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Plus, Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez steal the show at the Retribution panel.
Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez kicked ass at the Resident Evil: Retribution panel at Comic-Con this weekend – which, come to think of it, is usually how it goes in the RE movies too. Wouldn’t have it any other way.
Joining the two ladies in Hall H were writer-director Paul W. S. Anderson and cast members Oded Fehr, Boris Kodjoe and Mika Nakashima, all present to talk about the fifth film in the series -- which, from the sound of things, could also be the beginning of the end for Alice and her pals.
Anderson said that he's starting to contemplate bringing the saga of Jovovich's Alice to a close… though it appears that won't happen until Resident Evil 6 at the earliest. As for Retribution, the story will span from Tokyo to New York to Washington to Moscow, with Alice encountering various friends and enemies from her past along the way, not the least of whom is Rodriguez's Rain Ocampo -- who was killed off all the way back in the first film! How did she manage to survive/get resurrected?
A clue may have been revealed in the exclusive 3D fight scene clip that was played for the Comic-Con crowd. It drops all four of the film's babes in a no-holds-barred encounter -- Alice, Rain, Sienna Guillory's Jill Valentine and Bingbing Li's Ada Wong. Set in an icy landscape, it features the usual amount of slow-mo kick-assery, but the most interesting aspect of it all came when Rodriguez injected herself in the neck with some kind of drug. She then takes a bunch of bullets courtesy of Alice, only to heal almost instantaneously and eject the bullet residue from her body, dropping them out of her fingers. Don't Rain on her parade! Ahem.
Anderson wooed the crowd with talk about how they tried to make the film as big as possible in terms of scale -- but also as small as possible with character, in particular with Alice, who it seems might have had a daughter and a husband in a past life. Or an illusory life, at least? With the increased scale, he said, there's increased jeopardy for the characters too.
But Jovovich and Rodriguez were the stars of this panel, seemingly having as much (or more) fun as the thousands of fans in the audience. And no creepy Q&A question from the crowd could catch these two off guard, not even the one from some character who asked if Rodriguez would sleep with him. Without missing a beat, the actress launched into a story about how the guy reminded her of some weirdo who she found hanging out in her backyard years ago. She had to call the cops on the guy because he was doing "horrible things" to himself. "You look just like him and it's freaking me out," she laughed, as the questioner slinked off to nurse his wounds.
Another fan asked how much the ladies can bench press. Jovovich thought he was talking about planking, which was cute. And Rodriguez said she sucks at working out and just "gyrates a lot" instead. As well she should.
Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez kicked ass at the Resident Evil: Retribution panel at Comic-Con this weekend – which, come to think of it, is usually how it goes in the RE movies too. Wouldn’t have it any other way.
Joining the two ladies in Hall H were writer-director Paul W. S. Anderson and cast members Oded Fehr, Boris Kodjoe and Mika Nakashima, all present to talk about the fifth film in the series -- which, from the sound of things, could also be the beginning of the end for Alice and her pals.
Anderson said that he's starting to contemplate bringing the saga of Jovovich's Alice to a close… though it appears that won't happen until Resident Evil 6 at the earliest. As for Retribution, the story will span from Tokyo to New York to Washington to Moscow, with Alice encountering various friends and enemies from her past along the way, not the least of whom is Rodriguez's Rain Ocampo -- who was killed off all the way back in the first film! How did she manage to survive/get resurrected?
A clue may have been revealed in the exclusive 3D fight scene clip that was played for the Comic-Con crowd. It drops all four of the film's babes in a no-holds-barred encounter -- Alice, Rain, Sienna Guillory's Jill Valentine and Bingbing Li's Ada Wong. Set in an icy landscape, it features the usual amount of slow-mo kick-assery, but the most interesting aspect of it all came when Rodriguez injected herself in the neck with some kind of drug. She then takes a bunch of bullets courtesy of Alice, only to heal almost instantaneously and eject the bullet residue from her body, dropping them out of her fingers. Don't Rain on her parade! Ahem.
Anderson wooed the crowd with talk about how they tried to make the film as big as possible in terms of scale -- but also as small as possible with character, in particular with Alice, who it seems might have had a daughter and a husband in a past life. Or an illusory life, at least? With the increased scale, he said, there's increased jeopardy for the characters too.
But Jovovich and Rodriguez were the stars of this panel, seemingly having as much (or more) fun as the thousands of fans in the audience. And no creepy Q&A question from the crowd could catch these two off guard, not even the one from some character who asked if Rodriguez would sleep with him. Without missing a beat, the actress launched into a story about how the guy reminded her of some weirdo who she found hanging out in her backyard years ago. She had to call the cops on the guy because he was doing "horrible things" to himself. "You look just like him and it's freaking me out," she laughed, as the questioner slinked off to nurse his wounds.
Another fan asked how much the ladies can bench press. Jovovich thought he was talking about planking, which was cute. And Rodriguez said she sucks at working out and just "gyrates a lot" instead. As well she should.
