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Paul W.S. Anderson Talks ‘Resident Evil 4’ Possibilities
It’s not all that shocking after the success of Sony Screen Gems’ Resident Evil: Extinction, which took in $150 million worldwide at the box office, that there is now talk of getting a fourth RESIDENT EVIL film off the ground. MTV caught up with writer-director-producer Paul W.S. Anderson who reveals that there might possibly be another adaptation in theaters, read on for the skinny and let us know what you think? Where should the fourth film take us?
“Resident Evil: Extinction,” the third video-game to big screen adaptation in the popular series will likely not be the last, Anderson said, although talks for a fourth film are still in the very earliest stages of development.
“I’m just starting to talk to Sony about it,” Anderson confessed. “I don’t even know if anything will come of it, but there’s a possibility it might happen.”
He continues…
“I love the `Resident Evil’ franchise and we always try to make the best possible movie we can. If we could find a good `Resident Evil 4′ to make, then we would do it,” he said. “But I wouldn’t just do it for the sake of it, that’s for sure.”
Netflix is reuniting with Emilia Perez director Jacques Audiard on an adaptation of French horror novel La Nuit ravagée, Variety reports today.
The project is described as an elevated horror film based on the critically acclaimed horror novel by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo.
It’s set in “Saint-Auch, a fictional suburb on the outskirts of Toulouse in Southern France, in the early 1990s. It follows a group of teenagers drawn to an abandoned house that exerts a strange power on them. After one of their friends dies under disturbing circumstances, they decide to enter the house, not suspecting it’s alive with something supernatural. Once they enter it, it begins to feed on their private fears, desires, and traumas, turning their psychological vulnerabilities into something monstrous and inescapable.“
The French-language Netflix original marks Audiard’s first foray into horror.
The divisive Emilia Perez, Audiard’s Spanish-language musical crime drama, amassed 13 nominations at the 97th Academy Awards but also met with controversy when offensive tweets by star Karla Sofía Gascón during the film’s award campaign.
Del Amo’s source novel was published last year and has been described as an homage to ’80s and ’90s horror in the vein of Stephen King, though its social realism is what lends itself to the elevated horror concept and Audiard’s attachment to the project.
Stay tuned for more as it arrives.
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