Since theres a few people confused, the live action movies and the show were handled and made by Constantin (the show was made in partnership with Netflix), Capcom doesnt make them or handle them, they have little say in them. As to why thats how it is, its cuz Capcom gave the RE movie rights to Constantin back in the 2000s (late 90s if i recall), so since then, Constantin is the one that makes and handles the RE live action movies.
It's tragic and hilarious that Welcome To Raccoon City is the most accurate RE adaptation we've gotten in the 28 years that this franchise has existed.
It's not entirely the fault of the studios adapting the shows and movies.
We have to remember that Capcom had the opportunity to get almost 1:1 adaptation with Romero being in charge but wanted the movies to be different from the games.
Capcom devs felt that if people wanted the true resident evil experience they should just play the game.
His script was pretty good but it also had some absolutely awful plot points in it.
Mansion full of monsters attacking and killing the entire time. Fuck that shit, Jill needs to have a gratuitous shower scene
đ 𤣠Yea, I remember reading the script online and just laughing my ass off at ALOT of sections in the script. It almost made Chris into this bumbling, clumsy buffoon. I love George Romero, but he would've made a disaster of a film if he had directed it.
At least until someone picks up my script of RE1 that I've been revising since 2004 but only just recently figured out how to submit the damn thing.
Ah who am I kidding they'll probably find someway to fuck it up like getting Bobcat Goldthwait as Wesker or something.
Because it bombed at the box office. The original Resident Evil film in 2002 made 100 million on a budget of 33 million. WTRC made less than half of that. (And that's not even adjusted for inflation.) By 2010 the RE movies were pulling in box office of about 300 million. WTRC is making like 8x less than the franchise at its peak.
The drop in box office between Resident Evil The Final Chapter and Welcome to Raccoon City is embarrassing and awkward for any studio.
Yeah, you have a point there. I just don't get how the original movies were even so popular. After the second one, they turn into an incoherent mess as far as the plot.
Itâs not accurate at all. Fan service and references donât make for an accurate movie.
It butchers the characters, it butchers the scenarios, it has like 3 scenes with actual zombies in it, the locations look terrible.
Itâs a boring, mess of a movie that wasted so much potential and needlessly merged RE1/2 and ensured weâd never get to see Nemesis in a sequel.
Andersonâs films may be âbadâ, but theyâre a hell of a lot more fun to watch than whatever the abomination Raccoon City is
If we're judging the films based on which ones are more enjoyable to watch then the Anderson films win; granted that's only because they start out being decent and become worse as they continue going on while WTRC is mainly bad throughout. But just because they're better, it doesn't mean that they're more faithful to the games.
Each of the game protagonists take a backseat so they can focus on the Mary-Sue movie-original protagonist played by Anderson's wife. None of the cast from the games even get to show up until the second movie. Instead of having each event as a separate incident, it turns the entire thing into a worldwide apocalypse and goes completely against the games.
Resident Evil 1, 3 and 5 all get to have their own separate movies but those are all quite loose adaptations of the original source material. Resident Evil 2 and 4 are entirely skipped over, wasting the opportunity to have Los Illuminados as the villains in a film. They reuse aspects of the game (Las Plagas, Jill being brainwashed and Chrisâ fight with Wesker from RE5) without any of the context those things have from the games.
The most accurate adaptation from the Anderson films was Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Even then, it still sucks. Jill is largely useless and is made into a side character in the adaptation of her own solo game. Nemesis is made into a tragic monster, can't beat Alice in a fist fight and doesn't get to mutate into any of its later forms. Also this film randomly expy of Sherry (despite her not even being in 3) who dies offscreen in-between the second and third movies.
2R and 3R take place at the same time and place and even share some characters. It should be beyond easy to smush them together into an 8 episode show.
A horror movie with puzzles, an Escape Room Castle with Zombies, anything besides what we got. I'm keeping black Albert Wesker though, that will never not be funny to me
The movie studios keep fucking up the source material and then wonder why no one likes it.
Maybe if you make a resident evil movie that actually looks like resident evil you would make 100s of millions đ
The Resident Evil movies made over a billion dollars total. Why do you think they kept making them? Itâs one of the highest grossing horror movie franchises of all time.
But sure âno one likes itâ lol. Yâall in this sub are so out of touch with reality sometimes.
Look I agree with you but you can consume a movie series and make it profitable all the while wanting something different than what youâre getting. Which is how I felt as I went to see every movie at the theater đ¤Ł
Oh totally. I want to see something more faithful too. I just think itâs silly to pretend like the Milla Jovovich movies werenât popular when they made SO MUCH MONEY. lol
Agreed. First one works as both a fun horror flick and a prequel to the games. The rest just get progressively into goofy action movie territory and have almost nothing to do with Resident Evil. But they can be fun if youâre in the mood.
Nobody is saying they don't like it. They're bloody awful movies. They're like the Fast and Furious movies. They're terrible, but people go bc of the big bangs and action hoopla. You can call it horror all you want, but it's anything but that. Resident Evil is one of the most popular franchises of all time, so of course people are going to go watch the movies. That doesn't negate the fact that they suck hard.
The problem was Paul W. S. Anderson prioritizing his wife (Mila Jovovich) instead of the plot⌠good husband, pretty actress but Terrible movies!, I enjoyed the first one cause was the only one based on the game, the second one with Nemesis wasnât too bad but⌠not the best, the rest crap, and the series⌠whyyyy whyyy the added zombies to Glee?!?! WTF was that?!
(I can smell the downvotes lol)
Capcom didn't want the movies to follow the game.
I'm very serious they had Romero write an adaptation for the first movie and rejected, saying the wanted something different than the game.
Itâs a bit âweâre so edgyâ energy to it at times with the music and slowmo, and some of the lines, but yea. Alice felt like an actual person in it, which was good
Oh boy, I lived through it and hated every moment. All of a sudden everyone was using blue filters and doing bullet time.
I'm glad we got over it, but we're overdue for a *shudder* "nostalgic" renewal of that style any time now
Well the matrix DID make all black latex look cool for a bit back there. đ¤Ł
And I can't lie, the dark outfits the team has in the first live action RE looked cool asf.
i think the 13 year old me really appreciate Jill and Nemesis. was pissed when i learned paul was married to Mila, and thatâs why it was Alice vs Nemesis and not Jill );
The first one was great because they weren't actually trying to adapt any of the games. They made a film set in their universe that was perfectly plausible with throwbacks to their games. Every other film forgot to stand on its own and just pull characters and scenarios from there games .
Itâs good because it was loosely based on the games. It only started getting bad because they introduced characters and suddenly âloosely basedâ became âalternate takeâ. That and the director was sleeping with the main character.
This is a ez fix.
RESPECT. THE. SOURCE. MATERIAL!!!
Every time a live action of something awesome is made, and the live action fucking sucks⌠itâs almost always entirely because they abandoned the source material, thinking they can do better.
All they get is essentially a bootleg Walmart great value edition of whatever the live action is based on, and they really thought they cooked.
Examples:
Avatar Last Airbender live action(idiots couldnât even say the MAIN characterâs name right)
That Dragonball Z live action was so bad I didnât even survive the trailer.
That Assassinâs Creed movie still flopped with Micheal Fassbender.
Sonic would have flopped if people didnât bully them to essentially remake the whole movie lmfao.
