James Wan Is No Longer Producing the RESIDENT EVIL Reboot
One of the reasons why I was looking forward to the upcoming Resident Evil reboot was because of James Wan’s involvement. Well, the filmmaker is no longer a producer on the project. He shared the news himself during an interview with Bloody-Disgusting in which he said:
“I’m not doing that anymore. That has been dropped.”
As it turns out, he was never really attached in the first place, and he’s frustrated that his involvement with the project was announced prematurely. He explained:
“They announce that I’m attached to a lot of stuff and a lot of them are not necessarily real. It’s kind of annoying when things come and go, or things never came in the first place. I hate it when my projects get announced. It makes it seem like I’m attached to a lot of things when in fact I’m not necessarily doing so many things. A lot of my stuff just get announced and I don’t want them to be announced but people love to announce them.”
I can understand his frustration, but I’m still bummed out that he won’t be a part of the team rebooting Resident Evil. His involvement would have added a lot to the project.
47 Meters Down director Johannes Roberts is set to helm the reboot, but there are no details on how the reboot will be handled. As I’ve said before, I’d actually like to see an adaptation of Resident Evil: Biohazard. That just had such a great a creepy-ass setting!
Wan did confirm that he still is attached to the remake of Train to Busan, and in regard to that project, he said:
“Train to Busan, because it’s such a beloved property, it’s important if I don’t feel we can do it right and do it justice, it’s not something I want to do.”
He is also still attached to the big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers, which Wan says being involved with is “a fucking honor. Geez, Stephen King, how can you not be honored by that and to have Stephen’s blessing on that”
Wan’s most recent film is Aquaman, and that movie comes out on Friday, December 21st.