Horror Resident Evil Reboot

[KaijuDude1992]

Thank god they are actually centering this on characters from the game and I really like the cast, especially seeing Tom Hopper and Kaya Scodelario in this who are immensely talented IMO. I can see either Robbie Amell or Tom Hopper pulling off Chris Redfield, but I do find it more interesting that they have casted him as Wesker. Neal Mcdonough is a good fit for Berkin as well, but I'm not sure about the dude playing Leon.

All of that being said I'm still going into this with super low expectations until I see a trailer, because they still haven't earned my trust just yet. Given the people involved its hard imagining this will be that much different from the past movies, but hopefully they can prove us wrong.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Well at least they're bringing in the actual characters from the games.

I'm not a super fan, just more of a casual witness to these games but they're a lot of fun and can indeed make great movies. But if these are the same producers from the movies that doesn't bode so well. Hopefully that was more of a Anderson thing.

As for the original six movies, I watched the first for the first time last week. Horrible. But kind of fun in a trashy way. I'm not gonna lie, I'd binge watch the next five. I can get into these in a really stupid way.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Elodie Yung would make a great Ada Wong.

 

[Still Wynning]

I’m in “wait and see” mode for this one. I’m not going to completely write it off it off before it actually comes out. If it does end up sucking, I’ll say so.

I do like the cast, though. I can totally see a lot of these actors embodying their respective roles, especially Amell. That’s pretty inspired casting.

 

[Fincher]

I'm very happy with the casting of Kaya as Claire, and they're bringing it back to Raccoon City and what happened in those first games, so I'm excited about this. It's kind of funny that it's an "origin story" because the movies were post-apocalyptic, but whatever.

 

[Gothamsknight]

It's definitely really nice to see them staying faithful this time. The casting choices are fantastic and I have confidence this could be special.

 

[TheVileOne]

It's definitely really nice to see them staying faithful this time. The casting choices are fantastic and I have confidence this could be special.

I will be the judge of how faithful that turns out, especially when we haven't seen any footage.

 

[Erik20]

This sounds pretty good (except for the same producers part) because it's basically what I wanted from the start. I'm not sure why Leon is in it already though, seems like you would save him for part 2. (Unless it's a small role)

I hope they don't end up overcorrecting their previous mistakes and cram too much of the games in one movie

 

[TheVileOne]

Resident Evil: The Book

There was a Japan only prequel book that actually would be a good setup for a movie OR an episodic TV series using the classic characters. The only thing is that it slow burns all the monsters and Umbrella in.

Score PN actually did an English translation of the book and did like a dramatic reading of it with music and sound effects. It's actually pretty good. I think you could make this like your first half of a season and then the mansion the second half:



Here's the problem with Resident Evil. The story kind of gets muddled after Code Veronica. RE4 is almost like a soft restart for the story, and Umbrella has next to nothing to do with it. And then the franchise moves into more of an action-adventure format for the next few games. A lot of the major stuff with Umbrella happens offscreen. Even Wesker breaks off from Umbrella and then he becomes his own villain and is defeated in RE5.

So how do you fix that and make it a more cohesive story?

 

[Marvolo]

This is funny:

At the very least I'll watch this for Kaya and Hannah.

 

[Captain Tired]

I'd have been satisfied with them just adapting the S.D. Perry novels.

 

[Fincher]

Here's the problem with Resident Evil. The story kind of gets muddled after Code Veronica. RE4 is almost like a soft restart for the story, and Umbrella has next to nothing to do with it. And then the franchise moves into more of an action-adventure format for the next few games. A lot of the major stuff with Umbrella happens offscreen. Even Wesker breaks off from Umbrella and then he becomes his own villain and is defeated in RE5.

So how do you fix that and make it a more cohesive story?

The way Hollywood Reporter makes it sound, this is a prequel for the film series. They could be mistaken or not explaining it well, but I wouldn't count on a retelling of the whole series.

 

[TheVileOne]

The way Hollywood Reporter makes it sound, this is a prequel for the film series. They could be mistaken or not explaining it well, but I wouldn't count on a retelling of the whole series.

It's possible I suppose. The THR article is sort of vague and contradicting. It also says this:

Constantin has made six Evil movies, which have grossed over $1.2 billion at the global box office. Milla Jovovich starred in each, with the last one being 2016’s Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. The new project reboots the franchise by going to the place that first unleashed a zombie apocalypse, thanks to a bioweapon virus developed by a corporation.

The story is set on in a fateful night in Raccoon City in 1998; the fictional Midwestern town is known in Evil lore as the center of a virus outbreak that destroys it and forever changes the country.

