New York Comic Con is well underway, and ComicBook.com is meeting up with the event’s biggest creators. Not long ago, Dallas Jackson was able to meet up with director Paul W.S. Anderson to talk Resident Evil to ask whether the franchise’s next film will actually be the last – and it will.
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“It’s the final chapter,” Anderson said. “There is a conclusion, absolutely.”
“That’s why we’re going back to where it all began – going back to the Hive, back the remnants of Raccoon City [or] what’s left of it after we dropped a bomb on it. The ‘Alice’ character is going back to where it all started to find out the truth about herself and to [conclude] the story she set in motion ten years ago.”
ComicBook.com’s Brandon Davis was able to hear Anderson speak more about the film during NYCC’s Screen Gem panel. The director told fans, “We make the movies for you guys.” He also took time confirm Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is the end.
“We’re bringing it full circle. It’s coming back to where it all began,” Anderson said. “It’s also a very emotional movie, bringing Alice’s story to a conclusion.”
Earlier today, the full official trailer for the film dropped and can be seen here.
You can read the official synopsis for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter below:
“Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, humanity is on its last legs in Washington D.C. As the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity’s final stand against the undead hordes, Alice must return to where the nightmare began – Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse. In a race against time Alice will join forces with old friends, and an unlikely ally, in an action packed battle with undead hordes and new mutant monsters. Between regaining her superhuman abilities at Wesker’s hand and Umbrella’s impending attack, this will be Alice’s most difficult adventure as she fights to save humanity, which is on the brink of oblivion.”
Based on the Resident Evil video game series by Capcom, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and stars r Milla Jovovich as Alice, Ali Larter as Claire Redfield, Ruby Rose as Abigail, William Levy as Christian, Eoin Macken as Doc, Rola as Cobalt, Lee Joon-gi as Commander Lee, and Iain Glen Dr. Alexander Isaacs.
Principal photography on Resident Evil: The Final Chapter began in Sept. 2015 in South Africa and concluded on Dec. 9, 2015.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter releases in theaters on Jan. 27, 2017.
