Third Resi film details

By Tom Bramwell Published 4 July, 2006

Including half-buried Vegas.

The third Resident Evil film, Extinction, pits the last dregs of humanity against a dying world overrun by zombies, according to scriptwriter Paul W.S. Anderson.

Speaking at the Hollywood and Games Summit last week, Anderson said that his map of the film trilogy had always been set to conclude as a kind of "post script to the world of the videogame".

The film is set several years in the future, Anderson says, and "Umbrella Corporation has failed to control the outbreaks of the T-Virus and the world has been literally wiped out". Oops.

"There's very little humanity left and a handful of human survivors are travelling around the remnants of the world in these heavily armoured convoys," he says.

"And what they do is they go to the least populated parts of the world, because they figure that's where the least undead will be, and they travel in these heavily armoured trucks and customized rolling fortresses - it's very Road Warrior - at high speed so that the undead don't get anywhere near them."

Presumably that doesn't entirely work out for them though or it wouldn't be much of a film for the likes of Alice, Jill Valentine and Claire Redfield (a newcomer for the silver-screen versions) - but Anderson's not offering too much explanation on that front. Instead he's talking about the sets.

The film takes place "primarily in the deserts of Nevada and around Las Vegas" - and it's all a bit unkempt because "the desert has come back in and half-buried Vegas".

Cue lots of casinos half-buried in sand. "We built... parts of Paris [the casino]. So we built a chunk of the Eiffel Tower, but half-buried in sand. It's really spectacular," he explained last week.

Although Anderson's intimately involved in the project, it's actually Russell Mulcahy who'll be helming the thing, with Milla Jovovich still playing the lead role of Alice, Ali Larter joining as Redfield and Sienne Guillory reprising her turn as Jill Valentine, who popped up in Resident Evil: Apocalypse.

Chris Redfield is also rumoured to make an appearance, and for some reason Ashanti appears to be on the cast-list - which you can explore in more detail at IMDB.

Resident Evil: Extinction is due out next year.

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About Tom Bramwell

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  • AcidSnake #1 6 years ago

    Heavily armored convoys?
    Why does the Dead Reckoning from the 'Land of the dead' movie suddenly come to mind?

  • drumbaby #2 6 years ago

    Indeed.

  • rinoaMW #3 6 years ago

    i'm hoping that it does what "land of the dead" promised, but failed to deliver on... Sounds like this will be the final RE film though, doesn't it?
    Edited by 1 at 04/07/06 @ 09:51

  • sport #4 6 years ago

    agreed. Why must every zombie movie series/trilogy end like this? Just give us another mall with undead battering at the doors - that'll do me...

  • Aysir #5 6 years ago

    Im so glad they never decided to put Leon in one of these. Saves him the embarresment Jill and Claire are getting.

  • Darkedge #6 6 years ago

    hopefully this will be better than the piss poor second one. Nemesis we rubbish

  • AcidSnake #7 6 years ago

    I kind of liked the 'land of the dead' movie...
    Let's hope they keep Wesker out of the thing as well...

  • neuroniky #8 6 years ago

    I TOLD YOU! I TOLD YOU!
    Res Evil 1: 1 hot girl, zombies
    Res Evil 2: 2 hot girls, zombies^2
    Res Evil 3: 3 hot girls, zombies^3

    What's not to like?

    However, I liked Land of the Dead even if it was a little bit lacking in the scare department. So, I guess I will like this too. And Mad Max like convoys are much better than cheap CG creatures like Nemesis, for sure.

    Edit: Nemesis, not Apocalypse. :D
    Edited by 1 at 04/07/06 @ 10:05

  • nickthegun #9 6 years ago

    The Resi movies are those kind of movies that my head knows are crap, but my heart embraces like a warm, old blanket.

    I hope this one is just as crap, with just as little story and just as little characterisation. My subconcious seems to like non-stop, generally slow motion action punctuated briefly by arse clenchingly bad dialogue.

    Hopefully the finale will be some kind of siege involving the different tyrant models. Plenty of scope for stupid action set pieces there.

  • CyberClaw #10 6 years ago

    Personally I love this post apocalypstic stories (ala Land of the Dead), where survivers scout terrain in armored convoys and gun-ho kids drive wrecklessly in motorcycles with a shotgun betwen the crouch, and a machinegun on one hand...

    I'm just sadened we didn't get to see more of looting in Land of the Dead (like in the first scene of the movie where they are looting a town)...

  • ilmaestro #11 6 years ago

    I just hope there are more scenes like the recreation of the Code: Veronica opening in Apocalypse for me to mark out to.

  • AcidSnake #12 6 years ago

    Ow hell...
    Let's hope then that it won't be another 'throw-every-character-ever-to-appear-in-the-games-into-the- movie-as-well'

    I'm looking at you 'Street fighter the movie'!

  • rinoaMW #13 6 years ago

    Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Land of the Dead, but I feel that “Day” encapsulated that feeling of a world overrun (even with it’s very limited budget).

    If you read the preliminary Romero notes on what “Land” was supposed to be like you’d be severely disappointed how it turned out (like I was). Basically humanity was on its last legs, infestation was everywhere. The “Land-Trains” were supposed to be huge multi-trailer things 100s of metres long, dragged by amalgamated tanks and other armoured vehicles. Not a standard armoured truck with a big gun on it. The stragglers of humanity had made makeshift fortresses, and the whole world had become over-grown reverting back to its original un-kept state.

    And no sign of bloody Dennis Hopper and his utopia city in sight! ;)

    I think the raiding at the start of the film was the best bit personally.

