Something happened to me two nights ago that resulted in this Twitter reminder to myself. I’m really trying to remember what it was that I drunkenly found so amusing about Resident Evil: Extinction that I would label it “high art.”

Probably because at the end of the third Resident Evil film, Paul W.S. Anderson’s crazy starts showing, what with multiple Milla Jovovichs and a handful of throwbacks to the original film with it’s laser mesh and Red Queen.

I’d have to watch it sober to see what “high art” concept I saw in the trilogy-capper of a series that I frequently talk shit about.

However, the cliffhanger ending that I always assume wouldn’t lead to another film actually is…

From Arrow In The Head:

Paul Anderson wrote the screenplay but he is not coming back to direct.

The screenplay is more akin to RE2 in terms of style, but with better dialogue. The overall tone is also very dark.

There’s enough hand to hand fights in the script for them to bring in a martial arts choreographer.

Patrick Tatopoulos (R3) will be in charge of the creature effects and they will have a new Special FX supervisor (in terms of the the practical effects) - Michael Lantieri (JURASSIC PARK 3)

The script is complete (they’re at Draft 2)) and they’re going to start casting before making any more script changes.

So far, they will be filming in Toronto and Tokyo. Toronto will actually front for Alaska.

They will be hiring a director once they have Milla officially signed back on.

Oh Paul W.S. Anderson. Will you ever create actual high art instead of accidentally stumbling into the absurd version of it?