Yet Another Live-Action Resident Evil Movie Is Reportedly In The Works
Despite Welcome to Raccoon City's poor reception, Resident Evil is pushing forward with what looks to be another live-action movie. Dubbed "Umbrella Chronicles", the film is helmed by the same production company, Raccoon HG Film Productions, pointing to it possibly being a sequel.
The first film in 2021 was much more faithful than Paul W. S. Anderson's initial six films, all of which centred around a new character invented for the movies called Alice. Welcome to Racoon City instead chose to focus on the game characters, Leon, Claire, Chris, and Jill, telling the stories of the first two Resident Evil titles.
RELATED: Spider-Man 2 Needs Web Of Shadows' Symbiote Morality System
As reported by Canada's Sudbury.com, the Greater Sudbury area has received an $11 million boost from the provincial government, $2 million of which is going into Umbrella Chronicles. Like Welcome to Racoon City, it's being filmed in Sudbury, hence the financial support.
We don't know anything about the movie other than the production company and title, but it does share a name with an on-a-rails shooter that initially launched for the Wii and was later bundled with Darkside Chronicles for the PS3.
It's an anthology game made up of retellings of the main series. The first of which takes us back to Resident Evil 0 and its leading star, Rebecca Chambers. Dubbed "Train Derailment", this section has us playing as Chambers and Billy Coen as they escape a - you guessed it - train. They then find themselves in a training facility (what with all the 'trains'?), and end up fighting Umbrella co-founder James Marcus as he mutates into a body horror monster in true Resident Evil fashion.
The second scenario is a retelling of the first game in which Chris
Read more on thegamer.com
