Call me crazy, but 90 minutes of Milla Jovovich doing anything is worth watching -- doubly so when her activities deal with zombies, monsters, and ridiculous high-tech weaponry. Yes -- deep sigh -- I'm a (slightly) reluctant fan of the Resident Evil series. (Yep, there's even some stuff I like in Part 2. Like Sienna Guillory.) When I'm writing or net-browsing or playing hours of Zuma, I often like to have a familiar movie playing in the background (like most people do with, um, music) and the Resident Evil flicks fit the bill quite nicely sometimes. (Depending on my mood, of course. Last night my relaxation movie was The Mask of Zorro.)
So it's my relative fandom for the series that leads me to share this half-piece of semi-news: According to the always-fun MTV Movies Blog, series master Paul W.S. Anderson has started speaking to Sony about a Resident Evil 4. And don't even dare act surprised when a series that grossed this much money moves forward on another adventure. How many Police Academy movies were there? (OK, bad example that isn't exactly helping my argument, but I seriously lost count. There were about 28 Police Academy movies? Or it only felt like that many.) Mr. Anderson doles out the reliable "Oh, once we get a good script ... We're not gonna do it just to do it" schpiel, which means he's probably about three weeks away from hiring a writer.
One would assume that Ms. Jovovich's participation would be a foregone conclusion. Actors get paid pretty dang well once you start getting into Part 4 territory. And good for her. For whatever these movies are worth, Milla certainly earns her paycheck on each one. I also like the fact that Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and Resident Evil: Extinction are alphabetical (which makes my DVD shelf all tidy). Perhaps the next one should be called Resident Evil: Obliteration. (What else would come after extinction?)
1. yeah if you ever played the games or read the books you would dislike paul and milla as much as i do the movies get worse as they go on a clone army or milla? where the hell is that in the story of the games ? a super hero chic? no i have to say i will not see resident evil for...check out the cg movie resident evil degeneration when it comes out thats a real resident evil movie with real characters but what this series is on the big screen is just some stupid tomb raider mixed with zombies
Posted at 12:09PM on Jul 2nd 2008 by vega