Boris Kodjoe to Star in Resident Evil: Afterlife

Boris Kodjoe, who stars in the upcoming Surrogates and was previously seen in Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion , has joined Milla Jovovich in Screen Gems' Resident Evil: Afterlife . He revealed the casting on his Twitter account:

In Toronto meeting with the director of my new movie 'Resident Evil: Afterlife' Very exciting!!! Lots of stunts, shooting guns, monsters...

That director is Paul W.S. Anderson (who is married to Jovovich). Anderson directed the first film in the franchise and wrote and produced the other two.

Resident Evil: Afterlife is scheduled to hit theaters on August 27, 2010.