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“Like one of the brain-slurping zombies that populate his Resident Evil film adaptations, director Paul W.S. Anderson wants more. According to a Comic-Con report on horror film site ShockTilYouDrop.com, Anderson has confirmed that he will write and direct a 3D fourth entry in the series, and that the project would be the first in a new three-film arc.

“I wanted to kick off a brand new trilogy,” Anderson told the site. “I’m really excited we’re doing it [in 3D], and we’re using the same camera system [James] Cameron used for Avatar. There are a lot of exciting things about this one. I don’t regard it as Resident Evil 4; I regard it as a retooling and rebirth of the entire franchise.”

The film will be called Resident Evil: Afterlife and will once again see Milla Jovovich star as gun-toting heroine Alice. ShockTilYouDrop.com reports the film is expected to open September 17, 2010, and will feature new characters pulled from the game series.

Resident Evil: Afterlife was originally the name of the third film in the series, which was eventually released as Resident Evil: Extinction. Even before shooting began on Extinction, a fourth film in the series had been planned. That project was to be set in Tokyo and filmed on location.

It’s been a newsworthy Comic-Con for Anderson fans. Yesterday, James Wan, who cowrote and directed Lionsgate’s horror film Saw, told a different horror film site that he would be cowriting and directing the Castlevania film Anderson is producing.”

Will the movie look like this? Probally not as good.

What I think of this?

Well with the Live-Action series of Resident Evil’s standard of quality. I’m pretty sure this is going to be just another terrible movie adaption. Having played through almost every Resident Evil game (I’m only missing out on RE5(waiting for the PC release) and Survivor series), the RE Live Action movies were horrendous. They massacred the story although I do have the guilty pleasure of enjoying Apocalypse as a B-Grade action flick. The characters in the film didn’t really resemble the characters they were supposed to either and why was Alice even included? Even with all the crazy stuff in RE, a super-powered person like her just doesn’t fit in. So all in all, I’m pretty sure this will turn out to be just another B-Grade movie though I hope it looks a bit like Degeneration though, the zombies looked so much better then any Live-Action film could make.

My Hype Level: 17% (not really caring but will keep an eye out for it)