The Horror Geek presents: More Resident Evil: Afterlife info

Boris Kodjoe (who told us all he was in Resident Evil: Afterlife via his Twitter feed a few days ago) is apparently not only an actor, but also a PR guy. Whenever news breaks about the latest movie in the series, it seems like Kodjoe's the guy telling us about it. He's a veritable renaissance man…

Kodjoe had a chat with Wilson Morales over at Black Film recently and he not only informed us of more casting news (Ali Larter is back, Prison Break's Wentworth Miller has been cast), but he also gave us our first real plot synopsis for the fourth film in the franchise. Here it is:

"I play the leader of the survivors in LA. Milla Jovovich's character, Alice, is roaming the world looking for survivors and she's wound up in LA, which has been burning for three years. She comes across an LA jail surrounded be these half-dead [zombies]. Anyway, she comes across the jail and there's a couple of survivors and she lands on top of the roof and partners up with me to fight the guys that are coming after them. We're trying to get all of the survivors out of the jail to safety. We're starting next week, actually."

Sounds good so far, although for some reason zombie films set in prisons rarely seem to work out. There's an inherent coolness to the concept of inmates fighting the undead, but up until now something always gets lost in the transition from idea to finished film. Maybe Afterlife can take the mantle as the definitive zombies in a prison flick. I guess we'll all find out on September 27th of next year when the film invades theaters nationwide.

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