Back in 1998, director Paul W.S. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt made the infamous sci-fi action movie
Soldier, starring Kurt Russell. A notorious flop, it gave Anderson some downtime to consider his next move. I couldn’t get hold of Paul for weeks, Bolt told
Empire in 2016. Eventually he returned my calls and I asked him what he’d been doing and he said, ‘I’ve been playing
Resident Evil! We have to make the movie!’ He’d literally been up all night for weeks playing this game.
That film arrived in 2002 and has spawned, to date, five increasingly bonkers sequels and a reboot that’s due in December. The six films so far have taken more than a billion dollars at the international box office. For a while it was officially the most successful horror film franchise of all time, until James Wan’s
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Itâs only been four years since the original
Resident Evil film series starring Milla Jovovich concluded, but this property is already getting the cinematic reboot treatment. Actors like Robbie Amell and Kaya Scodelario have been assembled for a new big screen take on the
Resident Evil video game franchise, and itâs been announced that the new movie is arriving a little earlier than expected.
In late 2020, it was reported that the
Resident Evil reboot would arrive in theaters on September 9, 2021, but as of today, Sony Pictures will release it on September 3, i.e. nearly a full week earlier. Right now,