Third Resi film details
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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Why does the Dead Reckoning from the 'Land of the dead' movie suddenly come to mind?
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Let's hope they keep Wesker out of the thing as well...
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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.
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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.
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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)...
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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'!
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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')
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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...
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where was the nipples shot? where was the glimpse of her down below bits?
rubbish!
:-D
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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..
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LOL!
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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!
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yeah, but no muff shot.
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Material Unaccounted For?
Heh..appropriate...
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Nice tangent, btw.
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My money's on the skirt...
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There's still legs left in Romero's dead saga BTW. I agree with the comment about "Day" encapsulating the apocalyptic nightmare.
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I agree, but Ashanti, god no!!!
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Except the Nemesis in RE2 was never computer generated...
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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.
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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...
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