'Resident Evil' Spots Own Tail, Commences Swallowing Itself
09.08.09 By: Peter Hall
Bloody Disgusting is reporting that the producers of Resident Evil: Afterlife have glimpsed the dwindling future of their ongoing series and have decided to regress back to their infancy instead of embracing the inevitable demise of their franchise. Afterlife, the fourth entry in the series, was supposed to kick off a new trilogy of films chronicling the adventures of Alice (Milla Jovovich) as she raged against the faceless source of the zombiepocalypse, the Umbrella Corporation. However, B-D is claiming that producers have decided that increasing costs in keeping the principle talent on board will necessitate the fifth entry now be a reboot of the entire series.One would think that late in the game Sony Screen Gems might as well just do a spin-off series, right? Introducing a new starlet in Afterlife and moving on from there should be easy enough, but apparently that idea is too terrifying to even entertain. Instead the tentatively titled Resident Evil Begins will return right back to where the series started, "While it's a long, long, long way off, the idea is to redo the story of a special military unit who fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident."
Funny enough, in my searches for a picture of the Uroboros, the traditional symbol of a dragon that swallows its own tail forever representing the eternal return, I learned that the big threat in the fifth Resident Evil game is called...wait for it... the Uroboros Virus. Except in the game, that concept is used to make more monsters, not more money.
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Nefarious Angelat 9-09-2009
They really should go to the root of the game series and just do the original game as a movie. Then do Resident Evil 2/3 as another movie or two. I heard that Anderson had actually written a script that was pretty much the first game before it was scrapped for what became the first movie, not sure how much truth there is to that, but maybe they should dig that up. Having played the first two games entirely, I enjoyed the story and want to be able to see that or at least something pretty damn close. I liked the first movie, but I was disappointed that it didn't follow the game's story line. The second movie started to fade from the series and the third was completely off based and terrible (the trailer was the only good part of the movie). And where could you go with a squadron of Alices controlled by Alice, fight zombie super heros/villains? Also, Jason Isaacs must play as Wesker! Okay...done ranting :)