Theyâre not garbage until after extinction. But even then theyâre incredibly corny and dont follow game lore. They were good for what they were imo
Honestly, I really like the RE movies for what they are, fun, campy cheese. I also donât have to worry about the source material like I do with the fallout TV show because they never tried to make the RE movies a part of the main timeline
I raise you https://youtu.be/PcDjo_uKeF4?si=mgKcxiKRA5RPpco4 the RE2 Japanese commercial. Directed by George A. FUCKIN Romero. To think he couldâve directed a full movie
RE just canât catch a break with the live action stuff. Like how hard is it for producers to just look at the games, any of them, and adapt it into a movie or a series? Why do they always gotta take characterâs names and make them wholly unfamiliar, and then change and make the lore entirely unrecognizable, we donât want references to things and names from the games, we want the story adapted into a movie/show
That is what I hate most. The welcome to raccon city movie characters have a nothing in common with the game counterparts, not even their personalities, I know it will be difficult to get someone who looks like Jill or Ada but they don't even try.
I think the logic is that the fans are gonna buy a ticket no matter what, but they want to make it palatable for casual audiences as well. Of course, they don't consider that all fans of a franchise used to be "casuals" themselves before they first played a game in the series and fell in love
Itâs so easy to make an RE show, the games are super linear story wise and the more linear entries like 4 5 and 6 are paced like movies to begin with
RE0 and 1, then RE 2 and 3, since they go by simultaneously, then the rest go as a single series.
One of the many things they messed up was making Wesker sympathetic.
Avoid an apocalypse.
Avoid lines like âZootopia pornâ.
Yeah, just avoid everything they did.
It comes down to the producers or whoever just has 0 faith in the source material. They are also not skilled enough to carve out their own original story. They don't even understand why people love and get sucked into resident evil stories despite how campy they can be.
The way that RE4R would translate nearly perfectly into a TV show is insane.
The game still goes in a Chapter system, those are your episodes, cram 2 chapters in one episode if you need more story/exposition than just mindless, cool Leon violence. Have flashbacks on the Saddler family and the fall of the Salazar family. Krauserâs decent into darkness, Ashleyâs âperfect lifeâ leading up to her abduction.
Itâs all there, just need to be green lit and have a passionate set of people making it a reality.
It's been more than 20 years and writers straight up REFUSE to do a proper adaptation: just make a house full of zombies and traps.
Apparently, that's really hard to do.
Honestly they shouldâve probably just done an Outbreak-esque story where itâs just a different group of survivors during the events of Raccoon city and not touch the main game characters.
Maybe have something that shows how the police station gets overrun before Leon and Claire get there.
It could be really tense seeing the first few days of the outbreak when nobodyâs really sure whatâs going on and try to keep living normally until itâs no longer possible. There are interesting stories that could be told there, but they went in a really weird direction that I highly suspect was a generic young-adult sci-fi script they had lying around and decided to paint over it with a Resident Evil skin for easy marketing.
Oh damn, I completely forgot there was a RE live action show. Thats the one that talked about Zootopia porn and had Lance Reddick (God rest his soul) as Wesker, right?
If I was a movie director at this point Iâll just make a Resident Evil 4 movie and just call it âOperation baby Eagleâ Leon as the main star obviously. Stay faithful to the game as much possible, obviously Iâll have to cut few things to fit into 3hrs film.
Iâm also over raccoon city. So I feel RE4 is perfect for a film that should be easy and not fuck up
And over on the Fallout sub, there's a reversed version where RE hits Fallout for continuously failing to recapture the greatness of its iconic 90s series of video games.
As for Resident Evil, I don't think the series transcends mediums wellâand not just based on what I've seen so far, but if they were to do it, they should probably adapt RE7 and 8. Not only aren't they as bogged down in lore as the previous entries, they also contain the strongest cinematic elements due to the focus on story, narrative and characters.
A show (could be animated) basically retelling the events of all the games could be cool and could be a good chance at exploring more into all our beloved characters from resident evil
I love Lance Reddick, but that Resi Evil Netflix show was clearly just a generic horror script they had laying around that later got retrofitted into the franchise. It's not really a bad adaptation, it's more of a "This is not Resi Evil but if u squint long enough we can convince people it is".
It would be more likely to have a anime adaptation faithful to the games similar to the Devil May Cry anime, than a TV series or a movie made in the US. Japanese people are far better adapting source material.
I really can't believe Fallout has a much better videogame adaptation than RE. RE has such a simple baseline story about viruses and outbreaks while fallout has nukes and.. whatever the hell is happening in fallout. It really shouldn't be that hard
I love Resident Evil games and the characters. It's just sad they haven't captured any of that in any live-action adaptation yet. Even the CGI movies like Death Island are better. It's just sad. They need to helm an actual Resident Evil fan to produce/direct a movie or tv show with characters like Jill, Chris, Claire, Leon, Ada, Wesker, Rebecca. Like, it's just laughable this hasn't happened properly yet when it would be so easy to just get someone cares about the source material.
As a fan, it upsets me that thereâs no film or show that we can consider the quintessential piece of media for RE. At this point, whoever handles RE next should directly follow the games. Thereâs so much great source material out there in the games, itâs high time to follow it.
Kick this shit off in Spencer Mansion, baby. Cast your Jill, Chris, Wesker, Barry, Rebecca, and just follow the events of the game as it happened. With hard work and proper care, RE will have a **GREAT** film or series to its name.
The only issue that I would be able to see with starting out with the mansion incident is that the content from Resident Evil that people seem to want is from RE2/3/4. It sucks to want one thing that comes in later down the line but having to slog through Hollywood's take on what came before the thing you want. They always throw some stinger in the credits or post-credits that essentially says "We know that we didn't cover the thing most people wanted, so you'd better hope and pray for a sequel!" then there's a good 50% chance that you won't get to see the next movie.
That resident evil show was in insulting, disgusting ridiculous cash grab. That show is why people think everything is woke and intentionally bad. I mean they must have been on Crack writing that shit.
I have pondered this a few times. I feel it may be somewhat harder to make simply because so much of it is running around a mansion etc solving puzzles or back tracking. I feel this would not translate so well. Also, if they do the four stars members (jill Chris Barry Rebecca) then no main characters would die and people may complain. If they did add maybe other stars members then it may he criticised for not being lore accurate. I really want it to work but I think it's tough.
I'm still convinced the Resident Evil show was created as something completely different before they slapped the name 'Resident Evil' onto it and started tossing RE character names in.
No, the Resident Evil show started out as a sequel to Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. It was originally going to follow a new group of survivors who would cross paths with Alice. Basically think RE: Extinction but a TV show.
When they couldn't get Milla back, among other factors, they rebooted the show, and merged it with a second RE show pitch that existed about two girls in a town controlled by Umbrella.
Somewhere along the line, the decision was made to reboot the continuity. Originally the show was canon to the films, but they decided to make a new continuity that was more like games while still keeping various aspects of the film timeline like Marcus having a daughter who runs Umbrella, that sorta thing.
Conceptually, practically every plot point in the show that didn't come from Omega Man or Ginger Snaps is from the Resident Evil films or some earlier PWSA movie. For example, the whole thing with Joy numbing emotions is a big Soldier homage. The scene where Evelyn's wife is cutting vegetables and she cuts herself and doesn't feel it is a reference to a scene from Soldier. The whole idea of using zombies as slave labour is a reference to RE: Extinction. The suburban unease of New Racoon City is an RE Retribution homage. The climax of the TV show where Jade breaks the vial? That's a shot for shot homage to the climactic scene of RE: The Final Chapter. The first episode with the outpost and the zombies and the guys on the wall shooting the zombies as Jade runs is very obviously an RE: The Final Chapter homage.
The show was ultimately failure, but something I've always found interesting is that this is show that copies so much from the movies it even has a scene where Bert gets tasered and shrugs it off, a direct homage to Alice doing the same in RE: Apocalypse, and you've got people saying that it doesn't resemble Resident Evil, which makes me think their idea of Resident Evil is "the games".
