The final chapter in Paul W.S. Anderson’s Resident Evil motion picture franchise will commence filming this August.
Writing on Facebook, actress Milla Jovovich, who portrays zombie-slaying heroine, Alice, confirmed that the project is back on track following delays to accommodate the birth of her second child.
“I’m really proud of myself for not gaining the same amount of weight that I did with our first child (75 lbs.) because I have to be ready to start filming Resident Evil: The Final Chapter in August of this year,” she said.
“I will also be nursing an infant simultaneously (get ready wardrobe department for Alice’s new ‘easy mama access’ costume ) so I don’t want to be on any extreme diets to get ready to go back to ‘action hero’ mode.”
The first Resident Evil film launched in 2002 and spawned numerous sequels, including Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), Resident Evil: Extinction (2007), Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) and Resident Evil: Retribution (2012).
Despite deviating considerably from the source material, the movies have proven a massive hit at the box office, generating nearly $916 million worldwide.
The Final Chapter is expected to be Anderson’s last contribution to the series, which is based off Capcom’s multi-million selling video game franchise. Talks of a reboot have been doing the rounds, although nothing has been confirmed as of yet.