While it’s already been confirmed that Milla Jovovich will be starring in a new Resident Evil movie, Resident Evil: Afterlife, it looks like the film that’s coming after that may not involve her character and could see the franchise getting a bit of a reboot. Writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson has previously described the new films as a fresh trilogy, although Bloody Disgusting is reporting that it could be all change post-Afterlife.
The quasi-reboot is tentatively title Resident Evil Begins and would take things back before the events that led to Alice’s adventures after the apocalypse and would follow a special military unit that fights an out-of-control supercomputer, as well as hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh eating creatures after a laboratory accident. So basically they want to make the first movie again, which would undoubtedly prove a lot cheaper than having to pay for Jovovich and all the increasingly complex special effects needed for her continuing adventures.
Presumably while these plans have been set in motion, the studio is waiting to see how Afterlife does when it’s released next summer, as if that’s a big hit it’d make sense to continue the Jovovich story (unless of course they plan to send Alice back in time in Begins). To be honest, a bit of a reboot wouldn’t be a bad plan, as while the Resident Evil films have been okay, things could definitely do with livening up.