5 October, 2000

Resident Evil

If you're a fan of the video game Resident Evil and were excited about the prospect of a movie based on it, give up now. The movie will be made but that's not the problem. Paul Anderson, director of such cinematic masterpieces as Event Horizon, Soldier and Mortal Kombat, has been hired to direct the movie version.

The movie will be about a special forces unit sent to battle zombies. A massive laboratory accident has mutated hundreds of scientists into flesh craving zombies. Production will start in January somewhere in Europe with an eye towards a Halloween 2001 release.

Unless Anderson has turned over a new leaf, I would be very skeptical that this could be anything but a really bad movie. So far I'd say Mortal Kombat was his best movie and that's about a backhanded compliment as you're ever going to hear.

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