Resident Evil (film) set for a reboot

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The franchise was set to end with this year’s “Resident Evil: The Final Chapter,” which grossed $312 million worldwide after its January release, including an eye-popping $160 million in China alone. Sony helped sow the seeds of success by securing a release for “Resident Evil: Afterlife” and “Resident Evil: Extinction” in China.

Based on the Capcom video game, the series launched in 2002 with Paul W.S. Anderson directing, and Anderson, Jeremy Bolt, Bernd Eichinger, and Samuel Hadida producing the first of a six-movie series. The “Resident Evil” movie franchise has earned $1.2 billion worldwide to date, making it Europe’s most successful independent horror-genre movie franchise in history and the highest-grossing film series to be based on a video game.

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News of a big screen Resident Evil reboot broke over the weekend, but details were few and far between. Today, Deadline has an update on the project, reporting that James Wan (The Conjuring, Furious 7) is set to produce from a screenplay by Greg Russo. Russo is best known for writing the upcoming Mortal Kombat movie reboot.


According to Variety, the current plan is for this Resident Evil reboot to span six new films with an all new cast. Constantin Film is also producing alongside Wan’s Atomic Monster. A search is currently underway to find the right director.

These Resident Evil movies get glossed over, but I always forget they're pretty big hits worldwide. The most recent one grossed over $300MM world wide on a $40MM budget. That's not putting up record breaking numbers but on a relatively modest budget, that's A LOT more than I thought it'd earn.

I'm hopeful that whatever they do for the reboot they go for a clean slate tbh. I fell off after the 2nd RE film.

[A Platypus Rave is Correct]

the last report I heard with a synopsis of the reboot was literally a reboot of the first movie...

which I mean fine... but we already went that way.

Though I do wonder if they'd continue with the Alice is the only on allowed to show competency because it's the director's wife

[Zone Was Wrong]

I just want a faithful adaptation of the games using the characters I've grown to love from said games. No Alice please. I enjoyed the first movie as a possible prequel to the games. No great but enjoyable and reminiscent to the first game.

[StuntGranny®]

Just when it was (seemingly) finally over, they do this? No. Why? No.

[J Lee O'Brien]

May 22, 2017 11:28:13 GMT -5 StuntGranny® said:

Just when it was (seemingly) finally over, they do this? No. Why? No.

Money.

[Chainsaw]

Hollywood is the f***ing worse, you guys.

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It's whatever the German equivalent of Hollywood is in this case

[A Platypus Rave is Correct]

...Das Hollywood?

[Hawk Hart]

Oh, great, yet another way for film studios to entirely f*** up the narrative.

[Push R Truth]

May 22, 2017 14:18:22 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave is Correct said:

...Das Hollywood?

and starring David Hasselhoff
directed by David Hasselhoff
music by David Hasselhoff
animal stunts by David Hasselhoff
made possible by the magic of Hasselhoff-o-vision

[The Heartbreak TWERK]

I assume the same guy will who directed them all in the first place will be directing the reboot, casting his wife in the same role she already played.

So, it's not a reboot, it's a f***ing remake.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

So can we get the series built around Leon S Kennedy or are we still stuck with Alice?

[tenshi]

What if Resident Evil's new big bad in the movies is Alice?

[Jiren]

Well on the bright side, the game series is good again

OK it was 1 game but it made up for 5&6

[El Cokehead del Knife Fight]

Remove Alice entirely; adapt the characters that people care about like Jill, Leon, Chris & Claire. The most annoying thing is that the woman who played Jill in the second film had the look and physical movements down but they did sweet f*** all with her in it and just made Alice a monster.