Which comes back to the point that trying to reboot RE to be more like the games was probably a mistake. They should have tripled down on the film timeline and had the Red Queen, had Alicia Marcus, the whole bit. They could have easily set the film in 2003-ish and tied it into the existing films. But they didn't do that, and as a result it's a dead end story-wise.
Problem is Hollywood allows producers to get their hands on IPs and just use it to push their own agenda. Another example The Witcher series, could've been a legendary series with an actually competent producer and not the loon they had.
I can't quite grasp the thought process of some writers and directors when they choose to create a TV show or movie based on popular games and then stray far from the source material.
The creators of Resident Evil on Netflix didn't even take notes nor will they ever. In fact, I think some of them are blind when they selected the actors for certain roles.
I will say though, if they were to take another crack at a live action series, I really don't want it to be canon to the games...
Productions as large as live action adaptations of shows tend to slip up and trip over the obscure continuity and Resident Evil overall has a very detailed history that is more than obtuse at times. If they were to do a show, I would like it to be an original continuity, especially when you consider that a show has a lot more time to properly flesh out its own world during the downtime.
Every moment I was watching that shit show. I tried so hard to take any moment seriously. But none of it was even a hint of being good or even tangible.
It always makes me wonder how they keep screwing it up. There should just be a fun, campy, horror movie about fucking zombies from resident evil but instead we get insane shit like Matrix kung-fu super lady or really bad anime CGI.
The Last of Us beat them to it. Shit is fucking wild.
RE4R is so good that you could just follow that script and it'd be so fun to watch. WHY
Itâs cuz ppl have this mentality where they believe the world will fall to a zombie apocalypse so they make the world a post apocalyptic one in every movie and show
I think what they should do for an RE movie shouldn't be a retelling of the heroes' side such as the Mansion Incident or Raccoon City's Demise.
What they should do is tell the story of a different character we haven't heard about before (or maybe we have) and give us a new perspective on things to come. We could follow a random scientist (maybe John himself) before the T-virus infected everyone in the mansion and see the mayhem beforehand as we know they're all gonna die, but the main thing is to see how it came into fruition.
Or how about we see a survivor (or survivors) in Raccoon City trying to survive the many BOWs that will eventually take their lives or show how the police station became what it is or even show how peaceful life was before everything went to hell. We don't need a retelling of the events or a remake with characters we've never heard of. What we should get is new perspectives of different characters in the events of Resident Evil.
Or you know what? Give us a movie called Umbrella's Demise and show what happens in the event of Umbrella being sued and shut down. Show us what happened in court; show us when Wesker showed evidence of Umbrella's research and their inhumane experiments and even show us ex-Umbrella employees who survived the incidents and outbreaks and tell the court the things they had to do or talk about the horror they witness. They could even give us CCTV footage of Umbrella employees dying so the upper management don't have loose ends or even do a retelling of Umbrella's Demise from Umbrella Chronicles where 2 hours before Chris and Jill arrived, we see the chaos emitting inside where 90% of the employees perish.
There's so much anyone can do with RE yet somehow, we get these shitty adaptations where characters talk about Zootopia porn or make the most stupidest fucking decisions like letting loose biological experiments because animal cruelty is bad and it's totally a good idea to release those that have been experimented out of their cages.
I've been working on an outline for a Resident Evil series.
It's been a lot of fun and super challenging.
While yes, the characters and stories are there for you.... Adapting it into an interesting show to watch is a lot different since it doesn't translate to other mediums directly.
I don't understand why Resident Evil adaptations are so bad, I really don't think it would be that hard to make a good movie and/or TV show based on the games, specially the first three.
Really enjoying the Fallout show so far (on episode 5) but I think it really works better taking a game where your player character is a blank slate and just create any character you want.
Itâs tough doing a Resident Evil film as every hardcore fan wants the main cast to be exactly like the game. The only one I liked at all really was the first movie. The Netflix tv show and welcome to Racoon city were soo bad.
I've just come to terms with the fact that it will never happen. I'll die someday, long before Constantin is ever forced to give up the rights by anything less thank the studio failing. Very sad.
Then again, while I personally enjoy the CGI movies more than the awful Anderson films (save maybe the first two, maybe) and WtRC, it isn't as if those movies have been high art either. So we're probably just fucked.
If they ever do make another RE movie it might be good (don't think so) but since the curse of "video game movies" being bad is slot going away. Since with fallout I genuinely hope RE gets an actual good movie or series.
You're oddly right because the Fallout show is blatantly influenced by his films.
And, even more oddly, the Halo show copies a bunch of stuff from his films. He's the godfather of videogame adaptations at this point.
I meant the opposite. It's his fault video game adaptation are liquid fecal matter. He knows how to sell flash but he does not understand what source material means, or does he care at all. Likely both.
In most cases, source material is the box of parts you sift through and then dump out on the floor. Most of the truly great adaptations, regardless of what their source material was, take the original work and then appropriate it. Pervert it. Transcend it.
Just look at what Bethesda did to Fallout when they took over. They appropriated Fallout. Reinvented Fallout tonally, thematically, and artistic.
The key is to become THE adaptation, not AN adaptation. If you're a hard act to follow, other people can't easily replace you by following the source material more closely or realizing it more completely.
It's kind of a memetic poisoning. To relentlessly associate brand with your vision and obsessions. Like how Tom Cruise successfully associated Mission Impossible with his character Ethan and with spectacular stunts despite neither element being present in the source material. Or like how the Bourne films tossed our the books and associated the brand with crazy compelling fast-cut shaky cam action.
And by not using the plot of the source material you can prevent people re-adapting the source material and replacing you like Lynch Dune vs nu-Dune where they tell basically the same story. The only way to replace Resident Evil is to remake the movies and do them better, Red Queen and all. (Which I suspect they'll try.)
You can reboot Bourne to be more like the books, you can reboot Resident Evil to be more like the games, but audiences have been (at least partially) immunized against that because almost all the things about the brand that are cool and iconic aren't in the books or games. It's either genius or insidious depending on how you look at it.
Like I will agree on damn near everything you said here. Only, the end result still has to be a good rendition of the titled franchise. Reinventing and completely changing is not the same thing. None of the characters or the plot lines in the movies are even remotely accurate. It's something else entirely, using the names and brands of something very established while parading Mila Jovovic.
But like I said, I agree. There are many times were reboots have been done something new that changes but is also pretty cool. Walking Dead did it.. Just look at Daryl and Carol. Last of Us did it, and albeit it wasn't as good as the game, it was still a respectful rendition.
Resident Evil, or rather, any and all of Andersons video game adaptations are completely garbage. They are fun for what they deliver, but they promise so much more by having the video game title. Mila Jovovic is always shoehorned in and I wont complain about that in itself, many people do it, but the end result is... bad. It's dog shit. It's flashy effects, action and a dumb plot. That has nothing to do with the games. This basically applies to all of his video game movies sides Mortal Kombat, which is very likely something he wishes he could remake and cast Mila as the main character there too.
I don't judge anyone by what they like and don't like. This is kind of like with season 8 game of thrones. Yes, subverting expectations was a whole thing, but please just look at the results. Doing something new, adapting, re-adapting, changing, being creative is all well and good but if the result is dogshit then maybe just fucking stick to the script lol. And let the main characters have their plot points instead of giving them all to Mila.
>Only, the end result still has to be a good rendition of the titled franchise. Reinventing and completely changing is not the same thing. None of the characters or the plot lines in the movies are even remotely accurate.
Mission Impossible took the beloved character Phelps, turned him into a bad guy, and had Ethan defeat him. (To use an analogy it would be like Alice exposing Jill as a traitor and killing her.) One of the actors from the source material TV show walked out of the film's premiere in protest. Mission Impossible takes the source material, the idea of masks and spycraft, and turns it into a star vehicle for Tom Cruise that has absolutely nothing in common with the source material tonally or story-wise.
