9 Blatant Lies Filmmakers Told To Keep Their Movies Unspoiled
6. Everybody Said Resident Evil Extinction Would Be The End
The next Resident Evil movie will be the sixth and apparently final - instalment, which is a very healthy number for a series that claimed to be stopping at three movies. When the first Resident Evil came out writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson claimed it was intended as a trilogy from the beginning, and he repeated that claim constantly while the third movie was shooting. He was backed up by the film's director, the cast and the crew. While its not uncommon for people to claim something will be a trilogy only for it to continue on, but theres no way anyone read that script and thought it was definitely the last. If Extinction was intended to close the franchise it would have done a terrible job; it brings absolutely no resolution to anything. It ends with the fates of several main characters left ambiguous, nothing has really been resolved and the final shot is a clear setup for the next movie. Since then the filmmakers retroactively claimed Extinction was meant to end one story arc and be the launch pad for another one. That's an especially interesting claim since theres barely enough story to cover one movie, let alone six.
