Comic-Con pass holders got a chance to check out some footage from Resident Evil: Degeneration, a CG-animated feature film coming from CAPCOM and Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan Co. The horror pic will make its theatrical debut this fall in Japan and will come to DVD, Blu-ray and PSP in North America later this year.
Based on the popular CAPCOM video-game series and the live-action film franchise, Resident Evil: Degeneration takes place seven years after the government destroyed Raccoon City in an attempt to wipe out the deadly zombie virus. The horror begins again when a zombie is unleashed in a U.S. airport that soon becomes filled with the undead and trapped survivors struggling to live through the nightmare.
CAPCOM hosted a sneak preview of the movie during a panel and press conference at the San Diego Comic-Con Int’l on Friday. Producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi (associate producer of Resident Evil: Apocalypse and video game producer of Resident Evil 4 and Devil May Cry 4) and director Makoto Kamiya (special effects director of L: Change the World, Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack) presented the worldwide debut of the film’s revealing two-minute theatrical trailer and answered questions about the property’s first animated chapter.
