Resident Evil... 3?

[Bartwald]

From SciFi Wire:

Paul W.S. Anderson, who wrote and produced the upcoming zombie sequel film Resident Evil: Apocalypse, told SCI FI Wire that he would like to oversee a third installment in the video-game-inspired franchise. "I think it's a franchise that has legs, and I would very much like to see a third movie," the filmmaker said in an interview. "I don't know if I'd direct it. I think it would have to depend on what happens." Anderson (Alien vs. Predator) also wrote, produced and directed the first Resident Evil movie, which is based on the best-selling Capcom game series.

Anderson, who passed on directing Apocalypse to helm Alien vs. Predator, added, "Either way, whether I directed it or not, it would be a franchise I would want to stay very much in control of and very involved in. There's a broad range of stories to tell, a very wide Resident Evil universe, so there are a lot of potential stories that we could do that would be tied in to the video games."

In Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Milla Jovovich returns as Alice, joining newcomers Oded Fehr, Jared Harris, Sandrine Holt and Sienna Guillory as Jill Valentine, Alice's equal in butt-kicking. Anderson describes Apocalypse as a "direct continuation" of the first Resident Evil. "At the end of the first movie the Umbrella Corp. are going to reopen the Hive and discover what went on down there," Anderson said. "And at the start of this movie that's what they do. And the infection, the T-virus, escapes and infects Raccoon City, which is above the laboratory. The story then basically takes place over 24 hours, as the city is completely overrun with undead and is actually sealed by the Umbrella Corp. so that no one is allowed out of it. And we follow a handful of survivors as they attempt to escape the city. The survivors include Alice, who survived from the first movie, and she hooks up with well-known characters from the video-game series, and Jill Valentine is one of those characters." Resident Evil: Apocalypse opens on Sept. 10.



I still remain un-excited by the news.

[Gabriel]

I thought the film was ok...

But the best thing to happen is t wait a while... then someone to come along and do another...from scratch.

Much like Batman... forget that the other movie hapenned and try again, only this time making a horror.

Eerie symphanies rather than heavy rock guitars... I can see it already!

[slayrrr666]

It was recently announced that the guy from the mummy films who was in part 2, damned if I can remember his name, has signed on to do part 3, as well as Sienna Guillory, Mike Epps, and Milla. Any thoughts on this?

[LivingDeadGirl]

slayrrr666 said:

It was recently announced that the guy from the mummy films who was in part 2, damned if I can remember his name,

That would be Oded Fehr...I'd watch a third one if he was in it.

[Quorthon]

Avoid the movies, play the games.

You'd have a much better time.

Especially if you play RE4 or the GameCube remake of the first. Those games are fucking scary!

[slayrrr666]

livingdeadgirl said:

slayrrr666 said:

It was recently announced that the guy from the mummy films who was in part 2, damned if I can remember his name,

That would be Oded Fehr...I'd watch a third one if he was in it.

Thanks, LGD. All I had to do was look up a post and find it. How dumb am I?

[LivingDeadGirl]

quorthon said:

Avoid the movies, play the games.

You'd have a much better time.

Have to agree w/ ya there...the games are actually pretty creepy. There were some moments that actually made me jump when I used to watch it being played.

[LivingDeadGirl]

slayrrr666 said:

Thanks, LGD. All I had to do was look up a post and find it. How dumb am I?

No problemo...

[Quorthon]

livingdeadgirl said:

quorthon said:

Avoid the movies, play the games.

You'd have a much better time.

Have to agree w/ ya there...the games are actually pretty creepy. There were some moments that actually made me jump when I used to watch it being played.

RE4 blew my mind. My wife basically watched me play the whole game, with plenty of surround sound and the lights off. The shit they threw at yah in there... I mean, it just kept getting weirder and creepier! You keep playing and thinking, "christ, how could it get worse than this?" And then it does!

There's plenty of reason why RE4 was on so many Top Ten lists last year, and more reason as to why it was so often touted as Game of the Year.

[LivingDeadGirl]

I haven't watched a whole lot of 4 yet...but I remember in the first one the place where the dogs jump through the window of the lab, or whatever it was. Sheesh...that one got me more than once b/c I'd always forget about it .

[Quorthon]

livingdeadgirl said:

I haven't watched a whole lot of 4 yet...but I remember in the first one the place where the dogs jump through the window of the lab, or whatever it was. Sheesh...that one got me more than once b/c I'd always forget about it .

They actually out-did that dog scene in RE4. There's a section where you fight this huge bastard called "El Gigante" and a dog (hopefully rescued earlier by you) helps you out. Then, right after that, you trudge back up to this church and, well, here's how I went along (with my wife watching) : NOTE: IF YOU DON'T WANT A SPOILER ON RE4, DON'T READ THIS!

I walk up the rickety path in the rain back to the church. I see a silhoutte of a dog. I say, "oh hey, it's my dog again!"

Dog pounces on me, I yell (really I did), "what the fuck!?!" I mash the A button furiously to get the dog off. My wife was just as surprised, but instead started laughing at my panic. The detail is so great you can see the dog's teeth on Leon's face.

I knock the dog off. I panic and fire several poorly aimed rounds into the earth as I try to back away from the dog and the two others that just showed up.

I damage the dogs, one or two go down. I calm slighty as I try to take out the other. Making my shots count while simultaneously trying to run away. Oh, and I gotta protect the girl that's with me. That's always "fun."

The dogs on the ground move. "Gimme a break!!" I say. But they don't just get up, hell no. Tentacles and shit spurt out of their backs. They get up and charge after me, now with tentacles flying at me from their spines. The sound is unbelievable.

Eventually, I kill the dogs. I've taken quite a bit of damage. And I can hear nasty villagers in the distance. So my fun isn't over just yet.

All of this happens in a very poorly lit area, at night, while it's raining. It was timed so perfectly that the first time you run into these mutant dogs is right after becoming all buddy-buddy with a different one.

The lesson: Never drop your guard when playing Resident Evil.

Damn, now I want to play Resident Evil...

[LivingDeadGirl]

quorthon said:

The lesson: Never drop your guard when playing Resident Evil.

Heh...I don't think you can let your guard down while you're WATCHING it either. ;D I also remember the part from the first one where you have to fight the giant spider.... Yick...

[Quorthon]

livingdeadgirl said:

quorthon said:

The lesson: Never drop your guard when playing Resident Evil.

Heh...I don't think you can let your guard down while you're WATCHING it either. ;D I also remember the part from the first one where you have to fight the giant spider.... Yick...

The Hunters are what really got to me. And in the GameCube remake, the newly introduced Crimson-Head Zombies were scary as hell. They'd run straight at yah!

[LivingDeadGirl]

quorthon said:

The Hunters are what really got to me.

Which ones were those?

[Quorthon]

livingdeadgirl said:

quorthon said:

The Hunters are what really got to me.

Which ones were those?

The look like huge green shaved gorillas with jagged teeth. They can leap at you from across a room and decapitate you--even with full health. In the GC remake, they're no longer deaf.