Thursday, January 29, 2009

Resident Evil 4 (Movie, Not Game)


According to JoBlo, "We recently reported on the impending RESIDENT EVIL 4 here and now we just got a couple of nuggets of info from a VERY RELIABLE source as to the production. Here are hints as to what we're in for!

Paul Anderson wrote the screenplay but he is not coming back to direct.

The screenplay is more akin to RE2 in terms of style, but with better dialogue. The overall tone is also very dark.

There's enough hand to hand fights in the script for them to bring in a martial arts choreographer.

Patrick Tatopoulos (R3) will be in charge of the creature effects and they will have a new Special FX supervisor (in terms of the the practical effects) - Michael Lantieri (JURASSIC PARK 3)

The script is complete (they're at Draft 2)) and they're going to start casting before making any more script changes.

So far, they will be filming in Toronto and Tokyo. Toronto will actually front for Alaska.

They will be hiring a director once they have Milla officially signed back on."

I thought the first "Resident Evil" film wasn't that bad even though it really strayed from the game by creating characters and following its own storyline. In "Resident Evil: Apocalypse," at least characters from the game appeared and it loosely followed parts from the games. "Resident Evil: Extinction" was just cr*p.
A good RE movie is "Resident Evil: Degeneration," but to completely understand it you might want to play the games (and it even leads into the fifth game, which comes out in March).
If they are going to follow along with the ending that was in "Extinction" (which was cool, but for RE, it just didn't suit the series), then I will be disappointed. I love Milla Jovovich as an actress, but I think her character has become unnecessary.
Until then, more news to come! Catch ya' later!

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