Producer Promises Final <cite>Resident Evil</cite> Movie

Next-Gen sat down with movie producer Jeremy Bolt and had a nice long chat about Resident Evil: Extinction, which he "believes" will be the last film. We can but hope. In all seriousness, the Resident Evil movies have been wildly successful thus far, earning more than $100 million each, and Bolt expects that Extinction will follow suit.

Bolt is heavily involved with the creation of videogame flicks. Besides the Resident Evil triology, he also produced DOA (he's as disappointed as you are), and is currently working on Driver and Castlevania movies, but as he explains, it's getting harder to find properties that will translate well and also be practical to make:

We see a lot of games that sell well but they will cost a lot of money to make. There are so many games in different genres out there that have already been made. Silent Hill has been made. Resident Evil has been made. There are a plethora of games now. And it's going to cost a certain amount of money to make them. To get the confidence of a studio, you need a strong IP and a film that won't cost a huge amount to make.

Horror, on the other hand, can be done fairly well relatively cheaply. Horror themes also reach out to non-gamers because certain fears are universal--running from zombies, for example.

It's an interesting read, and illustrates that the thought that goes into these films is more than just "what game sells a lot?" Oh, and for the record, I love the first Resident Evil movie, even though it's complete crap. Second one, not so much. I'm willing to give it some artistic license, but Nemesis with a Terminator-esque HUD? Um, no.

Resident Evil Faces Extinction [Next-Gen]