Those gore-lovin' knuckleheads over at Bloody-Disgusting.com spent a few days on the set of Resident Evil: Extinction (surrounded by women like Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory and Ali Larter, those lucky bastards) and while they haven't come back with their full set report (which, frankly, doesn't even interest me all that much), they've gleaned a few choice nuggets from the cast and crew members.Oded Fehr will be returning for RE3, and he dropped a vague little tidbit regarding a certain looming sequel: "From what I know ... they're writing one that's totally different, in a different time. Brendan (Fraser) and Rachel (Weisz) are in it." Hmph. The Mummy Returns Again? We'll see.
Stopping by to chat with Ms. Larter, the BD.com boys learned that she will not be reprising her role in the upcoming sequel to House on Haunted Hill -- even though she signed on to star in the second sequel to Resident Evil. Oh well, moving on, the gorehounds hit the mother lode when they sat down to chat with producer Jeremy Bolt, a guy who's made a lot of movies with the fanboy-controversial Paul W.S. Anderson. (Anderson directed Mortal Kombat, Event Horizon, Soldier, Resident Evil, and Alien vs. Predator, if you must know.) The partners' next project will be a "less parody, more reality TV" remake of Death Race 2000, an NES-to-celluloid rendition of Castlevania, and a sequel to this movie, which looks so sinfully bad that I can't wait to see it.
1. Being a fan of the videogames and their kooky puzzle-adventure meets pulse-pounding action style (I swear, at the end of the second game there's a long section where alarms are blaring and the place you're in is supposedly going to blow up any minute, but despite the fact that there is no timer and you can waltz around at your own pace, I still end up running full-speed *every* *single* *time*) ...well, I actually enjoyed the movies. They were faithful adaptations of their strange source material, captured the unique mood and language of the games, the cinematography was nice, and while Anderson may not be the most flamboyant director, at least it wasn't as bad as that second Tomb Raider movie.
I'm not too familiar with Castlevania (ten minutes of pounding zombies with whips was nice, but not enough to make me give up Fate of Atlantis), but I'm assuming that the Warren Ellis/James Jean animated project that leaked a while back is more likely to be great.
Of course, Anderson may just cast Milla as the vampire-whipping Belmont in that, at which point I will have to keep aside money for a ticket, a High-def DVD, and the official bedspread-set.
Posted at 4:33AM on Jun 29th 2006 by Vishal