That is according to Jeremy Bolt, who is Anderson's co-producer on Resident Evil: Afterlife. Visiting that film's set, the site ShockTillYouDrop.com says it spoke to Bolt, who "told us this morning that Paul W.S. Anderson is still circling video game adaptation Castlevania at Rogue Pictures and that they are waiting on a script."

"Bolt added that he and Anderson would like to adapt Konami's Metal Gear Solid for the big screen at Columbia Pictures," ShockTillYouDrop.com added.

You can check out Paul W.S. Anderson's filmography here but he ain't no Bergman. Please note that none of this confirms Anderson has anything to do with the Metal Gear project.

Paul W.S. Anderson Still Circling Castlevania [ShockTillYouDrop.com]

Here is the logo for the upcoming Resident Evil film, which is subtitled "Afterlife". Filmed in 3D, the movie is the fourth installment in the series and is shooting in Toronoto with Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Spencer Locke, Wentworth Miller, Shawn Roberts, Boris Kodjoe and Kim Coates.

Paul W.S. Anderson is writing and directing the picture.

The Resident Evil: Afterlife Logo [ShockTillYouDrop]

Website ShockTillYouDrop report that the Screen Gems and Constantin Film have officially announced that production on Resident Evil: Afterlife has kicked off in Toronto, Canada.

The film will be shot entirely in 3D and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Afterlife stars Milla Jovovich as Alice, and Ali Larter and Spencer Locke will reprise their roles as Claire Redfield and K-Mart from the previous films. Actor Wentworth Miller is joining the cast as Claire's brother, Chris Redfield. Shawn Roberts will play Wesker.

"Alice's battle with The Umbrella Corporation isn't finished," says director Anderson. "Last time we saw Alice, she let them know she was coming after them. It's time to settle the score." Dun-dun-dunnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

Resident Evil: Afterlife Officially Announced [ShockTillYouDrop.com] [Pic]

The director and Jovovich were wed at their Beverly Hills abode in an outdoor ceremony, attending by friends and family. This is Jovovich's third marriage and his first.

Anderson is best known for turning video games like Mortal Kombat and Dead or Alive into feature films. Jovovich is best known for being really pretty.

Milla Gets Married [The Sun]

Hollywood got the big screen game rights back in 2005 with Resident Evil helmer Paul W.S. Anderson attached to write and direct. Shooting was slated to start in Eastern Europe back in late 2006, but by the following summer production was still stalled.

Anderson handed off directing duties to Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard). Things continued to stall and filming was supposed to commence in spring 2008. Fast forward to earlier this summer when Saw franchise co-creator and director of Dead Silence and Death Sentence, James Wan, signed on to co-write and helm the flick.

"James is doing a pass on the script to put himself into it with the tricks and the traps, which he is really good at," says Anderson. "One of the things with Castlevania is it's not just about the creatures but the environment trying to get to you as well. I think he is a terrific choice because a key part of Castlevania is the intensity of being trapped within the confines of the castle, and he's shown with Saw that he excels with intensity in confined spaces."

According to Anderson, Wan is merely tweaking the original script and the project is currently in "pre-pre-production".

Paul W.S. Anderson Promises Vampire Whips and Horror Movie Traps In 'Castlevania' [MTV]

An insider has told ShockTillYouDrop.com that an internal studio memo is pegging Resident Evil: Afterlife for a theatrical release by September 17, 2010.

No word on whether star Milla Jovovich has officially signed on for this picture.

Resident Evil 4 Arriving in Late 2010? [ShockTillYouDrop via Latino Review]

I’m writing an adaptation of The Long Good Friday right now, set in present-day Miami. Then I will probably write Resident Evil 4.

While Anderson wrote and directed the first RE flick, he only penned the second and the third ones. Makes sense he'd be back for the fourth one.

