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Deron GenerallyResident Evil series director Paul W.S. Anderson returns to the world of both video game movies and zombies with the announcement that he will write and direct the big screen adaptation of the Sega video game House of the Dead.
Anderson will produce the film alongside Jeremy Bolt, Toru Nakahara from Sega and Story Kitchen’s Dmitri M. Johnson, Mike Goldberg and Dan Jevons. Anderson’s last franchise film was the movie adaptation of Capcom’s Monster Hunter.
House of the Dead debuted in arcades in 1996 as a rail shooter that took players, using a light gun, through a series of adventures as agents fighting off growing hordes of zombies and monsters. In an interview with Deadline, Anderson said I was a big player of video games in arcades, which is how I happened upon Mortal Kombat. And pretty much at the same time, I was also playing a lot of House of the Dead. It’s a title I’ve always loved. The IP has grown in strength, and now it’s really cross-generational. I was one of the original players, but now I have teenage kids who also play. That is the real attraction for me, that you’ve got a cross-generational piece of IP.”
This isn’t the first time House of the Dead has been adapted, the game was originally adapted to the screen in 2003 directed by Uwe Boll. Anderson’s version will reportedly be based on House of the Dead 3 and focus on a woman attempting to rescue her father and the son of the man responsible for the zombie outbreak.
No stars have been attached to the film so far, but Anderson has a long history of working with his wife Milla Jovovich in the Resident Evil films, The Three Musketeers and Monster Hunter.
