With production scheduled to begin next month in South Africa,Resident Evil: The Final Chapterhas brought inAli Larterto portray Claire Redfield. This final installment of theResident Evilfranchise will be Ali Larter’s third time portraying Claire Redfield, following 2007’sResident Evil: Extinctionand 2010’sResident Evil: Afterlife.Milla Jovovichis coming back as Alice, but no other cast members have been officially confirmed at this point.
Production on this sequel has been delayed a few times, following the 2012 release ofResident Evil: Retribution. Filming was supposed to begin onResident Evil: The Final Chapterin the fall of 2013, but that never came to pass. Last year,Milla Jovovichannounced on her Facebook page that shooting was being pushed by one year, due to the actress' pregnancy. Production is still slated to take place in Cape Town, South Africa, which is where pre-production was taking place when the delay was announced.
Last month,Milla Jovovichshared the first photo from theResident Evil 6set as pre-production got under way.Resident Evil: RetributionstarsWentworth Miller(Chris Redfield),Bingbing Li(Ada Wong),Sienna Guillory(Jill Valentine) andJohann Urb(Leon Scott Kennedy) are expected to reprise their roles for this action-thriller based on the hitvideo gamefranchise.Paul W.S. Andersonis returning to direct his fourthResident Evilmovie, working from a script he wrote.
Paul W.S. Andersonis producing with Constantin Film’sRobert Kulzer, Impact Pictures’Jeremy Boltand Davis-Films’Samuel Hadida. TheResident Evilfranchise has earned over $915 million worldwide over five films, 2002’sResident Evil, 2004’sResident Evil: Apocalypse, 2007’sResident Evil: Extinction, 2010’sResident Evil: Afterlifeand 2012’sResident Evil: Retribution. This final installment should easily push the video game franchise to over $1 billion worldwide.
Ali Lartermost recently starred on the big screen inYou’re Not Youand Lovesick, and she will next be seen inThe Diabolical, arriving in theaters this October. On the small screen, she recently starred on TNT’s Legends alongsideSean Bean. Are you glad that Claire Redfield is coming back forResident Evil: The Final Chapter?