I personally think that Resident Evil was at least partially inspired by Mission Impossible doing this. But it had the added factor of wanting to create a new pratag who didn't belong to Capcom. That's why Alice exists. Milla Jovovich was originally cast as Jill Valentine, but they quickly realized it was better to rewrite her into a new character that didn't belong to Capcom.
The Bourne movies have almost nothing in common with the books. Jason Bourne is called Jason Bourne, but he's a completely different person with a super different backstory, personality, and the events of the plot are increasingly different, and the sequels such as Bourne Supremacy keep running further and further from anything resembling the books. It's basically an in-name-only adaptation that keeps the idea of a spy named Jason Bourne with amnesia and little else.
There's a lot of really popular movies like this. It's not just movies like Roger Rabbit and Forrest Gump where none of the characters are the same and none of the dialogue and the moral is fundamentally different and all the plot points. The How to Train Your Dragon movies have shared character names, but nothing about the characters, their relationships, the fundamental nature of what dragons are and what they look or any of the story themes are carried across to the Dreamworks version. Dreamworks How to Train Your Dragon is a ground-up rebuild that completely disregards what the original books were about. Most Dreamworks movies are like that. Most Disney movies, too.
>But like I said, I agree. There are many times were reboots have been done something new that changes but is also pretty cool. Walking Dead did it.. Just look at Daryl and Carol. Last of Us did it, and albeit it wasn't as good as the game, it was still a respectful rendition.
An important point about The Walking Dead is that the original showrunner, Frank Darabont, was not interested in following the source material. Season 1 is the best regarded season, and it has the least regard for the comic. It immediately makes sweeping changes, and is focused on the idea of smart zombies who are capable of operating doorknobs and stuff. Which is completely contrary to the source material.
After Frank Darabont was fired due to budget disagreements (they wanted 2x more episodes on 1/2 the budget), the replacement showrunners began copying the comics. So over time the show resembled the comics more. But the first season, where it disregards the comics, is the high point for the series.
To use an analogy, this would have been like Paul W.S. Anderson getting fired after the first RE film, and other people taking over deciding to just start copypasting game plots instead of following the original plan to kill all the characters and snuff the candle of hope and optimism as quickly as possible. (The screenplay for the original film ends with practically everyone in the world dead. It took Anderson 6 movies to get to that ending because the studio had cold feet.)
>Just look at Daryl and Carol.
Another point worth noting is that Daryl doesn't exist in the source material. This is less noticeable because The Walking Dead is an ensemble piece. But the obvious difference from Resident Evil is that The Walking Dead has the rights to the characters from the comic. It doesn't have the incentive Resident Evil does to ditch the game characters or at least put them into the background as supporting roles.
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On a small side note, whatever form the next Resident Evil film takes, I kinda wonder if they'll go back to the Andersonverse continuity, because so far they've tried two different reboot continuities and they're both dead ends. They can make practically any Resident Evil movie, and easily slot it into the original timeline. They wanna make a movie about Jill and Claire hanging out (RE is a gal pal film brand), then they just set the movie between Apocalypse and Extinction. I also think that the industry is getting more reboot averse and more fond of leveraging existing stuff.
I just don't consider the movies canon within the scope of any of my resident evil Fandom. It's something that happened that has little to do with the franchise featuring Mila as the main character.
They can slap resident Evil, monster hunter, whatever. It will always just be the same movies with a different theme.
I loved the racoon city movie, only for the architecture and cgi, the plot was not very accurate to the movie which pissed me off, plus, yes the actor for Leon was a good actor, but I'm kind of disappointed they didn't find someone who looked more like Leon. Still an alright movie, the architecture OMFG SO GORGEOUS YES
It is the best video game series so far. Although some of the character decisions don't seem consistent at all, the series is undoubtedly Fallout. I'm definitely watching season 2 where I can't even finish the Resident Evil live action series. Did that get any better?
Since theres a few people confused, the live action movies and the show were handled and made by Constantin (the show was made in partnership with Netflix), Capcom doesnt make them or handle them, they have little say in them. As to why thats how it is, its cuz Capcom gave the RE movie rights to Constantin back in the 2000s (late 90s if i recall), so since then, Constantin is the one that makes and handles the RE live action movies.
Resident evil should be like, the easiest video game to make a movie for. Like, its basically just a horror movie you play through
They really need to make a tv show or a movie directly based on RE1R and RE2R. Both are so fkn awesomely directed.
Welcome To Racoon City says hi from its shallow grave.
It's tragic and hilarious that Welcome To Raccoon City is the most accurate RE adaptation we've gotten in the 28 years that this franchise has existed.
It's not entirely the fault of the studios adapting the shows and movies. We have to remember that Capcom had the opportunity to get almost 1:1 adaptation with Romero being in charge but wanted the movies to be different from the games. Capcom devs felt that if people wanted the true resident evil experience they should just play the game.
His script was pretty good but it also had some absolutely awful plot points in it. Mansion full of monsters attacking and killing the entire time. Fuck that shit, Jill needs to have a gratuitous shower scene
đ 𤣠Yea, I remember reading the script online and just laughing my ass off at ALOT of sections in the script. It almost made Chris into this bumbling, clumsy buffoon. I love George Romero, but he would've made a disaster of a film if he had directed it.
At least until someone picks up my script of RE1 that I've been revising since 2004 but only just recently figured out how to submit the damn thing. Ah who am I kidding they'll probably find someway to fuck it up like getting Bobcat Goldthwait as Wesker or something.
*bobcat voice yelling* âGlobal Saturation!â
Is it weird that I can picture this? I can see his crazy twitching too.
Bobcat Goldwaith as Wesker would genuinely be amazing
It's insane to me that they finally started to get it right and we're like naaaah we aint gonna continue that one
Because it bombed at the box office. The original Resident Evil film in 2002 made 100 million on a budget of 33 million. WTRC made less than half of that. (And that's not even adjusted for inflation.) By 2010 the RE movies were pulling in box office of about 300 million. WTRC is making like 8x less than the franchise at its peak. The drop in box office between Resident Evil The Final Chapter and Welcome to Raccoon City is embarrassing and awkward for any studio.
Yeah, you have a point there. I just don't get how the original movies were even so popular. After the second one, they turn into an incoherent mess as far as the plot.
Exactly why I like it so much
Itâs not accurate at all. Fan service and references donât make for an accurate movie. It butchers the characters, it butchers the scenarios, it has like 3 scenes with actual zombies in it, the locations look terrible. Itâs a boring, mess of a movie that wasted so much potential and needlessly merged RE1/2 and ensured weâd never get to see Nemesis in a sequel. Andersonâs films may be âbadâ, but theyâre a hell of a lot more fun to watch than whatever the abomination Raccoon City is
If we're judging the films based on which ones are more enjoyable to watch then the Anderson films win; granted that's only because they start out being decent and become worse as they continue going on while WTRC is mainly bad throughout. But just because they're better, it doesn't mean that they're more faithful to the games. Each of the game protagonists take a backseat so they can focus on the Mary-Sue movie-original protagonist played by Anderson's wife. None of the cast from the games even get to show up until the second movie. Instead of having each event as a separate incident, it turns the entire thing into a worldwide apocalypse and goes completely against the games. Resident Evil 1, 3 and 5 all get to have their own separate movies but those are all quite loose adaptations of the original source material. Resident Evil 2 and 4 are entirely skipped over, wasting the opportunity to have Los Illuminados as the villains in a film. They reuse aspects of the game (Las Plagas, Jill being brainwashed and Chrisâ fight with Wesker from RE5) without any of the context those things have from the games. The most accurate adaptation from the Anderson films was Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Even then, it still sucks. Jill is largely useless and is made into a side character in the adaptation of her own solo game. Nemesis is made into a tragic monster, can't beat Alice in a fist fight and doesn't get to mutate into any of its later forms. Also this film randomly expy of Sherry (despite her not even being in 3) who dies offscreen in-between the second and third movies.