    Like i said, I hope that RE3 turns out to be ok, i've enjoyed the first 2, so i'm sure that i will enjoy that too.
    Edited by 1 at 04/07/06 @ 11:10

  • AcidSnake #14 6 years ago

    I feel that the Resident Evil films always had an edge storywise over the 'dead' series in the conspiracy department...
    I admire the 'dead' series for never really adressing the question of where the infection came from, but resi can throw some nice twists at you...

    @rinoaMW
    Sounds like a very nice idea for the movie, do you have any links?
    None of this was mentioned on the dvd of 'land of the dead', or was it?

  • rinoaMW #15 6 years ago

    ack - i've been serching but alas. This was something a read ages ago, back when there was no hope of a LOTD movie. It was basically an extension of and modified "DAY" script with foot and side notes written in by Romero, explaining how the series was to evolve (i'm sure this must be something of this out there in the huge wide world of the internet).

    I'm not surprised that it wasn't mentioned, I musta read this back in the early 90's, and who knows how long it could have been around? My best guess would be post 1985-ish?

  • Daryoon #16 6 years ago

    Eh, the virus came from ants, did it not? That was a central plot point of Code Veronica. And in RE4 the virus was some ancient Lovecraftian thing.

  • AcidSnake #17 6 years ago

    No, I think you are confused...
    I was refering to the '...of the dead' movie series...
    Always about zombies, but never explaining where they came from...

    And the T-Veronica virus was a strand of T-virus inserted into ants...correct...
    And the lovecraftian thing is actually 'eternal darkness' or 'call of cthulhu' I would venture...
    Still...great games...and great movie series ('...of the dead')

  • MasterThief #18 6 years ago

    To be honest.....these films have barely alluded to the games at all. It's as if Hollywood don't have enough respect for the world that was already built in Resi 0-4 and Code Veronica. Sigh..... I'm not even going to bother seeing this film. I'll wait for the DVD.....

  • AcidSnake #19 6 years ago

    To it's defence RE4 wasn't out when they wrote the first two movies...
    And while the first one made only references, the second one could be seen as RE3:Nemesis the movie....
    Settings very much the same, storyline wildly different...
    Didn't like seeing all those STARS guys die in 5 seconds...

    But as Paul W.S. Anderson has said he intended to make the first movie a prequel to the games, the second movie alongside the games, and the third a continuation of the games...

    @MasterThief
    Indeed hearing the Ashford name and seeing the wheelchair guy didn't sound good at all...

  • smelly #20 6 years ago

    The problem with resi-2, is it didnt have as much copious nudity as resi 1..

    where was the nipples shot? where was the glimpse of her down below bits?

    rubbish!

    :-D

  • Drakron #21 6 years ago

    How totaly un-original.

  • AcidSnake #22 6 years ago

    Actually towards the end of the movie Milla shows 2 nipples this time around...
    Didn't catch it?

    We'll just have to wait for the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray version to magnify the image to 1080i and freezeframe...

    Or maybe we should get out more.. :)

  • MasterThief #23 6 years ago

    WE!? What's with the WE!?

    LOL!

    ;)

  • AcidSnake #24 6 years ago

    Why I was talking about my imaginary friend ofcourse...
    RE4 did this to me you know?
    The first play through took me 19 hours...19 hours?!?!
    The first resi game to actually keep me that busy...

    Come the next gen/new gen resi I'll be losing even more time, have 3 more imaginary friends and start conversing with invisible elephants...

    Damn you Capcom!
    Edited by 1 at 04/07/06 @ 16:11

  • smelly #25 6 years ago

    Actually towards the end of the movie Milla shows 2 nipples this time around...

    yeah, but no muff shot.

  • AcidSnake #26 6 years ago

    muf?
    Material Unaccounted For?

    Heh..appropriate...

  • nickthegun #27 6 years ago

    Well, she showed one nip in the first film and two in the second. So naturally for the third......

    Nice tangent, btw.

  • CyberClaw #28 6 years ago

    nickthegun, actually in the first movie you also get a muff shot. When she is in the operation table, with the side of her head shaven, we see that she hasn't shaved down bellow when she falls down...

  • MasterThief #29 6 years ago

    It's at times like these that I'm proud to class myself as a gamer.....

    :)

  • AcidSnake #30 6 years ago

    Now lets all go OT and discuss the best outfit to give Jill in the remake of Resident Evil 1 on Gamecube for the lowering ceiling bit where Barry comes to the rescue...

    My money's on the skirt...

    :)

  • animal_mother #31 6 years ago

    Ooh I can't wait, ANOTHER R.E. movie. Like we haven't seen enough already?

    There's still legs left in Romero's dead saga BTW. I agree with the comment about "Day" encapsulating the apocalyptic nightmare.

  • Megapocalypse #32 6 years ago

    Enjoyed the first two. Looking foward to this. :)

  • Danoxth #33 6 years ago

    "The Resi movies are those kind of movies that my head knows are crap, but my heart embraces like a warm, old blanket."

    I agree, but Ashanti, god no!!!

  • Mr_Brown #34 6 years ago

    Lets hope this is the last...it can't been any worse the first two...can it!?

  • manic_mouse #35 6 years ago

    "And Mad Max like convoys are much better than cheap CG creatures like Nemesis"

    Except the Nemesis in RE2 was never computer generated...

  • HelloWorld #36 6 years ago

    Where do those zombies get their energy from, after the supply of brains runs out?

    I seem to remember in one of the big zombie films the zombies just ran out of steam after a while keeled over.

    Anyhow, looking forward to this a bit. Mad Max+ zombies= good. Still have to see the second one though.

  • AcidSnake #37 6 years ago

    The second one had its moments...
    Nicholai was a kick-*ss character in the movie...

    The one where they ran out of steam was '28 days later' where after a few months they would simply collapse...

  • HelloWorld #38 6 years ago

    Thanks dude. 28 days later was a load of nonsense too. Good in parts though.