Resident Evil scares up CG film

[Shin-Ra]

Resident Evil scares up CG film

Capcom and Sony Pictures coproducing animated film to tell a new story from the zombie-ridden franchise; release set for 2008.

Game publisher Capcom and movie maker Sony Pictures Entertainment have teamed up to produce three live-action films based on the Resident Evil games, each more successful than the last at the US box office. The pair today announced that they are teaming up once again, this time on a full-length, computer-animated Resident Evil feature.

The film will be titled Biohazard: Degeneration (Biohazard is the Japanese name of the Resident Evil series), and will introduce a new storyline within the series' universe. Beyond that, the only detail available about the feature is that it will be released next year.

The companies didn't specify if that release will be theatrical or straight-to-DVD, although game-based CG films have taken both routes in the past. In 2001, Square Enix released Final Fantasy: Spirits Within in US theaters, and then announced its retreat from the movie business after it failed to live up to expectations. Last year it returned to the world of game-based CG films with Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, which was released straight-to-DVD, but received a much warmer reception than its theatrical cousin.

Capcom has a number of film projects currently in the works. The company is collaborating with Hyde Park Entertainment on a new Street Fighter movie featuring Chun Li as the central character. The film rights to Onimusha and Devil May Cry have also been sold by the company.

[rjg]

Oh yeah!!!
This is great news. Just follow the game as close as posible and we are lookng at a Great franshise, Hopefully get every single game.

[evo_dadi]

Originally Posted by rjg

Oh yeah!!!
This is great news. Just follow the game as close as posible and we are lookng at a Great franshise, Hopefully get every single game.

+1 definitely easier to follow if they stay with the same story.

[Sling]

I was hoping for one more movie....I guess Alice wont be bringing her friends

[zombieking]

Originally Posted by Sling

I was hoping for one more movie....I guess Alice wont be bringing her friends

I wouldn't exactly count out the possibility of another live action RE. Extinction did quite well at the box office, I believe, and was left wide open at the end. Sony pictures could churn one out for '09

[SixAxiS]

Nice. Hopefully this CG movie will do justice to the RE franchise. The live action movies didn't feel like an RE...