, but it was nice and watchable, with plenty of little nods to the games. Plus the game of it still ranks among my favourite N-gage games.

  • bad09 #4 3 years ago

    God no, not more. Between the reboot and the movies, poor RE has been butchered!

  • Dunk_13 #5 3 years ago

    im excited now :)

  • Doctor_What #6 3 years ago

    ... I quite like the first one... Is that wrong?

  • mashk #7 3 years ago

    The games are reknowned for their crappy scripts and terrible acting. In that respect, the films have been very faithful to the detriment of themselves.



  • DFawkes #8 3 years ago

    "Stop! I'm a human!"

    Human yes, voice actor not so much.

  • kangarootoo #9 3 years ago

    @Doctor_What

    The first one was pretty good given the genre it sits in. Decent action scenes, good pacing, a story that roughly made sense and lots of running about.

    The second one was not so hot (that Nemesis suit was a bit comedic imo) I thought. I'm not sure about the 3rd one. I can't actually remember whether I thought it was ok or bad, which is probably not a good sign.

  • kinky_mong #10 3 years ago

    Ah lovely, the phrase "Resident Evil 4" will be forever tainted. Thanks Paul!

  • DB2k #11 3 years ago

    nice one. I like these movies.. even if 2 and 3 were a bit poor.

  • Mr_Brown #12 3 years ago

    "Fourth resident evil movie confirmed as shit as Jovovich comfirms involvement"

    Not sure what confuses me more, the fact they are sticking to shitte over the top action, focusing on jovovich character (which sucks) when the series has a wealth of characters and side stories they could have used. Or the fact that these films actually make money...

  • RESIDENT_nEVILe #13 3 years ago

    Christ, why don't they reboot the Resi film formula?

    I love a good B-movie, but the Resi films try too hard to be cool and mainstream - replacing story with big explosions and fight scenes. BOOOOOORRRING

    I've seen more engaging made- for-TV movies. The franchise deserves better.

  • dominalien #14 3 years ago

    2 and 3 were pretty bad, but the girl that is Jill more than makes up for it, imo.

    I'll still watch and immensely enjoy no. 4. Although it cannot physically or in any other sense be better than the game, even if it's the best movie ever made.

  • kendoji #15 3 years ago

    The first movie was great, with plenty of references to traditional zombie cinema. It was certainly much better than Romero's woeful Land of the Dead. The next two were silly, but not entirely unwatchable.

  • peterfll #16 3 years ago

    The first, enjoyable trash. The second, just trash. The third.... the third had the bird out of Heroes in it.

  • Mr_Brown #17 3 years ago

    Didn't know that CountFapula, does explain alot though. What a terrible actress, must have got lock jaw to get into the profession.

  • GiarcYekrub #18 3 years ago

    Can't be worse than RE5 or Gun Survivor.

    Personally my favourite Resident Evil:Appocalypse because you have Nemesis a good Tyrant type monster as the end bad guy where the original climaxed with a licker, Extintion was different but different isn't bad

  • Kremlik Verified Co-Founder, Crash To Desktop #19 3 years ago

    I think irronically the films saw the shift in the game's horror/puzzle to action based blunder before Capcom did :)

    To be fair RE's films are still better then a ton of games to film out there, addmitidly the first was the best before they just went all action film about it, but still RE, Silent Hill, FF:AC and MK1 (and Chun Li in a way) are still the top dogs out there in the GoF world, for pure cheese SF and Doom win that one :)
    Edited by 1 at 06/07/09 @ 11:33

  • dominalien #20 3 years ago

    Oh, it's 100% certain to be worse than RE5. IMO.

    I like RE5, you see. Playing it for a 3rd time on Pro to get all the trophies.

  • dominalien #21 3 years ago

    MK1 is, imo, the best game-based film ever.

    SH was ok, but too incoherent for its own good (just like the games...)

    RE films, apart from the 1st one, miss the style of RE completely.

    All imo.

