


It was a movie meant for an audience to come together in a dark room and jump and scream. They loved 47 and they loved the way it was an ‘audience movie’.
#Resident evil 3.5 magazine series
They knew they wanted to reboot the series they didn’t really know what to do. They’re a German company, I’m half German and we had the same weird kind of sense of humour. As I was waiting in the office I got a message from my agent going ‘oh I think this about Resident Evil‘ and we met and we started chatting and we just got on. I had just done 47 Metres Down and then I got a call going ‘do you want to go and see Constantin ?’ I had been in the office many times because I knew Jeremy Bolt who had produced the previous franchise but I’d actually never actually met with Constantin. We speak to Roberts about visiting Capcom, rebooting the Resident Evil franchise and why it was important for him for the latest movie installment of the franchise to revisit its horror roots… How did everything start for you with Resident Evil: Welcome To Racoon City? When that evil is unleashed, a group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night… The company has left the city to move to pastures new and left Racoon City a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. Written and directed by Johannes Roberts, Resident Evil: Welcome To Racoon City, sees the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City, now a dying Midwestern town.
