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"Resident Evil" Gets Big-Screen Treatment
Mortal Kombat helmer Paul Anderson has signed a deal to direct Resident Evil, a $40 million horror thriller based on the popular best-selling video game, according to Daily Variety. Anderson, who most recently directed the Kurt Russell sci-fi flick Soldier (just turned into a video game) and 1997's Event Horizon, also wrote the script.
The story follows a military task force battling to save the world from a powerful supercomputer that's run amuck. The Special Tactics and Rescue Squad must face and defeat hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating zombies due to a laboratory accident.
A cross between Night of the Living Dead and James Cameron's The Terminator, Resident Evil was hailed as a groundbreaking 3-D adventure game when it debuted on Sony's PlayStation in 1996. When Capcom, the company behind the early '90s hit Street Fighter, adapted Resident for the PC, the game not only was the company's biggest-selling game ever, but it spawned a global following, three sequels, a director's cut and even a prequel.
Combining cinema-quality graphics and sound, Resident focused on players' heavy fixation with blood and gore, recycling some of the best elements horror movies had to offer: flesh-eating zombies, mutant creatures and lab experiments gone awry.
"For those unfamiliar with the game, it would make a pretty excellent movie if they got it right," said Nick R., a scooper on Ain't It Cool News. "The plot involves a crack team of 'special agents' investigating bizarre murders outside 'Racoon City.' They end up in a huge mansion and soon find out that it's the cover for a series of genetic experiments resulting in the creation of [all kinds of] outlandish monsters."
While the game's story might sound appealing to rabid joystick jockeys, Resident's popularity is so huge that Germany's Constantin Films, which owns the rights to the film, has been trying to jumpstart the movie and find a director for some time.
Legendary Night of the Living Dead director George Romero initially was rumored to be up for the job, seeing that he shot a number of commercials in Japan for the game's sequel, Resident Evil 2. But it was Paul Anderson who finally got the nod.
Resident Evil starts shooting in January in London. It's scheduled for a Halloween 2001 release.
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