Rumor: Sony plans to follow Resident Evil: Afterlife with reboot Resident Evil: Begins

by David Hinkle { Sep 9th 2009 at 11:15PM }

According to BloodyDisgusting, Sony already has plans for a fifth film following 2010's Afterlife -- which jibes with what we heard back at Comic-Con. However, instead of signing on Jovovich to reprise her role as Alice for films beyond Afterlife, the studio is supposedly planning to reboot the franchise and go back to the beginning of it all.

The fifth film is tentatively titled Resident Evil: Begins, and would apparently follow ~~Bruce Wayne's ascent as Batman, guardian of Gotham City~~ a special military unit that battles a super computer within a complex chock full of the undead. So it'll basically be the first movie again.

[Via Kotaku]

Tags: capcom, film, milla-jovovich, movie, movies, paul-ws-anderson, resident-evil, resident-evil-4-afterlife, resident-evil-movie, sony, sony-pictures

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Special Agent Steve @ Sep 9th 2009 11:19PM

So, what happens if Afterlife fails miserably?

[ArchiGamer] @ Sep 9th 2009 11:22PM

We, kill the series with a headshot?

HippoHero @ Sep 9th 2009 11:24PM

You know something horrifying's just going to grow out from the stump.

WiredKnight @ Sep 9th 2009 11:48PM

You mean like RE3?

Blank-Mage @ Sep 10th 2009 12:11AM

You know, I love RE3, it was a huge part of my childhood, but I also noticed at a very young age that the place was designed by a crazed Rude Goldberg. For instance.

Racoon City had, for some odd reason, an automated statue with a place for a compass which also doubled as a switch for electrified water spouts to protect a book which - when given to the statue - turned and opened to reveal... a car battery. They had gates controlled by clocks that functioned only when gems were inserted, and those gems were for some reason kept in locked boxes in the police station. The bell tower could only be rung by correctly aligning three different clocks in three different portraits using three different colored rocks.

I'd keep going, but I think I've made my point. But yeah, don't make fun of Resident Evil 3.

Blank-Mage @ Sep 10th 2009 12:25AM

Oh, wait, did you mean the movie or the game? 'Cause that would have been a pretty good movie, too.

Massmass @ Sep 10th 2009 12:36AM

If it fails they can point to the reboot as a good thing and a time to get things right. If it succeeds they can point to it being a good thing because interest is rejuvenated for the new take.

If the Batman series could get away with it, what 3 or 4 times, I'm sure they can get away with it with RE. After all, those fans are more scary to deal with than RE ones. RE movie fans that is...

WiredKnight @ Sep 10th 2009 12:40AM

Oh, yes, I was referring to RE3 the movie failing miserably. I'd take any of the games over any of the movies any day.

Fargus @ Sep 10th 2009 1:13AM

If you call $147 Million worldwide failing miserably, I hate to see what it takes to be a success in your eyes....

WiredKnight @ Sep 10th 2009 4:48AM

@Fargus

Money's great, but did you actually watch a movie?

Yes, it was a failure.

Oh, I'm sorry, yes they were successful in making money off of a god-awful train-wreck of a movie, effectively cheating RE fans who still had reasonable expectations for even a halfway decent RE film.

Also, $147 million? You think that's really successful? Even such gems as Ace Ventura 2, Constantine, and even Kindergarten Cop earned more than that.

WiredKnight @ Sep 10th 2009 4:48AM

*watch the movie

Ryoga Vee @ Sep 9th 2009 11:22PM

A reboot?
It has not even been 10 years.

Rob S. @ Sep 9th 2009 11:23PM

You think that will stop them?

rells009 @ Sep 9th 2009 11:28PM

Reboots are the new thing in Hollywood.

Hulk got a reboot.

Star Trek got a reboot.

Superman may get one.

Fantastic Four is getting one.

The question is why would they use the plot of the first film?

SpyderTaco (PSN: Ar4chNova89) @ Sep 9th 2009 11:42PM

Transformers needs a reboot.
Michael Bay needs to be shot.

[ArchiGamer] @ Sep 9th 2009 11:45PM

I think Michael would rather be blown up into little pieces.

Phil @ Sep 9th 2009 11:47PM

IT wouldn't be just any explosion...

It'd be a MICHAEL BA-BA-BA-BLAM!!! EXPLOSION!!!!11!1!

KABOOM, SPLOOM, BANG, POW!

MICHAEL BA BA BA BLAM! KABOOSH!

MICHAEL BAYSPLOSION!!!

...Sorry. Done now.

Jason Statham (Has a ps3 now) @ Sep 9th 2009 11:51PM

"Transformers needs a reboot.
Michael Bay needs to be shot."

Oh this, fucking this. Transformers 2 was such a goddamn travesty. I'd really like someone who actually has respect for the franchise to attempt a Transformers film.

HighFiveJesus @ Sep 9th 2009 11:57PM

at rells009

WHAT?

they just had a superman movie and fantastic 4 movies not less than 4 years ago or so. they just had those reboots.

WiredKnight @ Sep 10th 2009 12:00AM

And wasn't Batman Begins a reboot? Or does that just qualify as a prequel?

Blank-Mage @ Sep 10th 2009 12:12AM

@Phil
"MABASPLOOM!"

Ryoga Vee @ Sep 10th 2009 12:23AM

Transformers 2 made $300+ million. Crap or not, BAYSPLOSION is laughing all the way to the bank.