  • GiarcYekrub #22 3 years ago

    I want another DOA film

  • makeamazing #23 3 years ago

    @Tom I wouldnt say they were all excellent movies... guess I watched something else then :D

    RE3 Movie was really quite poor, though the first one was pretty good, and 2 was not bad....

  • Gaol #24 3 years ago

    I liked the second and third films a lot more than the first.

    /shrug

  • SomaticSense #25 3 years ago

    When the serious rumours first started over a possible Resi film (around shortly after Resi 2 hit) I was so excited. The license really had the potential to be a quality action-horror series.

    Little did I know then, that it would be 99% focused on the action, massively unfaithful and disrespectful to the license, and merely be an ego-vehicle for a hack of director who has no respect whatsoever for the licenses of the films he makes, and his supermodel turned failed actress squeeze who is only still in the business because of these horrible films and the fact her bloke seems to be obsessed with stroking his own ego with them.

    Capcom are to blame. If they had any self-respect they'd pull all the licenses to their games and stop anyone ever making a movie of them ever again.
    Edited by 1 at 06/07/09 @ 13:52

  • Canyarion #26 3 years ago

    Please no.

    The only parts of RE3 I remember are some terrible scenes with dogs, trucks, crows, zombies and of course a desert.

    The first RE was great though, I probably saw it 5 times.

  • dog #27 3 years ago

    "Mr Brown, they focus on such a craptacular actress/ character because she's boffing the director and had his child. "

    i think that shes actually married to Luc Besson... he directed her in 5th Element and Joan of Arc... maybe she boffed him for those jobs... who knows....

  • beastmaster #28 3 years ago

    Could this make history as the best 4th movie in a franchise ever?

  • Bulbatron #29 3 years ago

    I actually think Even Horizon is an excellent film but when it comes to Resident Evil, I'd much rather see another CG film like Resident Evil Degeneration, than another film where everything goes all blurry with motion whenever a fight starts.

  • Lamb #30 3 years ago

    The first two movies were alright but the third was terrible especially the part where she gets suckered to saving a bunch of people who instead try to feed her to zombie dogs?????? :(

  • kangarootoo #31 3 years ago

    The best thing about the second film. By miles.

    [link url=http ://www.imdb.com/media/rm3309934848/ch0001093
    ]http://ww w.imdb.com/media/rm3309934848/c...[/link]

  • kangarootoo #32 3 years ago

    Was Degeneration any good btw? I kind of assume the dialogue and acting will be as good as that in the games, i.e. bloody terrible. Happy to find its not the case...

  • kangarootoo #33 3 years ago

    Fair enough. Onto my internet rental list it goes.

  • PastyMuncher #34 3 years ago

    "It's not like Milla Jovovich is even THAT hot. She really isn't... "

    .......Yes, but its not really the point.

    Sheryl Cole is probably hotter, lets give her the role! ;p

  • sega #35 3 years ago

    Argh the Resident Evil movie series is terrible - it has almost nothing to do with the game. The first film should have been set in the old mansion with Chris, Jill and Wesker investigating the Bravo team disappearance. The second film could then have covered 2 and 3, the third film Code Veronica and now we'd be onto an awesome Resident Evil 4 film with Las Plagas and everything.

    Don't know where they can go with this one - they already wiped out the entire population of the earth in the last one. Oh and why do we always have bright neon labs and clean rooms instead of the dank, dark and rusty labs of the games? Also the labs came at the end of the game - it's the first thing you see in the movie! Argh they're so rubbish!

  • Miths #36 3 years ago

    I'm certainly not going to complain. The first three may only have been mediocre action games at best (the second worse than 1 and 3), but I've been living on a steady diet of those for the last 20+ years since I watched my first American Ninja and assorted Chuck Norris movies :p.
    All I'm looking for in movies is usually just entertainment, and the first three RE movies didn't fail me in that regard - and Milla Jovovich just made them better. As far as female action heroes go she's one of my favourites (not that I can actually think of that many others off the top of my head, who are regularly cast in those types of roles).