The last update we had on the film was when Li Bingbing, who played the popular Ada Wong, was confirmed to return, but we haven't heard anything on when production could begin. It was expected to open in September 2014 and that obviously never happened as the script wasn't ready, and according to Anderson the first draft is still being written with it "absolutely" as the concluding chapter. So while a start date and release date may be far off, Anderson is planning for the film to be in 3D....
Anderson: “I firmly believe that you have to start thinking about the 3D even in the writing process. You cannot make a great 3D movie by just—it’s not some special sauce that you can sprinkle on. You make the dish and then you make hot sauce on top—it doesn’t work well like that. Yes, you can do a last minute conversion. You can not shoot the movie thinking about 3D and do a last minute conversion and it can be a 3D movie, it’s just not gonna be a great 3D movie. I approach my films right from the inception, I kind of write action scenes and pick out locations that I think and know—because I’ve done so much of it—will translate very well into 3D. Then when we build the sets, we build sets that I know will shoot well in 3D. It’s really, even from this point, 3D is something I’m definitely thinking about.”
Resident Evil has proven a remarkably consistent money maker for Screen Gems over the years, earning over $900M through five films on a combined budget less than $250M. You can bet they'll be investing in whatever project Anderson undertakes next. Whether that turns out to be his rumored adaptation of another Capcom video game, Monster Hunter, remains to be seen.