HSOL @ Sep 10th 2009 12:26AM

Batman Begins is what started the whole reboot trend in Hollywood. Every time I hear about a reboot, I hear Batman Begins mentioned along with it, even from the filmmakers. Instead of calling it a reboot they should just say they're BBing it.

WiredKnight @ Sep 10th 2009 12:39AM

@Jason

And Transformers 1 wasn't?

Sly Cooper, Attorney at Law @ Sep 10th 2009 12:43AM

"Superman may get one."

another one? didn't they JUST reboot it a couple years ago?

Shignami @ Sep 9th 2009 11:27PM

I don't think I've ever slept as good as I have attempting to watch the first Resident Evil movie.

Here's to another peaceful night in 2012

SpyderTaco (PSN: Ar4chNova89) @ Sep 9th 2009 11:28PM

Hopefully the world does end in 2012 so this movie never sees the light of day.

Sly Cooper, Attorney at Law @ Sep 10th 2009 12:44AM

no cause i graduate in 2012. i'll never make it to college if the world ends then.

SpyderTaco (PSN: Ar4chNova89) @ Sep 9th 2009 11:27PM

God dammit.

That is all.

No Kill Tayler @ Sep 9th 2009 11:29PM

Maybe they'll follow the story of the game afterall?
(sans resident evil 5)

Ryoga Vee @ Sep 9th 2009 11:35PM

As far as I'm concerned Hulk was NOT a rebook, they just changed actors and continued where they left off. If Hulk is a reboot then so is Batman Forever.

Star Trek, reboot, maybe, but more along the lines of a prequel.

WREturns(There was once a dream called Rome) @ Sep 10th 2009 12:09AM

Star Trek was a reboot by virtue of the time travel causing an alternate timeline to appear. It was a really cool way to do it because it's as if there's an alternate dimension instead of erasing any previous Star Trek history.

Blank-Mage @ Sep 10th 2009 12:13AM

Yeah, it's justified denial of canon.

Kinsey @ Sep 10th 2009 12:37AM

Star Trek was a cop out imo. The whole time travel was really lame especially when Enterprise was canceled cause of all the time travel crap that was going on and lost interest in viewers.

Sly Cooper, Attorney at Law @ Sep 10th 2009 12:45AM

ryoga is right about hulk. considering bruce is already the hulk at the beginning at the movie, and already in hiding from the US military, it can't be considered a reboot.

Jason Statham (Has a ps3 now) @ Sep 9th 2009 11:50PM

I was recently watching I am Legend and during the scene where Will Smith is looking for his dog in the abandoned building, I was thinking that if they ever remade Resident Evil that's the way they should do it. Have like one or two characters trapped in some building filled with zombies and have it be creepy as hell.

Of course they won't do that and odds are the remake will be another, really stupid action film.

Chibi Chaingun - blackhivemedia.com @ Sep 10th 2009 12:13AM

Like the first game. Crew locked in zombie mansion.

Blank-Mage @ Sep 10th 2009 12:15AM

Zombies + Kung Fu = Do Not Want.
And while I'm on the topic.
Nemesis + Teary Moment of Humanity = Do Not Want.

Sly Cooper, Attorney at Law @ Sep 10th 2009 12:46AM

i am legend was a surprisingly good movie. the ending was a bit anticlimactic, but still, very good. i never actually got sad at the death of an animal until i saw that movie. poor little dog...

Guinea Rabbit @ Sep 10th 2009 2:20AM

It took three tries, but with I Am Legend, they finally managed to make a decent movie version out of the original story.

den-69 @ Sep 9th 2009 11:52PM

STOP CALLING THESE FILMS 'RESIDENT EVIL'
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD

Guinea Rabbit @ Sep 10th 2009 12:11AM

Maybe this time they'll use the characters from the ACTUAL GAME in the movie, as opposed to characters and a story that had nothing to do with the game.

Also, hand the job to a real director this time, not to some no-talent horror director like Paul W. S. Anderson.

Maybe you can even get George Romero to do it the way he wanted to do it the first time around. But no, the stupid twit movie studio heads decided to go with Paul W. S. Anderson instead of a horror film legend like Romero.

Blank-Mage @ Sep 10th 2009 12:15AM

I think legends are expensive, Rabbit.

WiredKnight @ Sep 10th 2009 12:37AM

Jill Valentine and Claire Redfield don't count?

Guinea Rabbit @ Sep 10th 2009 2:15AM

If I remember correctly, Jill wasn't included until the second movie. Claire wasn't included until the third. They were basically cardboard cut-outs intended to pay lip service and didn't resemble their original video game counterparts much at all.

And don't give me that shit about Sony not having the money to afford George Romero, who has done a lot of excellent films on what was basically an indie budget. George Romero had a good script already written that included the game's characters and story, but the Sony movie execs decided to go with a bland moviemaker (Paul W.S. Anderson) who promised them that he would churn out a bland horror movie that would appeal to the idiots that make up most of the general population. In other words, Hollywood as usual.

WiredKnight @ Sep 10th 2009 5:26PM

Yea I thought you were referring to all the movies, not just the first one. I'm kind of okay with them not having actual game characters in the movies, it makes it easier to separate them, quarantine, if you will. Better that they make awful movies with original characters than ruin the stories of preexisting, well known characters.