The first trailer for Paul W.S. Anderson’s return to the world of Resident Evil with the fifth upcoming film in the franchise, Re5ident Evil: Retribution, landed earlier this month and it looked pretty impressive. Even if you’re not a fan of the franchise, you’d have to admit that the effects are rather awesome.
We’ve now got the first teaser poster to share with you, via Collider, as well as an updated version of a piece of artwork we saw from the film just over a week ago.
“The wildly successful film franchise adaptation that has grossed nearly $700 million worldwide to the popular video game series, “Resident Evil,” returns in its highly anticipated fifth installment, “Re5ident Evil: Retribution” in state-of-the art 3D.
The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice (Milla Jovovich), awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by newfound allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.”
Retribution will see Milla Jovovich reprising her role as Alice, with a supporting cast that includes Sienna Guillory as Jill Valentine, Johann Urb as Leon Kennedy, Boris Kodjoe as Luther West, Bingbing Li as Ada Wong, and a surprise return from Michelle Rodriguez as Rain Ocampo, who starred (and seemingly died) in the first film. I’m pretty interested to see how Rodriguez will return. (Not to mention very much interested to see how she’ll return in Fast Six, but that’s a different story altogether.)
Written and directed by Anderson, the film (styled in the title both as Resident Evil: Retribution and Re5ident Evil: Retribution) will be with us in 3D on 14th September this year, so we’ve got eight and a half more months before it hits. The last piece of artwork was unlocked by the film’s Twitter page after fans tweeted about the film with the hash-tag #ResidentEvil, getting it to trend in the US, and judging by the #ResidentEvil on this new teaser poster, I’d say that we’re in for a marketing campaign fully involving fans. More as we get it. As usual with this poster and the new image, click to enlarge. The artwork beneath the poster looks, especially, undeniably awesome.