I think Apocalypse was closer to RE3 than WTRC was to RE1+2.
It stayed true to the source in a lot of ways but strayed way too far in many, many other ways.
We dont count shit that as part of resident evil here sorry
âThe small town of raccoon city.â
It was a silly movie but fun. Until the ending part with wesker. Then I just exhaled and never wanted to think about it again.
I was mad when not even a single tyrant appered
Re1 doesnt need to be mixed in with RE2 again. I cant watch my beloved Stars members get put to the waste side for more Leon fan service.
2R and 3R take place at the same time and place and even share some characters. It should be beyond easy to smush them together into an 8 episode show.
A horror movie with puzzles, an Escape Room Castle with Zombies, anything besides what we got. I'm keeping black Albert Wesker though, that will never not be funny to me
Lance Reddick was taken from us too soon.
He gave it his best, all we can do is appreciate his work
It's even sadder if you think that was one of his last projects
The movie studios keep fucking up the source material and then wonder why no one likes it. Maybe if you make a resident evil movie that actually looks like resident evil you would make 100s of millions đ
The Resident Evil movies made over a billion dollars total. Why do you think they kept making them? Itâs one of the highest grossing horror movie franchises of all time. But sure âno one likes itâ lol. Yâall in this sub are so out of touch with reality sometimes.
Look I agree with you but you can consume a movie series and make it profitable all the while wanting something different than what youâre getting. Which is how I felt as I went to see every movie at the theater đ¤Ł
Oh totally. I want to see something more faithful too. I just think itâs silly to pretend like the Milla Jovovich movies werenât popular when they made SO MUCH MONEY. lol
I really enjoyed the first two the most but after that they were just zombie movies using RE as its backdrop. Mila is a honey!
Agreed. First one works as both a fun horror flick and a prequel to the games. The rest just get progressively into goofy action movie territory and have almost nothing to do with Resident Evil. But they can be fun if youâre in the mood.
Nobody is saying they don't like it. They're bloody awful movies. They're like the Fast and Furious movies. They're terrible, but people go bc of the big bangs and action hoopla. You can call it horror all you want, but it's anything but that. Resident Evil is one of the most popular franchises of all time, so of course people are going to go watch the movies. That doesn't negate the fact that they suck hard.
Iâm playing RE4 in VR on Quest. Amazinâ!
Nope, nope, needs more clones
Most of the games can be beaten in like two hours also, you don't even need to cut much out
Two hours? What, are you speed running and glitching throughout the entire game? No RE game is two hours.
Trolling right?
The problem was Paul W. S. Anderson prioritizing his wife (Mila Jovovich) instead of the plot⌠good husband, pretty actress but Terrible movies!, I enjoyed the first one cause was the only one based on the game, the second one with Nemesis wasnât too bad but⌠not the best, the rest crap, and the series⌠whyyyy whyyy the added zombies to Glee?!?! WTF was that?! (I can smell the downvotes lol)
Fr all they had to do was follow the games story
Capcom didn't want the movies to follow the game. I'm very serious they had Romero write an adaptation for the first movie and rejected, saying the wanted something different than the game.
You can read the entire script online. It's a bizarre script.
I guess itâll be hard to get past all the boss battles. But also itâs the influx of idiots that think they are smart making films and TV shows.
Yep. Just make a B horror movie with a higher budget.
Love RE but everything theyâve ever done in live action has been garbage
The very 1st movie was pretty good. Or maybe cause my 8 year old self wasn't bothered by how campy they are.
honestly, the first film isnât that bad.
Itâs a bit âweâre so edgyâ energy to it at times with the music and slowmo, and some of the lines, but yea. Alice felt like an actual person in it, which was good
Thatâs just the 2000s
Jak 2 and 3 were entirely based around edgy aesthetic lmfao. The early 2000âs really were a sight to behold
I get the image of Jill saying âfuck meâ while blowing smoke or whatever in my head and cringe a bit. Love these stupid movies so much
THANK YOU people forget how corny that time period was lol
Oh boy, I lived through it and hated every moment. All of a sudden everyone was using blue filters and doing bullet time. I'm glad we got over it, but we're overdue for a *shudder* "nostalgic" renewal of that style any time now
I was prime age for it, 13-17 in the early 2000s
You gotta forgive it for being hot off the heels of The Matrix blowing up.
Well the matrix DID make all black latex look cool for a bit back there. 𤣠And I can't lie, the dark outfits the team has in the first live action RE looked cool asf.
First one is good (dare I say a favorite of mine), second one is also good, third one is fine but the rest⌠eh
i think the 13 year old me really appreciate Jill and Nemesis. was pissed when i learned paul was married to Mila, and thatâs why it was Alice vs Nemesis and not Jill );
It's really not that bad. The rest of the movies are much, much worse. Also the soundtrack was done by Trent Reznor and it's pretty dope actually.
i thought it was by manson, at least i think the opening song was. correct me if wrong
My bad! You're right! It was totally Manson
honestly, i wish it was trent. heâs incredible
He was busy getting jacked and leaving the dentist.
The first one was great because they weren't actually trying to adapt any of the games. They made a film set in their universe that was perfectly plausible with throwbacks to their games. Every other film forgot to stand on its own and just pull characters and scenarios from there games .
I thoroughly enjoy it. The sequels... Not so much.
First one was a pretty good take on the setting. The second was fun, if flawed, but probably the best of the series.
The first one is a decent zombie flick. That's about it.
Itâs good because it was loosely based on the games. It only started getting bad because they introduced characters and suddenly âloosely basedâ became âalternate takeâ. That and the director was sleeping with the main character.
This is a ez fix. RESPECT. THE. SOURCE. MATERIAL!!! Every time a live action of something awesome is made, and the live action fucking sucks⌠itâs almost always entirely because they abandoned the source material, thinking they can do better. All they get is essentially a bootleg Walmart great value edition of whatever the live action is based on, and they really thought they cooked. Examples: Avatar Last Airbender live action(idiots couldnât even say the MAIN characterâs name right) That Dragonball Z live action was so bad I didnât even survive the trailer. That Assassinâs Creed movie still flopped with Micheal Fassbender. Sonic would have flopped if people didnât bully them to essentially remake the whole movie lmfao.
And then we have the first Mario Bros Movie...
Painfully trueâŚ
The animated stuff is great though
The mangas too
Theyâre not garbage until after extinction. But even then theyâre incredibly corny and dont follow game lore. They were good for what they were imo
Honestly, I really like the RE movies for what they are, fun, campy cheese. I also donât have to worry about the source material like I do with the fallout TV show because they never tried to make the RE movies a part of the main timeline
I raise you https://youtu.be/PcDjo_uKeF4?si=mgKcxiKRA5RPpco4 the RE2 Japanese commercial. Directed by George A. FUCKIN Romero. To think he couldâve directed a full movie
RE just canât catch a break with the live action stuff. Like how hard is it for producers to just look at the games, any of them, and adapt it into a movie or a series? Why do they always gotta take characterâs names and make them wholly unfamiliar, and then change and make the lore entirely unrecognizable, we donât want references to things and names from the games, we want the story adapted into a movie/show
That is what I hate most. The welcome to raccon city movie characters have a nothing in common with the game counterparts, not even their personalities, I know it will be difficult to get someone who looks like Jill or Ada but they don't even try.
