Paul Anderson Talks "Resident Evil 3"

Sci-Fi Wire spoke with "Alien vs. Predator" Director Paul W.S. Anderson who said he would like to oversee a third installment in the video-game-inspired franchise "Resident Evil". Anderson wrote both movies, directed the first and produced the second which opens next month.

"I think it's a franchise that has legs, and I would very much like to see a third movie, I don't know if I'd direct it. I think it would have to depend on what happens" says Anderson who also explained why he passed on helming the second one - "Either way, whether I directed it or not, it would be a franchise I would want to stay very much in control of and very involved in. There's a broad range of stories to tell, a very wide Resident Evil universe, so there are a lot of potential stories that we could do that would be tied in to the video games".

Anderson calls the second film a 'direct continuation' from the first movie - "At the end of the first movie the Umbrella Corp. are going to reopen the Hive and discover what went on down there and at the start of this movie that's what they do. And the infection, the T-virus, escapes and infects Raccoon City, which is above the laboratory.

The story then basically takes place over 24 hours, as the city is completely overrun with undead and is actually sealed by the Umbrella Corp. so that no one is allowed out of it. And we follow a handful of survivors as they attempt to escape the city. The survivors include Alice, who survived from the first movie, and she hooks up with well-known characters from the video-game series, and Jill Valentine is one of those characters".