Resident Evil movie director begins writing sixth movie script

Love it or hate it, the Resident Evil film franchise doesn't look like it's about to end anytime soon. Writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson has announced that he'll begin drafting the sixth Resident Evil movie today, following his most recent project, February's volcano disaster movie Pompeii.

Ozzie Mejia

April 28, 2014 3:00 PM

Love it or hate it, the Resident Evil film franchise doesn't look like it's about to end anytime soon. Writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson has announced that he'll begin drafting the sixth Resident Evil movie today, following his most recent project, February's volcano disaster movie Pompeii.

"I have to go home tomorrow to start writing Resident Evil," Anderson said at the Beijing International Film Festival. CCTV (via Polygon) reports that the film's tentative title will be Resident Evil: Rising.

Anderson added that actress Li Bingbing would return as Ada Wong after she previously played the character in 2012's Resident Evil: Retribution. It is unknown whether Milla Jovovich will return as Alice, the central character of the previous movies.

Ozzie Mejia

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Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?

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Love it or hate it, the Resident Evil film franchise doesn't look like it's about to end anytime soon. Writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson has announced that he'll begin drafting the sixth Resident Evil movie today, following his most recent project, February's volcano disaster movie Pompeii.
- datalaughing
  
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  April 28, 2014 4:49 PM
  
  I hate these films. They're terrible. And I absolutely know that I'm part of the problem because I keep giving them my money to sit there and shake my head and go "No, that's so bad."
  - the archvile
    
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    April 28, 2014 6:10 PM
    
    What do you think will release first: the seventh Resident Evil movie, or Resident Evil 7 (the game)?
  - Pettytheft
    
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    April 28, 2014 6:20 PM
    
    The first couple were decent then they've got progressively worse.
- catman1027
  
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  April 28, 2014 4:53 PM
  
  I'll admit they are a guilty pleasure movie series for me. I know they aren't good movies. But they aren't bad movies either. Once you get past the "there is no real tie to the video game series, besides a few characters" they are a stupid fun movie. I own all of them and don't regret the purchase.
- tobalaz
  
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  April 28, 2014 5:28 PM
  
  Milla Jovovich is smoking hot. I'd watch her in a "Happy Days" movie if they made one.
  That being said, can we kill a few more zombies and get a little less cloth in there?
  - iamcuddles
    
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    April 29, 2014 5:35 AM
    
    Tell it like it is man. The first one was good. Now I only watch them for her. I love her.
- lightly inclined
  
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  April 29, 2014 6:18 AM
  
  Whatever, I'll watch it. These flicks are just dumb fun.
- jtthe2nd
  
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  April 29, 2014 10:17 AM
  
  Why would anyone pay good money to watch any of these movies in a theater? I can understand watching it when it's on tv or it happens to be uploaded to youtube but throwing away more than $2 to watch this garbage is dumb.