James Wan No Longer Producing Resident Evil Reboot

December 17, 2018

James Wan’s (The Conjuring, Aquaman, Insidious) Atomic Monster is no longer producing the Resident Evil reboot, Bloody Disgusting has confirmed.

Wan told the outlet: “They announce that I’m attached to a lot of stuff and a lot of them are not necessarily real. It’s kind of annoying when things come and go, or things never came in the first place. I hate it when my projects get announced. It makes it seem like I’m attached to a lot of things when in fact I’m not necessarily doing so many things. A lot of my stuff just get announced and I don’t want them to be announced but people love to announce them.”

Wan is still attached to Train of Busan, as well as the adaptation of Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers. His upcoming projects also include Aquaman, releasing in theaters on December 21, The Curse of La Llorona, the TV series Swamp Thing, and the continuation of The Conjuring universe with the next Annabelle installment and The Conjuring 3.

The last installment of the first series of Resident Evil movies, helmed by Paul W.S. Anderson and starring his wife Milla Jovovich, earned $26.8 million domestically. Internationally, however, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter grossed an impressive $285.4 million, with $160 million of that coming from China. The $40 million-budgeted sixth film, distributed by Sony‘s Screen Gems, has earned $312.2 million worldwide.

Based on Capcom’s hugely popular video games, the Resident Evil movies have earned $1.2 billion worldwide to date, making it the highest-grossing film series to be based on a video game.