Although the most recent Resident Evil film, Extinction, finished with a cliffhanger in which hundreds of clones of Milla Jovovich's character Alice headed off for the Umbrella Corporation's headquarters in Japan, director Paul W.S. Anderson has indicated that there was no cast iron guarantee of a sequel.

Anderson told MTV News: “I’m just starting to talk to Sony about it. I don’t even know if anything will come of it, but there’s a possibility it might happen.” At present, he has yet to devise a storyline to justify a fourth film.

“I love the Resident Evil franchise and we always try to make the best possible movie we can. If we could find a good Resident Evil 4 to make, then we would do it,” he told MTV. “But I wouldn’t just do it for the sake of it, that’s for sure.”