If they try to connect this to the previous films I will be even less interested.

 

[Sithborg]

It's definitely really nice to see them staying faithful this time. The casting choices are fantastic and I have confidence this could be special.

A little premature there...

 

[Iceman]

If they try to connect this to the previous films I will be even less interested.

Yeah, I want this to be a separate entity to those.

 

[Gothamsknight]

A little premature there...

Hey at least they're actually casting people from the game this time. And the director seems like a fan too (hopefully).

Wasn't george romero set to direct one of these in the 90s and the studio shot it down for being too faithful?

 

[Fincher]

It's possible I suppose. The THR article is sort of vague and contradicting. It also says this:

If they try to connect this to the previous films I will be even less interested.

I will say that if this is meant as a prequel, it doesn't make sense that Jill is mixed race now. But then again, the The Dark Tower movie was supposed to be a sequel, but Roland was black, so it could be it's not a prequel or it could be they're disregarding continuity.

 

[TheVileOne]

Hey at least they're actually casting people from the game this time. And the director seems like a fan too (hopefully).

Wasn't george romero set to direct one of these in the 90s and the studio shot it down for being too faithful?

Romero's script wasn't that faithful. Like Chris Redfield is a farmboy who is dating Jill, who doesn't know that Jill is a secret agent, and is all angry and betrayed when he finds out.

 

[Iceman]

Resident Evil: The Book

There was a Japan only prequel book that actually would be a good setup for a movie OR an episodic TV series using the classic characters. The only thing is that it slow burns all the monsters and Umbrella in.

Score PN actually did an English translation of the book and did like a dramatic reading of it with music and sound effects. It's actually pretty good. I think you could make this like your first half of a season and then the mansion the second half:



Here's the problem with Resident Evil. The story kind of gets muddled after Code Veronica. RE4 is almost like a soft restart for the story, and Umbrella has next to nothing to do with it. And then the franchise moves into more of an action-adventure format for the next few games. A lot of the major stuff with Umbrella happens offscreen. Even Wesker breaks off from Umbrella and then he becomes his own villain and is defeated in RE5.

So how do you fix that and make it a more cohesive story?

Maybe they could just take what works from the sum of those films and books and leave out what doesn't.

 

[Gothamsknight]

Romero's script wasn't that faithful. Like Chris Redfield is a farmboy who is dating Jill, who doesn't know that Jill is a secret agent, and is all angry and betrayed when he finds out.

Ah okay. I wasnt entirely sure tbh. Probably would have been more enjoyable than the main series though regardless. Maybe just the romero fan in me though.

Still love that badass Resident Evil 2 commercial he directed.

 

[Iceman]

Romero's script wasn't that faithful. Like Chris Redfield is a farmboy who is dating Jill, who doesn't know that Jill is a secret agent, and is all angry and betrayed when he finds out.

Hmm, that sounds like quite an unnecessary change for the worse.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Yeah, but the zombie action would’ve been off the charts. And scary! Hope this at least gets that part right.

 

[TheVileOne]

Hmm, that sounds like quite an unnecessary change for the worse.

I will credit Romero that he basically tried to adapt the first game and included a lot of the original game's monsters in it, but it was a bit of a clunky script. Like when I realized what they'd done with Chris and Jill, I was like...WTF is this ****?

Now, was the script better than what we ultimately ended up with and all the Mary Sue Alice BS? Fake Wesker, Fake Umbrella, cause the apocalypse, nonsensical idiocy? Yes. But on the other hand, I can see why it didn't pan out either. It probably would've been too expensive to make as well.

Having Chris and Jill be lovers, Chris is a civilian rancher, and has no idea Jill is a secret agent is f'n stupid, though. No disrespect Romero. It was stupid.

This is the part of adaptations I don't like. Hotshot Hollywood writers and filmmakers always have to "improve" something by only making it worse.

Case in point, Kenneth Branagh in Artemis Fowl. Branagh refused to start out with Artemis Fowl as a criminal mastermind who over time gradually becomes less amoral and more heroic. He basically made him kid Bruce Wayne or kid James Bond, and it sucked.

 

[Fincher]

That description of the Romero script makes me glad the movie had original characters instead, honestly. What's the use of having Chris and Jill if they're simply not Chris and Jill?

 

[Gothamsknight]

Yeah, but the zombie action would’ve been off the charts. And scary! Hope this at least gets that part right.

Can you imagine if Tom Savini had done the fx too? Though I think at that point he was already done and KnB was doing romero's stuff.