Resident Evil : Apocalypse

Since there has been so many news posted in different threads for some time on this follow-up to last years Resident Evil movie, I thought it was a good idea to post an offical thread for this one (if I'm allowed that is).

Resident Evil: Apocalypse stars Milla Jovovich reprising her role as Alice and Eric Mabius taking on the Nemesis role. The film also stars Emily Bergl from The Rage: Carrie 2 who will be playing Claire Redfield - it is said that her role won't be a major role but will add to the playout of the entire movie.

* The story (or plot) is pretty much expected and predicable (predicable that we all knew what the films plot would be after the end of the first RE movie). The survivors try to escape Raccoon City from the hordes of zombies and other nasties inculding having a badass monster called The Nemesis on your tail. There are heaps of new characters thrown in, some strait from the game and others made up:

Jill Valentine: In her 20s, Valentine is a cop. Currently on suspension, the raven-haired Valentine is one of the few cops with experience in dealing with the Undead, and she comes back to work uninvited when Raccoon City is overrun. Tough and resourceful, she is cut off from the rest of the cops when the Undead win, and along with Sergeant Peyton Wells, she tries to find a path to safety through a town crawling with flesh-eating monsters. Along with Alice, she leads the small group of human survivors, and finds her bravery and determination challenged literally at every moment.

Carlos Olivera: Battle-hardened with dark good looks, Olivera is the head of the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Force, a corporate paramilitary unit sent into combat to defend Umbrella’s interests. Ordered into Raccoon City to help fight the Undead invasion, Carlos soon finds his unit overwhelmed and cut off. Partnered with Nicholai Sokolov, Carlos joins forces with Alice, Jill, and Peyton, and together they try to fight their way out of the city. He is tough, cunning, and resourceful, as well as quite cynical about Umbrella’s willingness to abandon their employees to an ugly death. He is introduced in the "Resident Evil 3" videogame.

Major Cain: With close-cropped hair and piercing eyes, Cain is part of the paramilitary army run by the Umbrella Corporation. Under orders to contain the crisis when the Undead escape from the Hive and overrun Raccoon City, Cain proves himself to be a cold, calculating, amoral, ruthless company man, willing to sacrifice anyone and anybody. Having developed Addison/The Nemesis as the ultimate soldier, Cain sees the Undead attack as the perfect test of the capabilities of The Nemesis, and he’s icily amused to pit Alice against his bio-engineered killing machine.

Sherry Morales: A pretty gal in her 20s, Morales is the vivacious, feisty and ambitious weather reporter for a local station, who has always wanted to be taken seriously as a journalist. When the city is overrun by the Undead, Sherry is quickly taken off the air, and has to flee for her life. She falls under the protection of Alice and Valentine, and does her best to record the truth of the horrors of Raccoon City with a camcorder. Terrified but willing to do what it takes to defend herself, Sherry ultimately is attacked by a gang of Undead children, but after her death her video is aired and she acquires posthumous respect for her work.

Dr. Ashford: Beset in a wheelchair and armed with an IQ in the high hundreds, Ashford is a genius who invented a formula to develop super-humans. Possessed of a crippling neuro-muscular disease, Ashford hoped to prevent his beloved daughter, Angie, from becoming an invalid like himself. Unfortunately, his formula fell into the hands of the Umbrella Corporation, who accidentally created a hellish virus during the course of creating a super-soldier. Now left behind when the starving Undead besieges Raccoon City, Ashford uses his cunning to communicate with two teams of survivors, offering them both a helicopter flight to safety if they will only rescue his daughter. But in the end, Ashford’s genius can’t save himself. Interestingly, in the videogames, his grandson and granddaughter play a prominent role in "Resident Evil Code: V," trying to reclaim the honor of their lineage.

Sergeant Peyton Wells:A hardened police officer, the casting notes say he’d be "the kind of man you’d trust in a bad situation." A sergeant with the Special Tactics and Rescue Squad, Peyton works to fight the sudden invasion of flesh-eating Undead, but is bitten in the leg during a retreat. He joins forces with the suspended Jill Valentine, and together they attempt to find an escape route out of the city before the infection transforms him like all the others. A tough man who hopes that his sister and her daughter made it out of town, Peyton fights alongside Alice and the others.

Nicholai Sokolov: Carlos’ second in command, this rugged younger man bears a face that is like a roadmap. Part of the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Force, he is ordered into action when the Undead overrun Raccoon City. The Russian-speaking Nicholai is shocked by the horrors on display in the city. His small unit grows steadily smaller, and he and Carlos later are cut off and join forces with Alice and Valentine. Coldly rebuffed when he tries to flirt with Alice, he is later captured by Major Cain.

Daddy Prime: A well dressed pimp daddy, he survives the first attacks of the Undead, and finds himself holed up in a gun store. Amused to find himself fighting alongside Captain Henderson, Daddy Prime uses his custom Uzis to gun down the Undead, and is miraculously spared when Nemesis wipes out the other humans at Mostly Colt. The casting notes suggest this role is currently being expanded.

McKenzie:A Scotsman in his early 30s, McKenzie is a human survivor of the plague of the Undead, who is holed up in the Ravens’ Gate Church, along with Valentine and her party. A man who is losing his grip and desperately frightened over having left his wife behind, he is only in two scenes…so you can guess what happens to him.

* Giving up the directors chair this time round, Paul Anderson will instead be producing this movie (and has also written the script). So, who is the director? Well, the honour goes to none-other than Alexander Witt.

* Although, it has not yet been confirmed: Jason Issacs may be playing the lead villian in the movie: William Birkin. Also, Jack Noseworthy (whoever he is) will be playing the helicopter pilot Brad Vickers.

* Also, From Bloody-Disgusting.com, "The Mummy" star Oded Fehr, will be playing the head of the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Force, a corporate paramilitary unit. Not sure what his characters name is yet, but could it possibly be Carlos Olivera? And, Sienna Guillory is set to play Jill Valentine one of the movies main characters.

* Production on the film is set to start on August 11th.

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