You cannot make a great 3D movie by just-it’s not some special sauce that you can sprinkle on.
And then the thing kind of grew organically, it grew an audience with it, I think.ĪNDERSON: My approach is very much kind of, I firmly believe that you have to start thinking about the 3D even in the writing process. I don’t think there was any one moment where we suddenly went, “Ah! This thing is huge!” We just continued to make the movies on a kind of one by one basis and try to do as well as we could. Obviously when I returned to the director, we made a big jump with Afterlife, in terms of the kind of audience that we managed to reach. And kind of that’s what the franchise has done, it’s continued to grow and grow and grow a fanbase. So, that’s why I kind of referred it to as “the little movie that could,” it’s like the little engine that slowly, it managed to get up the hill, it kept pushing and pushing and pushing. And then, I think the movie over performed, it did better than everyone thought it was going to. There was lots of things against it and we poured a lot of love and energy into making the best movie we could. It was quite soon after Columbine, so it was a video game that was known to be very violent and there was a big backlash against that, and I wanted to make it an R-rated movie and that was very unfashionable at the time. There was still skepticism about whether that was the kind of valid thing to do to that video games to movies. We’ll have more from Steve’s interview with Anderson on Collider soon, but for now you can read the full portion of the conversation pertaining to Resident Evil below. It’s really, even from this point, 3D is something I’m definitely thinking about.” Then when we build the sets, we build sets that I know will shoot well in 3D. I approach my films right from the inception, I kind of write action scenes and pick out locations that I think and know-because I’ve done so much of it-will translate very well into 3D. You can not shoot the movie thinking about 3D and do a last minute conversion and it can be a 3D movie, it’s just not gonna be a great 3D movie. Yes, you can do a last minute conversion. You make the dish and then you make hot sauce on top-it doesn’t work well like that. “I firmly believe that you have to start thinking about the 3D even in the writing process. “That’s what’s on the title page, it’s Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, so absolutely.”Īnderson was mum on plot details, but he did confirm that he’s writing the script with 3D in mind: The title of the film would seem to imply that this the end for Resident Evil as a film series, and Steve asked Anderson if the filmmaker is writing the script as if it’s the concluding chapter: