Director Paul W.S. Anderson has confirmed that he's currently writing the script for the next Resident Evil movie, and according to the director it's likely to be the last in the series.
"Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is the working title," he told Collider. "It may end up being the final title, but that's what's written on the front page of my script... I'm right in the middle of [the first draft]."
There's no date set in stone for when the production will begin: "There are no set dates for shooting yet. I think we're waiting until we have a first draft screenplay and then go from there."
Anderson also confirmed that the film will be shot in 3D, and that there's no set date for release (natural given there's no set date to start the shoot).
During the interview, Anderson also had some interesting things to say about the very first film in the series:
It as a movie that no one really wanted, that no one was excited about, it was based on a video game and for a while there, since Mortal Kombat, there hadn't been any successful video game adaptations. Although, me returning to that genre obviously gave it a better chance than most.
There was still skepticism about whether that was the kind of valid thing to do to that video games to movies. It was quite soon after Columbine, so it was a video game that was known to be very violent and there was a big backlash against that, and I wanted to make it an R-rated movie and that was very unfashionable at the time. There was lots of things against it and we poured a lot of love and energy into making the best movie we could. And then, I think the movie over performed, it did better than everyone thought it was going to. So, that's why I kind of referred it to as "the little movie that could," it's like the little engine that slowly, it managed to get up the hill, it kept pushing and pushing and pushing. And kind of that's what the franchise has done, it's continued to grow and grow and grow a fanbase.
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