It looks as though there may be a new Resident Evil reboot on the horizon! Luckily, this series looks to be more in line with the games.
Capcom has announced the 2017 movie titled, ‘Biohazard’, a CG Anime, will be an all-new story featuring fan-favorite characters Chris Redfield, Rebecca Chambers and Leon Kennedy.
Marza Animation, the company behind the new film released the following statement:
‘RESIDENT EVIL’ will be CG’d by a SEGA company behind SPACE PIRATE: CAPTAIN HARLOCK
MARZA ANIMATION PLANET INC., a CG animation film production company of SEGA SAMMY Group, today announced a production of a full CG animation movie RESIDENT EVIL CG 3 (working title) based on Japanese game developer CAPCOM’s internationally renowned videogame franchise RESIDENT EVIL.
The movie will be penned by Makoto Fukami (PSYCHO-PASS series) and directed by Takanori Tsujimoto (Hard Revenge Milly – The Beginning, Mobile Police Patlabor series, Ultraman X).
Notably, also Hollywood box office #1 hit J-horror creator Takashi Shimizu (THE GRUDGE) is attached as an Executive Producer and will oversee the production. Producer to RESIDENT EVIL game franchise and Milla Jovovich & Paul Anderson pair’s popular live-action movie franchise, Hiroyuki Kobayashi (CAPCOM) has joined the project as an Executive Supervisor.
The sixth film in the live action franchise Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is due for release January 27th, 2017 so it will be interesting to see how the two films compare when they’re released.
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