Last Resident Evil movie delayed as Milla Jovovich announces pregnancy

Those who have anxiously followed Paul W.S. Anderson’s live-action Resident Evil film series will have to wait just a bit longer until the final movie of the franchise comes out, as his wife and franchise star Milla Jovovich announced that production for the last movie will be postponed due to her pregnancy, as confirmed by IGN.

 

Jovovich conveyed the message to her fans via her Facebook page:

 

Loosely based on the best-selling Capcom survival horror series of the same name, Resident Evil sees Jovovich play the character of Alice, a former security operative trained by the Umbrella Corporation who is inevitably experimented on and turned into a bio-weapon. 

 

After their experiments and a viral outbreak leak out and plague the world with a growing zombie epidemic, Alice makes it her mission to eliminate Umbrella once and for all, and is joined by other survivors and allies through the course of her adventures in the film series. 

 

Her name being a play on the character from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice’s story and quest all came to a head on the last film, Resident Evil: Retribution, where she and a few other freedom fighters led by the enigmatic Albert Wesker stand as humanity’s last hope in destroying Umbrella and their monstrous creations once and for all.

 

Although adapted from the popular games and produced by Capcom and Screen Gems, the Resident Evil films have started down their own path that is separate from the events of the video game series. 

 

Many familiar characters like Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, Leon S. Kennedy, and Albert Wesker appear, but their characterizations are vastly different or altered to meet the conditions of the films and their continuity. 

 

It’s these changes, as well as the superhuman display of agility and Matrix-inspired gunfights, that make the Resident Evil live-action films a farcry from the games storywise. The level of intense action and zombie-killing however are the primary draws for the film, and have contributed to the franchise’s achievement of being the highest grossing film series based on video games of all time. — TJD, GMA News