“Resident Evil,” the wildly
successful film franchise adaptation of the popular video game series that has
grossed nearly $700 million worldwide, returns with its highly anticipated
fifth installment, “Resident Evil: Retribution,” written and directed by Paul
W.S. Anderson.
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| Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures |
In
the film, the Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the
Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating
Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice (Milla Jovovich), awakens in
the heart of Umbrella's most clandestine operations facility and unveils more
of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex.
Without
a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a
chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow,
culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink
everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by newfound allies and
familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile
world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.
“The
story-line of `Retribution' is intricate and a bit twisty and turny, which is
quite cool and will take many people by surprise,” explains Anderson, the
creator and main engine behind the whole “Resident Evil” cinematic franchise.
“I think the first movie had a very intricate structure, and then the films
that came later became a bit simpler and linear in terms of the way they were
plotted. So, I wanted to kind of go back to that original structure in this
movie; but, whereas `Resident Evil' had a more modest scale to it, here we have
the intricate structure of that first movie with a much grander scope to it.
Hopefully we have the best of both worlds…”
Tying
the films in conjunction with the celebrated video games was also a primary
concern for Anderson. “We took fight moves directly from a scene with Ada Wong
in the game Resident Evil 4, and then Resident Evil 5 has a car chase through
the desert in which our heroes are driving an armored Hummer with a machine gun
in the back of it that we recreated with a Phantom Rolls Royce in the Red
Square.”
Indeed,
“Retribution” aims to be the most ambitious “Resident Evil” movie to date. “One
of the reasons this franchise has grown is because we have never rested on our
laurels and just done the same thing again,” says Anderson, “but it’s
definitely a pressure to up the ante each time. The last movie was such a
success that I wanted to kind of push the envelope with this one. And part of
that has to do with the whole globetrotting nature of the film. We have shot in
Moscow’s Red Square, Shibuya in Tokyo, Washington D. C. and Times Square. And
we have even been out in the real snow and ice of Alaska! So, we have tried to
make the first epic undead movie with `Resident Evil: Retribution.'”
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