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Plot Details for ‘Resident Evil: The Final Chapter’ Revealed
Some more plot details for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter were revealed at this year’s CinemaCon. I’m going to go over known information first before heading into spoiler territory, so be aware that that’s coming up.
Obviously, we’re going to se the return of Milla Jovovich as Alice, Ali Larter as Claire Redfield and Shawn Roberts as Albert Wesker. Joining them will be Ruby Rose as Abigail and William Levy as Christian. Furthermore, the movie was written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and is scheduled to hit theaters on January 27th, 2017.
Okay, here we go into SPOILER TERRITORY:
According to Latino-Review, the movie will see Alice and her band of merry misfits return to Raccoon City, the origin of the T-virus. The site says, the footage shown at the Con included, “…quick glimpses of zombies, monsters, explosions and gunfire. It also has new costume looks for Alice, Claire Redfield and Albert Wesker.
But perhaps the most interesting and exciting piece of news to come from the footage shown is that there might be a new virus introduced into the film, one that is airborne and has the potential to either reverse or simply eradicate the zombie apocalypse.
I have to admit, the idea of a virus battling a virus is something I’d never thought of nor heard of before, so I’m impressed and intrigued!
Oh, and the subtitle of the movie? Yeah, supposedly the footage confirms that this will indeed by Alice’s final story. As for movies without her? Who knows?
The trailer for Ti West’s upcoming adaptation of A Christmas Carol raised a lot of eyebrows when it dropped earlier this week. While plenty of folks initially dismissed Ebenezer as a derivative project meant to cash in on the recent wave of unnecessary prequels that expand the backstory of beloved characters (such as 2023’s Wonka), Charles Dickens’ original novel already made a point of exploring Ebenezer Scrooge’s origins in detail – meaning that this new film is likely just a particularly faithful adaptation of the source material under a different name.
Couple that with the fact that the movie is being helmed by a genuine horror auteur and I think it’s safe to say that the latest iteration of the first modern ghost story is in good hands.
That being said, one detail that immediately jumped out at me during the brief teaser (other than a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it nod to Johnny Depp’s iconic bedroom death scene from the original A Nightmare on Elm Street) is the fact that many of Ebenezer’s ghosts appear to have been directly lifted from the iconic John Leech illustrations that accompanied the first edition of Dickens’ novel.
Here are a couple of stills from the trailer compared to the original artwork:
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
The Phantoms in ‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘Ebenezer’
Marley’s Ghost in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
Mainly working with old-school wood and steel engravings that would later be transferred to print, Leech was instrumental in crafting the iconic look of history’s most influential phantoms – especially since Dickens is said to have been deeply involved with the creation of these so-called “comic illustrations.”
And since the novel is commonly said to have popularized spiritualism in Victorian England, much of the ghostly iconography that we still see in genre media to this very day (including some of Ti West’s previous films) can be traced back to the author’s partnership with Leech.
Ebenezer won’t be the first A Christmas Carol adaptation to borrow heavily from these designs, but I can appreciate how Ti West is incorporating an important part of horror history into his latest film.
Ebenezer will be available in theaters starting November 13.
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