MOVIE NEWS – After Resident Evil 7‘s successful launch in early 2017, the movie reboot of the franchise will also take a similar direction.

May 2017 had an announcement from Capcom, saying that Constantin Films is working on a cinematic Resident Evil reboot, and its script would be written by Greg Russo with James Wan (Saw, Aquaman, etc…) as the director – this duo is also working on the Mortal Kombat reboot as well. Last week, Discussing Film published an interview with Russo, who mentioned Resident Evil 7:

„Obviously I’m a huge fan of the franchise so to work on that was a lot of fun. And they’ve made six films before so when you come back to that and reboot it, you want to do something different and not just rehash. For me it was very clear-cut that I wanted to go back and make it scary again like a horror film in terms of the classic James Wan style, so that was the pitch, going back and looking what made the games scary in the first place so yea Resident Evil 7 was a bit of a touchstone for my draft. Not to shame the original film franchise that was made, I think that did very well, [but] when you create a fresh reboot and look at the over the top action of the Paul Anderson franchise, it was fun and really cool but at the end of the day, for me as a fan of the original game franchise, I always considered the franchise to be horror at the forefront and action as a secondary feature. So it just made sense to go back to the horror roots.” Russo, who has no involvement to the current progress of the film, has completed the script, and now it’s up to James Wan if Resident Evil does go towards this direction or not.

Resident Evil’s film reboot has no title or release date yet. (Meanwhile, Paul W. S. Anderson, the previous director of the RE films, is making a Monster Hunter movie… with Milla Jovovich, of course.)

Source: WCCFTech