Interview with Paul W.S. Anderson by Adam Chitwood of Collider courtesy of Sony Pictures Releasing International (Malaysia).
Q: How similar would "Resident Evil: Retribution" the movie, be with the video game? Anderson: There's a great action sequence which we've been inspired by from the fifth game, which is where the characters are driving in a Hummer through the desert and they're being chased by zombies shooting machine guns on motorbikes. We've taken that and we've kind of run with it. We're not gonna use a Hummer this time we're gonna use a Rolls Royce Phantom, cause no one's ever done a car chase with a Rolls Royce Phantom before. And I've discovered why, because it's really, really expensive.
Q: Which characters from the game did you decide to 'bring to life' in the upcoming movie? Anderson: [The new characters] is something that's kind of come out of Mila [Jovovich] and I talking to fans, feeling the characters that people wanted to come in. [We chose] three of those that seem to be the fan-favorites that we'd never touched on.
Q: Who are the three characters? Anderson: Leon Kennedy, Ada Wong, and Barry Burton. We really went out of our way to get people who looked as much like their characters as possible from the game. This actor Johann Urb, who I'm very excited to be working with, not only is he a really good actor but he looks like Leon Kennedy. I mean you put photographs of them side-by-side, it's almost like he was manufactured by Capcom.