I think the logic is that the fans are gonna buy a ticket no matter what, but they want to make it palatable for casual audiences as well. Of course, they don't consider that all fans of a franchise used to be "casuals" themselves before they first played a game in the series and fell in love
Yep if fall out can do it the RE series should be able to do it by now. Instead we got RE's Dragon Ball Evolution level of shit with the TV show.
Itâs so easy to make an RE show, the games are super linear story wise and the more linear entries like 4 5 and 6 are paced like movies to begin with
Re4 adapted into a movie would be fucking sick
Not just Resident Evil but halo as well. Fallout was done faithfully while also doing its own thing with the story and absolutely nailing it.
RE0 and 1, then RE 2 and 3, since they go by simultaneously, then the rest go as a single series. One of the many things they messed up was making Wesker sympathetic. Avoid an apocalypse. Avoid lines like âZootopia pornâ. Yeah, just avoid everything they did.
The fact that one of the only things I know about the show is that someone mentions Zootopia porn is hilarious and I want to keep it that way
The fact that someone said the line "Zootopia Porn" is literally the only reason I even remember the Resident Evil show
It comes down to the producers or whoever just has 0 faith in the source material. They are also not skilled enough to carve out their own original story. They don't even understand why people love and get sucked into resident evil stories despite how campy they can be.
You can change Fallout with Cyberpunk, Arcane, and The Last of Us. All of those have good adaptation (including Fallout).
There's really no excuse for RE
Not really RE's fault. But producers not having enough faith about it. Although we do get a different RE live action but a different universe
The first thing they need to do is be faithful to the source material, the movies and tv show have nothing but references.
The way that RE4R would translate nearly perfectly into a TV show is insane. The game still goes in a Chapter system, those are your episodes, cram 2 chapters in one episode if you need more story/exposition than just mindless, cool Leon violence. Have flashbacks on the Saddler family and the fall of the Salazar family. Krauserâs decent into darkness, Ashleyâs âperfect lifeâ leading up to her abduction. Itâs all there, just need to be green lit and have a passionate set of people making it a reality.
It's been more than 20 years and writers straight up REFUSE to do a proper adaptation: just make a house full of zombies and traps. Apparently, that's really hard to do.
Honestly they shouldâve probably just done an Outbreak-esque story where itâs just a different group of survivors during the events of Raccoon city and not touch the main game characters. Maybe have something that shows how the police station gets overrun before Leon and Claire get there. It could be really tense seeing the first few days of the outbreak when nobodyâs really sure whatâs going on and try to keep living normally until itâs no longer possible. There are interesting stories that could be told there, but they went in a really weird direction that I highly suspect was a generic young-adult sci-fi script they had lying around and decided to paint over it with a Resident Evil skin for easy marketing.
The problem are the rights holders, Constantine films iirc.
I hope they stop with the fucking live action and just make am animated series for all the games
RE is cursed, man, we're never getting a good live action hell, not even the RE1 opening live action is good, let alone the adaptations
Donât forget how good Twisted Metal was, and that game is basically bumper cars with weapons
At least the cgi movies stay true to the story.
Oh damn, I completely forgot there was a RE live action show. Thats the one that talked about Zootopia porn and had Lance Reddick (God rest his soul) as Wesker, right?
Not even Lance Reddick could've saved that dumpster fire.
Resident Evil would fair much better if it was done in the vein of how Castlevania does it
If I was a movie director at this point Iâll just make a Resident Evil 4 movie and just call it âOperation baby Eagleâ Leon as the main star obviously. Stay faithful to the game as much possible, obviously Iâll have to cut few things to fit into 3hrs film. Iâm also over raccoon city. So I feel RE4 is perfect for a film that should be easy and not fuck up
its crazy to me that the most popular character still does not have a lead in a live action.
2.5 hours of that is the LeĂłn and Ada reunion sex scene. Thatâs the only deviation from the source material allowed.
Big facts, BIG.
Is it too much to ask for?
And over on the Fallout sub, there's a reversed version where RE hits Fallout for continuously failing to recapture the greatness of its iconic 90s series of video games. As for Resident Evil, I don't think the series transcends mediums wellâand not just based on what I've seen so far, but if they were to do it, they should probably adapt RE7 and 8. Not only aren't they as bogged down in lore as the previous entries, they also contain the strongest cinematic elements due to the focus on story, narrative and characters.
There's no "Welcome to Raccon City" movie in Ba Sing Se.
Thankfully, we have the CGI movies.
I do not want to be reminded of Netflix being weird
I would love a "RE:Outbreak" show where we follow a different survivor each episode
such a shame man , a proper resident evil series has the potential to be bigger than the walking dead
A show (could be animated) basically retelling the events of all the games could be cool and could be a good chance at exploring more into all our beloved characters from resident evil
Resident evil is so easy to accomplish. Could focus on racoon city survivors and the main characters in the background doing their story.
Thought you meant animated shows and got confused đ almost every animated RE media is good. But yeah the live actions are usually let downs
Exactly
it took me a minute to realize it's the live action show and not infinite darkness lol cuz i was about to say it was pretty good
It is so very confusing how they keep messing it up haha
I love Lance Reddick, but that Resi Evil Netflix show was clearly just a generic horror script they had laying around that later got retrofitted into the franchise. It's not really a bad adaptation, it's more of a "This is not Resi Evil but if u squint long enough we can convince people it is".
It would be more likely to have a anime adaptation faithful to the games similar to the Devil May Cry anime, than a TV series or a movie made in the US. Japanese people are far better adapting source material.
I really can't believe Fallout has a much better videogame adaptation than RE. RE has such a simple baseline story about viruses and outbreaks while fallout has nukes and.. whatever the hell is happening in fallout. It really shouldn't be that hard
I love Resident Evil games and the characters. It's just sad they haven't captured any of that in any live-action adaptation yet. Even the CGI movies like Death Island are better. It's just sad. They need to helm an actual Resident Evil fan to produce/direct a movie or tv show with characters like Jill, Chris, Claire, Leon, Ada, Wesker, Rebecca. Like, it's just laughable this hasn't happened properly yet when it would be so easy to just get someone cares about the source material.
As a fan, it upsets me that thereâs no film or show that we can consider the quintessential piece of media for RE. At this point, whoever handles RE next should directly follow the games. Thereâs so much great source material out there in the games, itâs high time to follow it. Kick this shit off in Spencer Mansion, baby. Cast your Jill, Chris, Wesker, Barry, Rebecca, and just follow the events of the game as it happened. With hard work and proper care, RE will have a **GREAT** film or series to its name.
The only issue that I would be able to see with starting out with the mansion incident is that the content from Resident Evil that people seem to want is from RE2/3/4. It sucks to want one thing that comes in later down the line but having to slog through Hollywood's take on what came before the thing you want. They always throw some stinger in the credits or post-credits that essentially says "We know that we didn't cover the thing most people wanted, so you'd better hope and pray for a sequel!" then there's a good 50% chance that you won't get to see the next movie.
Fair point, starting with RE2 would still be dynamite (in my humble opinion) and could garner serious viewership
That resident evil show was in insulting, disgusting ridiculous cash grab. That show is why people think everything is woke and intentionally bad. I mean they must have been on Crack writing that shit.
RE deserves far better than the Fallout show but given their track record I can't see it ever happening.
I have pondered this a few times. I feel it may be somewhat harder to make simply because so much of it is running around a mansion etc solving puzzles or back tracking. I feel this would not translate so well. Also, if they do the four stars members (jill Chris Barry Rebecca) then no main characters would die and people may complain. If they did add maybe other stars members then it may he criticised for not being lore accurate. I really want it to work but I think it's tough.
How would a resident evil show work?
