History will attest as to whether 2017’s Resident Evil: The Final Chapter truly was the last entry in the franchise (it’s not like horror movie series don’t have form announcing themselves as the last midway through the run), but the new one has certainly been locking down its cast with production underway. A mix of new and returning faces are aboard including Orange Is The New Black’s Ruby Rose, Eoin Macken, William Levy, Fraser James and Japanese model/TV personality Rola.
Milla Jovovich is naturally back as Alice, with fellow veterans Iain Glen (Dr. Isaacs) and Shawn Roberts (Albert Wesker) back and Ali Larter also in place.
The new film, somewhat understandably, picks up right from the end of Retribution, with humanity facing its final fight after Alice is betrayed by the sneaky Wesker in Washington D.C. She’ll have to go back to where it all began – Raccoon City – to take on the might of the Umbrella Corporation’s forces and rallying the last of the survivors of the viral apocalypse. Oblivion, chaos, battles and kittens are all promised. Well, maybe not kittens. Zombie kittens, perhaps?
With Paul W.S. Anderson once more writing and directing, The Final Chapter should invade our screens on February 24, 2017.