Milla Jovovich and hubby’s baby hopes [Sunday Sun via Bloody Disgusting, Dtoid]

Exclusive: Spy Hunter Takes A Backseat [Latino Review]

Crystal Sky is currently involved in producing the Tekken movie, a film that we just had our first peek at. We can only imagine that the Pac-Man flick won't be targeting the over-12 demographic, but desperately hope for something live action and thoroughly awful.

Crystal Sky signs $200 million deal [Variety]

By John Gaudiosi

Paul W.S. Anderson is one of a number of Hollywood and gaming creatives that can be seen on Starz Entertainment's new videogame documentary, "Hollywood Goes Gaming," which is in heavy rotation across the movie network. This exclusive interview is from outtakes not seen on the show. Anderson, the man behind the original Mortal Kombat movie and all three Resident Evil films, talks about his process of bringing games to the big screen.

"What I've tried to do in all the adaptations that I've done is really immerse myself in the world, so I'm well aware of all of the different story lines and all of the back stories that exist," said Anderson. "Then I try and carve out an original story told within that universe. I think that's an important approach, because it allows you to tell a story that is a little unfamiliar to the gamers. There is nothing more boring than seeing a movie that is a straight adaptation of a videogame. A lot of hardcore gamers complain that videogame movies don't stick exactly to the games, but frankly that would not be an enjoyable experience because if you've already played the game you know exactly what's going to happen."

Anderson said that although he's usually played the games before he chooses them as an adaptation. That process can be slow.

"I'd spent a long time playing the Resident Evil games because I'm a slow game player," said Anderson. "I don't have magic fingers. I'm put to shame by a lot of young kids, but I'm diligent. I put in the hours. So I get to the end of all of the games but it can take a long time...it might take me a week to get through a game."

When it comes to choosing which games to bring to the big screen, Anderson, who has the option for a Driver movie and also produced the recent box office bomb, DOA, said he's looking for a good milieu.

"The thing about Mortal Kombat, for example is that it was heavily influenced by certain movies like Enter the Dragon, and therefore it was kind of an easy adaptation to turn the game back into a movie," explained Anderson. "Resident Evil was heavily influenced by the Romero zombie movies that I loved as a teenager. There was a whole six or seven years where there was just a new zombie movie every week it seemed. And no one had made one of those movies for 15 years. So when we came to adapting and making Resident Evil, we weren't just tapping into the audience for a particular videogame, I felt we were reinventing an entire genre of movies that just hadn't been done for a long time."

Anderson, who's been a gamer all of his life, said he believes games, as an art form, are still in their infancy.

"When I was playing Pong or Asteroids, that was the equivalent of the very first short silent movies like The Great Train Robbery," said Anderson. "They were primitive, but boy they were captivating. Games are now at the stage that movies were when Talkies were introduced. They have much more sophisticated stories because in that hour and a half you had a lot more dialogue. When you look at some of my favorite games from a while ago, the acting was bad and the dialogue was terrible. Games now are more sophisticated and quite often they use well-known actors to voice character. The dialogue is better the actual narrative is better, as well."

While the focus on "Hollywood Goes Gaming" is on that buzzword—convergence, Anderson believes games and movies will remain separate, but equal forms of entertainment.

"I love movies and I love videogames, but I don't think there is some kind of a hybrid art form between the two," said Anderson. "I think you go see a movie because you want to be told a great story. If you see a scary movie, you want to be scared, you want twists and turns, you don't want to know what's coming, you don't want to make decisions. Sometimes the joy of going to see a scary movie is a character does something that you just wouldn't do. And the same goes for gaming. I play a lot of World of Warcraft and although there are thousands of other people playing with me in this virtual world, I don't want to see them. I don't want to know there's a guy behind that dwarf. It throws off the illusion."

Anderson said that while on the surface there are many similarities between movies and games, they are kind of deceptive.

"There are animated sequences in games that look like movies, so there's a tendency for people who really aren't into games to think they are the same kind of thing," said Anderson. "But I think just the process of playing and interacting with a game make it necessarily different from the movies. I wouldn't know why you would want to combine the two."

