29 October 2007
Ferry

Resident Evil: Degeneration animated movie announced by Capcom & Sony

Capcom Japan’s representative director and president: Haruhiro Tsujimoto (Capcom) and Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan representative director and president: Ken Munekata (SPEJ) have announced coproduction of Resident Evil: Degeneration, the first full-length CG animation feature based upon the Resident Evil series of games and movies. Currently in production, it’s got plans for a terrifying release in 2008.

Resident Evil (called Biohazard in Japan), began as a hit international video game franchise created by Capcom, then made its debut on the silver screen as the live-action film Resident Evil, distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Entertainment. Resident Evil is the first trilogy of live-action movies to have come from a video game franchise. Capcom and Sony Picture’s Japanese subsidiary SPEJ have teamed up to give birth to a CG-animated Resident Evil with groundbreaking visual effects and a brand-new story line.

Since its initial release in 1996, the Resident Evil series of games has established the “survival horror” genre and has shipped over a 33 million units worldwide, continuing to captivate its fans as a powerful property. Capcom will continue to release new games within the franchise, such as “Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles” for Wii and “Resident Evil 5″ for PS3 and Xbox 360.

The films “Resident Evil” and “Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse” have each grossed more than US$100 million at the Box Office internationally. “Resident Evil 3: Extinction” has been the biggest hit of the series in the U.S. to date, by grossing over US$48 million in just over three weeks, adding to the high performance and public support for this zombie-loving franchise.

15 January 2008 19:34
BlitzFox

Finally, a movie that will do justice to the characters of Resident Evil we all love! Leon Kennedy, Claire Redfield… rumor has it Albert Wesker… It’s about time! The other movies were an absolute embarassement because they messed up the established plots and characters so bad. Thank God for this new one!! From the look of it, it’s going to become the “Advent Children” of the RE fanbase. I absolutely can’t wait to see this movie!

16 January 2008 19:17
Wesker

I’m curious about something. Was there as much animosity towards those Steve Perry Resident Evil books as there is towards the movies? I think the movies are miles better than those awful books, but that’s just me. I guess the books lucked out because they came out when the ‘net wasn’t quite so densely populated.

I certainly hope this RE movie is the ‘Advent Children’ of the franchise, because I LOVED AC. I’m sure graphics wise it won’t be up to Square Enix standards (which are the top notch.. better than Pixar IMO, or any US CGI company for that matter), but even if it looks like RE4, I’d find that highly entertaining.

On a side note concerning RE4, was anyone else really cheesed that Wesker had absolutely NONE of his awesome powers he displayed in CV? When I got him in Mercenaries mode, I was hoping to do some badass stuff, but he just ran around like a ponce in a suit with a sniper rifle. Now, Krauser on the other hand.. whoo boy!

17 January 2008 21:03
LordMalice

ohh man, I honestly didn’t enjoy RE4 , story-wise, it was important, but, I mean the experience, was…gah, well, different. All in all it was good yes, but very different. and Yes, I was pretty disappointed. Really, they left that out completely, even if it would have made things hell of a lot easier, still, he did indeed have awesome powers, amazing strength, endurance, and I would assume, an incredible “amount of health” (talking game-wise). BTW, Wesker’s scenarios in Umbrella Chronicles were amazing. I loved it when on Jill’s scenario, it shows Tyrant ‘kill’ him, then on his scenario he discusses what his plans were with that T-Virus variant.

3 February 2008 13:32
Gramur

Hello all I am someone who jumps around forums internet-wide making fun of abreviations, I’m here to make a d*ck of myself because you can tell everyones intellegence by how they type on the internet. I mean come on why not type out the word?! u type you!! Because it shows how smart you are, come on, pretend your 12 again, spelling test incoming, because no one uses abreviations on the internet!
CG movie gonna be the best something that actually is goin to portray the game over some brand new story line from the live-action ones, those were horrible, cmon you know the only reason you were there is because you see Milla. But yes Leon and Claire, the two characters from my favorite installment into the franchise, I so want them to remake RE2 for the Wii with a graphics update like on the GC with RE1. 2008 release is what I heard, hope its soon…..

24 February 2008 14:27
pistol grinn

the res evil films could have been written by children, and if you grew up on george a romero zombie films then as zombie movie’s they were a waste of time. writing that was hard without swearing beacause theye ruined resident evil for me. so i am looking forward to this film i think it will be great.

5 March 2008 19:49
trent

i read the books and played the games and finally something that relates. i hope there will be other characters besides leon and claire. though i didnt really like that umberella died as said in RE4 make a game that is all about destroying umberella secret facillities. lastly i think umberella is far from finished.

12 March 2008 19:43
Pris

@Trent: Of course Umbrella is far from dying. >.> Can anybody say “Albert Wesker”?

17 March 2008 18:24
Skylar

Albert Wesker….and yes Umbrella will be back,hes got the data and samples of virus’s