Fourth Resident Evil film confirmed? News
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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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kangarootoo
06/07/09 @ 09:11
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@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. |
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kinky_mong
06/07/09 @ 09:15
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Ah lovely, the phrase "Resident Evil 4" will be forever tainted. Thanks Paul!
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"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... |
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RESIDENT_nEVILe
06/07/09 @ 09:49
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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. |
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dominalien
06/07/09 @ 09:57
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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. |
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GiarcYekrub
06/07/09 @ 10:28
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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 |
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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 :)
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dominalien
06/07/09 @ 10:32
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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. |
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dominalien
06/07/09 @ 10:34
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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. |
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makeamazing
06/07/09 @ 12:01
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@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.... |
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SomaticSense
06/07/09 @ 12:50
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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.
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kangarootoo
06/07/09 @ 15:43
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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...
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Degeneration was pretty cool in it's own right. Nice to see a focus on tried and trusted Resi characters, it's a standalone story that won't win any Oscars but holds well to the Resi history and present, the ending works as a pretty decent leadin to RE5 too.
Overall not bad at all, but by no means spectacular! |
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PastyMuncher
06/07/09 @ 17:39
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"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 |
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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! |
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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). |
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