The filming of the new Resident Evil movie ends, which wants to make a clean slate regarding the adaptations with Milla Jovovich.
A clapperboard that marks more than eighteen hours of film and two names: Johannes Roberts (director) and Maxime Alexandre (director of photography). Next to him, a terrifying television with static noise. That has been the image chosen by Sony Pictures to announce on their social networks that the filming of the Resident Evil film reboot has come to an end. A news that comes after weeks of images and leaks about the locations of the film.
That’s a wrap in Raccoon City. 🎬
diREcted by Johannes Roberts pic.twitter.com/q5mmQxjFQo– Sony Pictures (@SonyPictures) December 28, 2020
Will it be the Resident Evil movie we all want?
The image once again has that atmosphere of terror that Johannes Roberts has been boasting so much about until now. The director (whom you may also know from films like 47 meters away and Forest of the Damned) does not stop ensuring that the film will have the setting that all fans dream of and has promised to “return to the roots of the game” . Although it’s going to be hard to get over the gulp of Paul W.S. adaptations. Anderson and Milla Jovovich (now distracted by their own version of Monster Hunter), it seems that Roberts is serious: “With this movie I want to go back to the two original video games and recreate that terrifying and visceral experience that I had when playing. But at the same time time I want to tell a very human story about a small and decadent American town with whom today’s audiences can empathize and feel relevant ”.
To get around the curse of video game adaptations, Roberts will have a cast of familiar faces, but no big egos. A cast in which no one has anything in common with the previous adaptations. Part of it are Robbie Amell (Code 8) as Chris Redfield, Kaya Scodelario (The Maze Runner) as Claire Redfield, Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp) as Jill Valentine, Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Kill and Finish) ) as Leon S. Kennedy, Tom Hopper (The Umbrella Academy) as Albert Wesker and Neal McDonough (Minority Report) as William Birkin. We will see if the tape arrives in time for 2021, the year in which Resident Evil Infinite Darkness, another film in the saga, is also scheduled to arrive on Netflix, but in its case of animation. For now everything looks too good.
Source: Sony Pictures
