It takes skill to make a franchise of movies that remains consistently good from the original movie to each subsequent movie. The Resident Evil franchise is one that I feel has managed to do this. However, this may be due to a personal bias that Resident Evil’s character ‘Alice’ is one of the best female characters in any film (no damsel in distress here!).
That being said, those who saw the third of the Resident Evil movies, Resident Evil: Extinction, and felt that it ended with the blatant a very blatant suggestion of a sequel to follow can now look forward to just that.
The fourth in the series, Resident Evil: Afterlife is slated to hit theaters in August of 2010, and brings back Paul W.S. Anderson (director of the first film in the franchise) to write, direct, and produce the film. Many of the actors from the previous films will also be returning for Resident Evil: Afterlife, including Milla Jovovich in her role of Alice.
The movie is going to be filmed in 3D, and is the last film to move the franchise’s plot forward before going back for a prequel, and follows Alice as she plays heroine and leads her fellow survivors to safety (or is it actually a trap?) from the undead. Production is said to be starting soon.
