According to Production Weekly Paul W.S. Anderson will be returning to direct another Resident Evil film. Anderson took the reigns for the first film back in 2002 but decided to take a step back and just write the sequels, opting instead to direct AVP: Alien vs. Predator and Death Race. Resident Evil: Afterlife is scheduled to begin an 8 week shoot starting from September 28th in Toronto, which gives them roughly a year to complete the film as Sony has set the release date for September 17th 2010.

Update: From Shocktillyoudrop:

ShockTillYouDrop.com just talked exclusively to Paul W.S. Anderson, who revealed that Resident Evil: Afterlife will be released in 3D and will kick-off a new trilogy!

Anderson, who will write and direct, told us that the fourth film in the franchise will have the largest budget of all the films so far.

Milla Jovovich will return as Alice in “Afterlife,” opening September 17, 2010. You can also expect some returning characters from the previous films and new characters from the video games.

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Exactly one year ago we heard that director Paul W.S. Anderson was talking to Sony about making a fourth Resident Evil film. Resident Evil: Extinction tripped it’s budget so i’m sure it didn’t take much convincing, and now we have word that it may have a title, Resident Evil: Afterlife, and that it may be released next year.

From ShockTillYouDrop:

Late last year, Paul W.S. Anderson revealed he was indeed writing another film. Capcom was getting involved. Everyone, as he said, was “excited.” Well, we’ve just learned from a studio insider that Sony is looking to get Resident Evil: Afterlife into theaters by September 17, 2010. That’s according to an internal memo circulating through the offices there.

Will Anderson direct? Unsure. Will Milla Jovovich be back? I think it would be safe to say yes considering the last entry ended on – SPOILER ALERT – Alice clones getting ready to seek revenge on the Umbrella Corporation which was holed up in Tokyo.

If they are indeed looking at a September 2010 release date then we should be hearing more developments over the upcoming weeks and months.

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MTV caught up with director Paul W.S. Anderson, who says that a fourth Resident Evil movie is a possibility.

“I’m just starting to talk to Sony about it,” Anderson confessed. “I don’t even know if anything will come of it, but there’s a possibility it might happen.”

“I love the ‘Resident Evil’ franchise and we always try to make the best possible movie we can. If we could find a good ‘Resident Evil 4’ to make, then we would do it,” he said. “But I wouldn’t just do it for the sake of it, that’s for sure.”

Are you up for another Resident Evil or should they stop at Extinction?

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