Resident Evil 3 is go
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With Resident Evil: Apocalypse making back about three times its cost at the box office, the film's production team was fully stoked to work together again on part three of the game-based series. Additionally, it's thought that a part four - set in Japan - is pretty much inevitable, though there's obviously nothing officially in place for it yet.Resident Evil: Afterlife, another collaboration between the US-based David Films and Germany's Constantin Film, is set in the Nevada desert but will be shot in the Australian outback, presumably for financial reasons. Paul W.S. Anderson, who wrote the first two of the series, will be back for this one, as will the smoking hot Milla Jovovich. There's no indication yet of Anderson will also produce (as he did parts one and two) or direct (as he did part one), but we at least do know that the movie "will be set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun with mutant zombies." And who doesn't love zombies?
Gamers, are these movies following the plot of the games (for example, is that why they already know where installment four will take place?), or have they gone off entirely on their own?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-06-2005 @ 10:24PM
pukgreenuniform said...
Well to awnser that last question...simply put...NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These movies have never even been influenced by the game series. To true fans of the game series this movie series is a joke. W.S. Anderson is only second to UWE Bull when it comes to the top five worst game to film directors. Did you know George A. Romero actually wrote a script for the first residant evil film , but was turned down by Capcom for differing from the plot of the game. When in reality it was leaps and bounds closer than the script capcom chose.
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11-08-2005 @ 4:00PM
Finished.Law.School said...
Good, these have been some of the most entertaining zombie movies of late...
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11-09-2005 @ 9:34AM
Jason Anderson said...
I approve. Bring it on. Mmmmm... Milla...
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11-10-2005 @ 7:03PM
Angelo said...
Well...anyone who has played the Resident Evil games will know for sure that the movies don't go accordingly with the games. Even though they have many things in common (such as how Nemesis looks exactly like the monster in Resident Evil:3; and Jill looks also the same) it doesn't mean that the movie goes along with the games. To my knowledge there was never a girl with superhuman powers that could escape and dodge Nemesis's attacks so easily in any of the Resident Evil Games. Like I said before, the movies have many attributes that the games contain but it doesn't go with the games at all.
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11-13-2005 @ 1:41PM
Chris said...
The movies show an interesting twist to the plot of the resident eivl games. some key elements have been kept in transition from game to movie but i do belive they could have been alot better. Im not saying the movies are bad but i am saying that they should have sticked closer to the orignial story line.
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11-13-2005 @ 5:34PM
John Landi said...
you guys are morons, just because they don't reflect the video games doesn't mean they are bad movies. i too would have liked to see it more follow the storyline of the game, but i still liked it how it was.
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11-14-2005 @ 7:18PM
Slork said...
Like most everyone has said yeah the movies didn't fallow the games. For example it's Jill that fights nemesis not Alice. But I still liked the movies and wouldn't mind a third movie even if it didn't fallow any of the games.
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11-15-2005 @ 4:40PM
Jellyfish said...
"To my knowledge there was never a girl with superhuman powers that could escape and dodge Nemesis's attacks so easily in any of the Resident Evil Games." - I think you will find that in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, you play as Jill Valentine and she can dodge and escape Nemesis' attacks quite easily, when he swings for her, she ducks.
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11-16-2005 @ 4:33AM
Sage said...
In response to the above, its not the fact that the movies are different from the games that makes them "bad" from a Resident Evilists standpoint but the fact that they contradict most of the facts learned in the games. For instance the first sentence of the opening monologue says something to the effect of "At the beginning of the 21st century..." when all Resident Evils take place in 1998 and the movie is supposedly before them which last time I checked was the end of the 20th Century.
NOTE: ONLY READ IF YOU CARE ABOUT A FEW DIFFERENCES AND YOU DONT MIND SPOILERS!!! Nemesis' scar is on the wrong eye, the mansion is DEEP in a forest, not 3 trees, lickers are not engineered they are turned, the Ashfords founded Umbrella and are based in Antartica, Nikolai is a Supervisor and Carlos is a Corporal, Jill kills Nemesis, Umbrella is primarily a pharmacuetacal corporation, there were only ever 13 S.T.A.R.S. members and as of RE: Apocalypse only 5 of them remained alive, Nemesis only killed 1 S.T.A.R.S. member: Brad 'Chickenheart' Vickers, Umbrella did not close down the Raccoon City borders the Military did, the hive could not be beneath the mansion there was the entrance to the dead factory, Lickers did not exist when the first movie took place because the G-Virus had yet to be invented, and my person pet peeve the events of every single Resident Evil are directly influenced and partially controlled by one man: Albert Wesker, and he's nowhere to be seen.
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11-16-2005 @ 4:59AM
chris said...
i dont really give a rats if the film is not even close to the game. It's entertaining and come on theres milla who in their right mind does'nt mind seeing her running around in those sexxxxyyy out fits. seriously guys' whats not to love
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11-16-2005 @ 3:57PM
ben said...
the movies have nothing to do with the game, true fans have been waiting for a real resident evil movie for a long time and it has to take place in the mansion if a good producer could take that job and make the original story you will make thousands of fans happy
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11-16-2005 @ 4:10PM
ben said...
I strongly agree wityh your comment sage, and were is william birkin? they are still missing a lot of the original story line but hey it could of been a lot worse. Its not as bad as the house of the dead movie i rather see a resident evil movie than see no resident evil movie at all, just keep the r-e movies coming and will be fine.
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11-18-2005 @ 10:41AM
Jason said...
I liked the first film, but the 2nd was short and I always had a feeling that they are copying the games too much! Yeah base it on a game, but not too much (e.g. Claire Redfields gun stunt COPIED and Graveyard zombies (code veronica X) COPIED, but how! T-virus can't affect the already dead!).
If I was them I'd do the follow up to the second, (SAME CHARACTERS, DON'T MAKE ANY MAGICALY DISAPPEAR!) and bring Nemesis back to life, He was created evil, HE'S NOT GOOD!
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