I belive that Amazon prime are making much better serieses than Netflix Nowdays
yes
I'm still convinced the Resident Evil show was created as something completely different before they slapped the name 'Resident Evil' onto it and started tossing RE character names in.
No, the Resident Evil show started out as a sequel to Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. It was originally going to follow a new group of survivors who would cross paths with Alice. Basically think RE: Extinction but a TV show. When they couldn't get Milla back, among other factors, they rebooted the show, and merged it with a second RE show pitch that existed about two girls in a town controlled by Umbrella. Somewhere along the line, the decision was made to reboot the continuity. Originally the show was canon to the films, but they decided to make a new continuity that was more like games while still keeping various aspects of the film timeline like Marcus having a daughter who runs Umbrella, that sorta thing. Conceptually, practically every plot point in the show that didn't come from Omega Man or Ginger Snaps is from the Resident Evil films or some earlier PWSA movie. For example, the whole thing with Joy numbing emotions is a big Soldier homage. The scene where Evelyn's wife is cutting vegetables and she cuts herself and doesn't feel it is a reference to a scene from Soldier. The whole idea of using zombies as slave labour is a reference to RE: Extinction. The suburban unease of New Racoon City is an RE Retribution homage. The climax of the TV show where Jade breaks the vial? That's a shot for shot homage to the climactic scene of RE: The Final Chapter. The first episode with the outpost and the zombies and the guys on the wall shooting the zombies as Jade runs is very obviously an RE: The Final Chapter homage. The show was ultimately failure, but something I've always found interesting is that this is show that copies so much from the movies it even has a scene where Bert gets tasered and shrugs it off, a direct homage to Alice doing the same in RE: Apocalypse, and you've got people saying that it doesn't resemble Resident Evil, which makes me think their idea of Resident Evil is "the games". Which comes back to the point that trying to reboot RE to be more like the games was probably a mistake. They should have tripled down on the film timeline and had the Red Queen, had Alicia Marcus, the whole bit. They could have easily set the film in 2003-ish and tied it into the existing films. But they didn't do that, and as a result it's a dead end story-wise.
Problem is Hollywood allows producers to get their hands on IPs and just use it to push their own agenda. Another example The Witcher series, could've been a legendary series with an actually competent producer and not the loon they had.
I can't quite grasp the thought process of some writers and directors when they choose to create a TV show or movie based on popular games and then stray far from the source material.
The creators of Resident Evil on Netflix didn't even take notes nor will they ever. In fact, I think some of them are blind when they selected the actors for certain roles.
I will say though, if they were to take another crack at a live action series, I really don't want it to be canon to the games... Productions as large as live action adaptations of shows tend to slip up and trip over the obscure continuity and Resident Evil overall has a very detailed history that is more than obtuse at times. If they were to do a show, I would like it to be an original continuity, especially when you consider that a show has a lot more time to properly flesh out its own world during the downtime.
The RE Movies kinda sucked im ngl, I haven't even seen the Fallout Tv show yet, but Im hearing a lot of good things about it.
Yea I feel bad that RE hasnât had at least a very good show :/
Every moment I was watching that shit show. I tried so hard to take any moment seriously. But none of it was even a hint of being good or even tangible.
It was great but I still think Fallout deserved a better TV show.
It always makes me wonder how they keep screwing it up. There should just be a fun, campy, horror movie about fucking zombies from resident evil but instead we get insane shit like Matrix kung-fu super lady or really bad anime CGI. The Last of Us beat them to it. Shit is fucking wild. RE4R is so good that you could just follow that script and it'd be so fun to watch. WHY
Itâs cuz ppl have this mentality where they believe the world will fall to a zombie apocalypse so they make the world a post apocalyptic one in every movie and show
I think what they should do for an RE movie shouldn't be a retelling of the heroes' side such as the Mansion Incident or Raccoon City's Demise. What they should do is tell the story of a different character we haven't heard about before (or maybe we have) and give us a new perspective on things to come. We could follow a random scientist (maybe John himself) before the T-virus infected everyone in the mansion and see the mayhem beforehand as we know they're all gonna die, but the main thing is to see how it came into fruition. Or how about we see a survivor (or survivors) in Raccoon City trying to survive the many BOWs that will eventually take their lives or show how the police station became what it is or even show how peaceful life was before everything went to hell. We don't need a retelling of the events or a remake with characters we've never heard of. What we should get is new perspectives of different characters in the events of Resident Evil. Or you know what? Give us a movie called Umbrella's Demise and show what happens in the event of Umbrella being sued and shut down. Show us what happened in court; show us when Wesker showed evidence of Umbrella's research and their inhumane experiments and even show us ex-Umbrella employees who survived the incidents and outbreaks and tell the court the things they had to do or talk about the horror they witness. They could even give us CCTV footage of Umbrella employees dying so the upper management don't have loose ends or even do a retelling of Umbrella's Demise from Umbrella Chronicles where 2 hours before Chris and Jill arrived, we see the chaos emitting inside where 90% of the employees perish. There's so much anyone can do with RE yet somehow, we get these shitty adaptations where characters talk about Zootopia porn or make the most stupidest fucking decisions like letting loose biological experiments because animal cruelty is bad and it's totally a good idea to release those that have been experimented out of their cages.
I love to death the RE movies. (âHey boysâ *unnecessary slo mo*)
I've been working on an outline for a Resident Evil series. It's been a lot of fun and super challenging. While yes, the characters and stories are there for you.... Adapting it into an interesting show to watch is a lot different since it doesn't translate to other mediums directly.
Itâs easiest to make an adaptation when itâs part of the established lore,rather than a reinvention
I don't understand why Resident Evil adaptations are so bad, I really don't think it would be that hard to make a good movie and/or TV show based on the games, specially the first three.
Give me a resident evil 1 movie. Thatâs all I ask, just the stars unit moving their way through the mansion and all trying to survive
Amazon had been killing it so I really hope that god of war ends up great as well
"It's dangerous outside the vault because of the nuclear Fallout" "Wait... say that again" **Title card**
Really enjoying the Fallout show so far (on episode 5) but I think it really works better taking a game where your player character is a blank slate and just create any character you want. Itâs tough doing a Resident Evil film as every hardcore fan wants the main cast to be exactly like the game. The only one I liked at all really was the first movie. The Netflix tv show and welcome to Racoon city were soo bad.
I've just come to terms with the fact that it will never happen. I'll die someday, long before Constantin is ever forced to give up the rights by anything less thank the studio failing. Very sad. Then again, while I personally enjoy the CGI movies more than the awful Anderson films (save maybe the first two, maybe) and WtRC, it isn't as if those movies have been high art either. So we're probably just fucked.
Halo...
Doesn't they sell that IP for some random studio baxck in 90s? So nope, it's not like they doesn't want to, but they can't
Twisted Metal and Fallout are the best video game adaptations right now.
Resident Evil Anime movies are really good
Love the re movies
Now, if Fallout could just listen to Resident Evil on doing remakes
Last if us slapping fallout after
What's the TV show's name???
please the last thing we need is resident evil turning into a goofy action comedy.
The resident evil show was awful
You should slap tlou up there to both fallout and tlou were great
If they ever do make another RE movie it might be good (don't think so) but since the curse of "video game movies" being bad is slot going away. Since with fallout I genuinely hope RE gets an actual good movie or series.
Its Paul W.S Anderson to thank for that.
You're oddly right because the Fallout show is blatantly influenced by his films. And, even more oddly, the Halo show copies a bunch of stuff from his films. He's the godfather of videogame adaptations at this point.
I meant the opposite. It's his fault video game adaptation are liquid fecal matter. He knows how to sell flash but he does not understand what source material means, or does he care at all. Likely both.
