Filmmaker Johannes Roberts and actor Tom Hopper unpack that big post-credits scene reveal.
Warning: This article contains spoilers forResident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.
And he did technically die.
Tom Hopper stars as Albert Wesker in ‘Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.'.Shane Mahood/Screen Gems
But the end-credits scene shows Wesker waking up inside a body bag.
He then tumbles off his slab and crawls on the floor, trying to regain his senses.
But who is she?
Avan Jogia as Leon Kennedy and Kaya Scodelario as Claire Redfield in ‘Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City’.Shane Mahood
“I would like to explore the other games.
He’s also not counting outResident Evil 3.
Whatever the case, Hopper’s Wesker and Gao’s Wong would be key to a sequel treatment.
“She’s a tricky one in terms of trying to ground the movies,” the filmmaker says.
“It is a heightened world.
There’s something about Ada Wong with her trench coat and red dress that is so off the scale.
But I think she’d be a lot of fun.”
But he didn’t want it to feel like “cosplay.”
“I was like, ‘That doesn’t feel right to me.
It doesn’t feel like part of this world.’
It just felt a little fake.”
Hopper really “gave it” in the performance, Roberts says.
“He really did goclunkoff the slab.”
Says Hopper, “I think something happened with the mat I was supposed to land on.
It wasn’t there or something.
when I landed.”
Putting on the sunglasses as Wesker was a special moment for the actor.
“I felt it really completed Wesker’s origin story,” Hopper says.
“[It gave] a little taste of what I look like with them on.”
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon Cityis currently playing in theaters.
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