Love him or hate him, Variety is reporting that Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson, has been confirmed to be co-writing and directing the upcoming Universal Studios backed Spy Hunter film. The film, which has experienced repeated set backs in the past, was originally set to star The Rock but it's not known whether he will be involved in this current iteration.

I really don't know how to feel about this. There seems to be quite a large margin of suck factor. But, what the hell do I know, I actually kinda liked the Resident Evil movie. Granted, it's in the same way I like Showgirls and Starship Troopers, but that's another story for another day... Flynn De Marco

Universal restarts 'Spy Hunter' [Variety]
[via Gamespot]

Pro wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was previously slated to appear as the movie version's titular spy and starred in the Midway game Spy Hunter: Nowhere To Run, a title originally planned to coincide with the theatrical release. It's unknown if Johnson, who really nailed his role in Doom as a guy who shoots stuff, is still attached to the project.

Anderson, mostly famous for the Resident Evil and Aliens vs. Predator flicks, is also hard at work ruining/remaking Death Race 2000. No word from Variety on whether these projects will interfere with his work on the Castlevania film.

We can always hope. Michael McWhertor

Universal restarts 'Spy Hunter' [Variety via Gamespot]

If this new development is true and the Rogue Pictures production is coming apart at the seams, Castlevania diehards can still look forward to the official animated flick. In fact, according to an update on the Castlevania: Dracula's Curse production blog, series mainstay Koji Igarashi is on board and "definitely involved" in a consulting capacity meaning the property is in good hands.

We haven't heard back from Konami or Rogue Pictures yet on the Anderson rumor, but we'll update if we get any further information. Thanks to Damian for the tip! Michael McWhertor

Exclusive: Anderson Off Castlevania! [Dread Central]

Earlier, we posted that British director Paul W.S. Anderson (Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil) gave the keynote speech at the Hollywood and Games Summit in Los Angeles. The real meat and potatoes is when the director recounts his Dickensian story about how he got into gaming.

As a nerdy young boy growing up in the north of England, I often contemplated the nerdy future ahead of me. Playing Dungeons & Dragons, the inevitable sexual frustrations afterward, and then playing more Dungeons & Dragons. In the 1980s, I took shelter from a rainstorm in an arcade in London. There, I saw a dozen boys gathered around what looked like a black monolith out of 2001. That game was Space Invaders. And on that rainy night, I played so long that I had to walk home in the rain because I spent my bus fare playing that game.

Anderson went on to work in a matchstick factory and a shoeshine boy, scrapping together enough quarters to sneak out and play a few rounds of Space Invaders every Friday night. He then talked about how he thinks games should be adapted and why some games shouldn't be. Big deal, now tell us about Milla!

More Here [Eurogamer]

Anderson, the director of the kinda-sorta-alright Resident Evil, the not-really-video-game-related Aliens Vs. Predator and the who-the-hell-knows Castlevania will speak at the Hollywood and Games Summit presented by the Game Developer's Conference and The Hollywood Reporter on June 27th. His subject? How to create commercially and critically successful films based off of video game IPs.

Okay, we'll give him a history of commercially successful films, but Anderson's video game oeuvre hardly strikes us as rubbing shoulders with Tarkovsky. Although we suppose we should be screaming thanks to that imaginary man who lives on a cloud that the Hollywood Reporter didn't nominate Uwe Boll for the speech.

Paul W.S. Anderson Keynotes Summit [1UP]

Anderson won't actually be directing this time around, though. Highlander director Russell Mulcahy will be directing the third film. Don't bother getting excited — while it is true that Mulcahy directed the pretty great Highlander Part 1, he wasted all future geek cred by directing the stinky, horrible Highlander Part II. Otherwise known as "They were aliens all along..."

I hate to admit it, but I kind of like Anderson's throwaway sci-fi/horror films. AVP was terrible, but Soldier and Event Horizon are guilty pleasures, and the first Resident Evil film was a lot better than it had any right to be. Between Mulcahy and Anderson, maybe this third one will be watchable.

Jill Valentine Returns [1UP]