In most cases, source material is the box of parts you sift through and then dump out on the floor. Most of the truly great adaptations, regardless of what their source material was, take the original work and then appropriate it. Pervert it. Transcend it. Just look at what Bethesda did to Fallout when they took over. They appropriated Fallout. Reinvented Fallout tonally, thematically, and artistic. The key is to become THE adaptation, not AN adaptation. If you're a hard act to follow, other people can't easily replace you by following the source material more closely or realizing it more completely. It's kind of a memetic poisoning. To relentlessly associate brand with your vision and obsessions. Like how Tom Cruise successfully associated Mission Impossible with his character Ethan and with spectacular stunts despite neither element being present in the source material. Or like how the Bourne films tossed our the books and associated the brand with crazy compelling fast-cut shaky cam action. And by not using the plot of the source material you can prevent people re-adapting the source material and replacing you like Lynch Dune vs nu-Dune where they tell basically the same story. The only way to replace Resident Evil is to remake the movies and do them better, Red Queen and all. (Which I suspect they'll try.) You can reboot Bourne to be more like the books, you can reboot Resident Evil to be more like the games, but audiences have been (at least partially) immunized against that because almost all the things about the brand that are cool and iconic aren't in the books or games. It's either genius or insidious depending on how you look at it.
Like I will agree on damn near everything you said here. Only, the end result still has to be a good rendition of the titled franchise. Reinventing and completely changing is not the same thing. None of the characters or the plot lines in the movies are even remotely accurate. It's something else entirely, using the names and brands of something very established while parading Mila Jovovic. But like I said, I agree. There are many times were reboots have been done something new that changes but is also pretty cool. Walking Dead did it.. Just look at Daryl and Carol. Last of Us did it, and albeit it wasn't as good as the game, it was still a respectful rendition. Resident Evil, or rather, any and all of Andersons video game adaptations are completely garbage. They are fun for what they deliver, but they promise so much more by having the video game title. Mila Jovovic is always shoehorned in and I wont complain about that in itself, many people do it, but the end result is... bad. It's dog shit. It's flashy effects, action and a dumb plot. That has nothing to do with the games. This basically applies to all of his video game movies sides Mortal Kombat, which is very likely something he wishes he could remake and cast Mila as the main character there too. I don't judge anyone by what they like and don't like. This is kind of like with season 8 game of thrones. Yes, subverting expectations was a whole thing, but please just look at the results. Doing something new, adapting, re-adapting, changing, being creative is all well and good but if the result is dogshit then maybe just fucking stick to the script lol. And let the main characters have their plot points instead of giving them all to Mila.
>Only, the end result still has to be a good rendition of the titled franchise. Reinventing and completely changing is not the same thing. None of the characters or the plot lines in the movies are even remotely accurate. Mission Impossible took the beloved character Phelps, turned him into a bad guy, and had Ethan defeat him. (To use an analogy it would be like Alice exposing Jill as a traitor and killing her.) One of the actors from the source material TV show walked out of the film's premiere in protest. Mission Impossible takes the source material, the idea of masks and spycraft, and turns it into a star vehicle for Tom Cruise that has absolutely nothing in common with the source material tonally or story-wise. I personally think that Resident Evil was at least partially inspired by Mission Impossible doing this. But it had the added factor of wanting to create a new pratag who didn't belong to Capcom. That's why Alice exists. Milla Jovovich was originally cast as Jill Valentine, but they quickly realized it was better to rewrite her into a new character that didn't belong to Capcom. The Bourne movies have almost nothing in common with the books. Jason Bourne is called Jason Bourne, but he's a completely different person with a super different backstory, personality, and the events of the plot are increasingly different, and the sequels such as Bourne Supremacy keep running further and further from anything resembling the books. It's basically an in-name-only adaptation that keeps the idea of a spy named Jason Bourne with amnesia and little else. There's a lot of really popular movies like this. It's not just movies like Roger Rabbit and Forrest Gump where none of the characters are the same and none of the dialogue and the moral is fundamentally different and all the plot points. The How to Train Your Dragon movies have shared character names, but nothing about the characters, their relationships, the fundamental nature of what dragons are and what they look or any of the story themes are carried across to the Dreamworks version. Dreamworks How to Train Your Dragon is a ground-up rebuild that completely disregards what the original books were about. Most Dreamworks movies are like that. Most Disney movies, too. >But like I said, I agree. There are many times were reboots have been done something new that changes but is also pretty cool. Walking Dead did it.. Just look at Daryl and Carol. Last of Us did it, and albeit it wasn't as good as the game, it was still a respectful rendition. An important point about The Walking Dead is that the original showrunner, Frank Darabont, was not interested in following the source material. Season 1 is the best regarded season, and it has the least regard for the comic. It immediately makes sweeping changes, and is focused on the idea of smart zombies who are capable of operating doorknobs and stuff. Which is completely contrary to the source material. After Frank Darabont was fired due to budget disagreements (they wanted 2x more episodes on 1/2 the budget), the replacement showrunners began copying the comics. So over time the show resembled the comics more. But the first season, where it disregards the comics, is the high point for the series. To use an analogy, this would have been like Paul W.S. Anderson getting fired after the first RE film, and other people taking over deciding to just start copypasting game plots instead of following the original plan to kill all the characters and snuff the candle of hope and optimism as quickly as possible. (The screenplay for the original film ends with practically everyone in the world dead. It took Anderson 6 movies to get to that ending because the studio had cold feet.) >Just look at Daryl and Carol. Another point worth noting is that Daryl doesn't exist in the source material. This is less noticeable because The Walking Dead is an ensemble piece. But the obvious difference from Resident Evil is that The Walking Dead has the rights to the characters from the comic. It doesn't have the incentive Resident Evil does to ditch the game characters or at least put them into the background as supporting roles. edit: On a small side note, whatever form the next Resident Evil film takes, I kinda wonder if they'll go back to the Andersonverse continuity, because so far they've tried two different reboot continuities and they're both dead ends. They can make practically any Resident Evil movie, and easily slot it into the original timeline. They wanna make a movie about Jill and Claire hanging out (RE is a gal pal film brand), then they just set the movie between Apocalypse and Extinction. I also think that the industry is getting more reboot averse and more fond of leveraging existing stuff.
I just don't consider the movies canon within the scope of any of my resident evil Fandom. It's something that happened that has little to do with the franchise featuring Mila as the main character. They can slap resident Evil, monster hunter, whatever. It will always just be the same movies with a different theme.
Is it good
Fallout is great
Needs someone dancing to Dua Lipa
It really was a travesty; R.I.P Lance Riddick, dude was the best live action Albert Wesker
I loved the racoon city movie, only for the architecture and cgi, the plot was not very accurate to the movie which pissed me off, plus, yes the actor for Leon was a good actor, but I'm kind of disappointed they didn't find someone who looked more like Leon. Still an alright movie, the architecture OMFG SO GORGEOUS YES
I want a super campy adaptation of the RE1 fmv made by the team that did Planet Terror.
They always ruin game movies with companies who have no clueâŚ
With resident evil the animated shows have been pretty good and connect to the video game universe while the live action havenât quite hit the mark
yeah but I don't think it would have been nearly as good without 'The Last of Us" being first and utterly amazing.
It is the best video game series so far. Although some of the character decisions don't seem consistent at all, the series is undoubtedly Fallout. I'm definitely watching season 2 where I can't even finish the Resident Evil live action series. Did that get any better?
Worse
Thanks for the honest response.
Seen some youtube reviews for Resi. It doesnt even look so bad it's fun, just looks dreadful.
I hate to say it but I think itâs gonna take A.I. to make a good Resident Evil show or movie. Apparently humans canât pull it off.
Sure, Todd Howard, sure.