The End of Evil

The most successful video game franchise ever comes to an end in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.

Among the diverse group of acting talent are returning stars Milla Jovovich (Pitch, Resident Evil franchise, The Fifth Element) reprising her starring role as Alice, Ali Larter (Resident Evil: Afterlife), as Claire Redfield, Shawn Roberts (Edge of Darkness, Resident Evil: Afterlife), as Albert Wesker, and Iain Glen (Game of Thrones, Resident Evil: Extinction) in the role of Dr. Alexander Isaacs.

Writer, director, producer and franchise veteran, Paul W.S. Anderson (The Three Musketeers; the Resident Evil franchise), returns to helm the project.

The improbable beginning of Paul W.S. Anderson’s fantastically successful, franchised motion picture adaptation of the Resident Evil video game reads like a Hollywood ending. Producer, Jeremy Bolt, who has worked with Anderson for 25 years, including all the Resident Evil editions, recalls, “Back in 2002 we had just made a movie for Warner Bros. called Soldiers, which did not perform as well as we’d hoped. So I went back to England and made a couple of small films, and Paul holed up in his house in Venice Beach where he played video games for six months. Out of the blue he called to say, ‘I’ve been playing the game Resident Evil and we have got to get the film rights’.”

Since then, Resident Evil has grown to become one of the most successful game-to-movie franchises in the history of cinema – the first five instalments in the franchise grossed in excess of US$1 billion worldwide, earning consistent No. 1 openings at the box-office. Thrilling fans of Capcom’s original video game and action/sci-fimovie audiences alike, the movie franchise has built up a hardcore fan base in the millions and a reputation of its own over the 14 years that it has enthralled audiences with cutting edge action and a continually novel approach to the sci-fi/action genre.