All the Resident Evil fun with none of the backtracking.
While we cannot possibly think of a reason why Capcom would not be satisfied with the live-action Resident Evil movies of recent years, it appears that they've decided to take the series' cinematic fate into their own hands by releasing an animated Resident Evil move of their own design.
Dubbed Resident Evil: Vendetta, this project was revealed at the Tokyo Game Show and is expected to be released sometime in the Spring of 2017 in Japan. There's no word yet on a Western release date, and we sadly don't even have a trailer to share with you as the film's reveal was done behind closed doors.
So what do we know about this movie? Well, it will be produced by long-time Resident Evilproducer and designer Hiroyuki Kobayashi and Grudge director Takashi Shimizu. Meanwhile, Takanori Tsujimoto (Bushido Man) will be handling directing duties.
As for the movie itself, it will be a CG animated film (thus crushing our dreams of a full-length Resident Evilanime) that will be an original tale but is set to star franchise regulars Chris Redfield, Leon Kennedy, and Rebecca Chambers. There is considerably less information available about the plot outside of Capcom's tease that it will be similar to the original Resident Evil game.
There are a couple of ways to interpret that piece of information. The literal way is that the movie will be similar to the first Resident Evil game in the sense that it will serve as some kind of follow-up to the original title, which does seem to be supported by some screenshots that Famitsu ran which show a mansion setting for the film that is very similar to the one in 1996's Resident Evil. The less literal way is to read into that tidbit is that the film will attempt to provide a more traditional horror experience as opposed to the live-action movies which are more of the action/horror variety.
Of course, there's always the possibility that we're due to receive a film that features thirty minutes of a character wandering around trying to figure out where to put this freaking blue gem.
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