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New Resident Evil Movie With Higher Budget in Development by Screen Gems
March Climber
Member
Hot take: Aside from his second Resident Evil movie, the Anderson films have been way more fun to go back to and watch than almost all other RE movies and TV out there.
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Badlucktroll
Member
Maybe they’ll do a proper adaptation of the very first game, or produce George Romero’s script.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
I didn’t watch the TV show, but I own the films. The reception of the show here, was that it was very bad. I’d rather them use the money on game development. I also don’t get why these movies keep getting made, especially after Monster Hunter.
Dirk Benedict
Member
I only care enough to post that I don't care. They don't know how to make a proper one for their existences.
nial
Gold Member
I don't get why people ask questions like these over stuff that clearly makes money. Isn't the answer already obvious?
RagnarokIV
Member
I really enjoyed Welcome To Raccoon City (even got it physical UHD) so I’m down for this.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
because fans complain so much of the quality of their work. Monster Hunter’s budget was 60 million and they made 48 million in box office sales according to the wiki. If they spend millions making these films, will they make their money back?
Also, people say this in a similar way about AAA games. Isn’t that obvious?
I am on the side of where I grew up playing RE on PS1 and I can’t stand their direction at times.
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nial
Gold Member
Yet people still watch them, a much better question would be; why don't they get better staff for these projects?
BTW, why using MonHun as an example, which it's not that much of a blockbuster franchise internationally compared to Resident Evil (at the very least, not back in 2020), when Welcome to Raccoon City was still a financial success?
Gamers, especially on forums, say the dumbest things. Not a very good comparison, IMO.Also, people say this in a similar way about AAA games. Isn’t that obvious?
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BossLackey
Gold Member
Valt7786
Member
I have to ask, why? It wasn't good by any means and it butchered everything it could from the source material besides some aesthetic likenesses.
March Climber
Member
The TV show had two very interesting ideas, the inner workings of Umbrella pre-virus outbreak, and seeing what was left of the desolate zombie-filled world years afterwards in the future.
Both would make for great video games.
However, the latter signifies that BSAA, UN, and the American Government failed after Revelations and RE 6.
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NeverYouMind
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Fart Knight
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Wheres that Silent Hill movie
kiphalfton
Member
Paul Anderson is the definition of a simp.
Different Anderson...
The one you mentioned makes slightly less crappy movies.
Unknown Soldier
Member
The first Resident Evil movie was quietly one of the best zombie movies and one of the best video game movies ever made
The movie franchise went downhill after the first one though
The movie franchise went downhill after the first one though
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
You tried twice, you failed.
No interest unless they're going to use the Romero script as the template.
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FinalBossWithTheMostPower
Member
Welcome to Raccoon City is the most faithful adaption we've had yet.
I wish they followed it up with a proper sequel.
I wish they followed it up with a proper sequel.
ozz ex machina
Member
Resident Evil is a great game not because of its story. It's a trashy B movie. The film adaptations will either be trashy and bad and faithful. Or they could do something respectable but at that point why use the resident evil ip?
Pointless either way imo.
Pointless either way imo.
VolticArchangel
Member
Blast from the past:
The contagious laughter kills me every single time.
The contagious laughter kills me every single time.
Badlucktroll
Member
Believe it or not, the 2002 script lifted some elements from the Romero script, like the laser room guarding the computer but the romero one was better because they get stuck in there with zombies. romeros script even describes the lasers forming a “tight net”
You tried twice, you failed.
No interest unless they're going to use the Romero script as the template.
radewagon
Member
Is a lower bar even possible?
Deerock71
Member
Valt7786
Member
And they still fucked it up. Only a few select scenes and costumes are in anyway faithful.
Chris and Claire being brought up in an orphanage by Birkin.
Chris being the one with the bike and Claire being a "conspiracy" nut.
Mexican Leon being an utter dumbass.
Black Jill being in love with Wesker.
Chief Irons being a coward instead of corrupt maniac.
Wesker being mixed with Barry and being coerced by Umbrella and Ada instead of being the actual antagonist.
Whole thing is utter dogshit and needs to be forgotten.
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
Is the budget high enough for the screenwriter to do research into the franchise beyond watching Skillet AMVs featuring Leon on YouTube?
Hahahahaofcoursenot
Hahahahaofcoursenot
FinalBossWithTheMostPower
Member
Damn, I'm going to have to go back and rewatch.
I remember it being better than what you've described here, if nothing else it was creepier. My memory has probably failed me, though.
But particularly the Lisa Trevor bit, the Ashford twins setup for the sequel, and the train sequence were on point. Right?
Maybe not.
Kamina
Golden Boy
I’d applaud them if they had the balls to make a trans Nemesis
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
It's like they couldn't resist fucking it up.
Funny thing is Movie Critics will praise the game stuff and criticise the Hollywood injected crap and blame it on being an adaptation of a silly game.
bumpkin
Member
If they aren’t completely pivoting away from the style, Welcome to Raccoon City wasn’t fundamentally bad. You just had to ignore them portraying Jill as a thirsty (for Wesker) bitch, Leon being a bumbling fool, and introducing the weird orphanage angle for Chris and Claire.
Well, all that and the low budget VFX.
Well, all that and the low budget VFX.
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NeverYouMind
Member
I don't think so. It has a made for SyFy TV plot with high production values. The deaths lack weight and there are practically no basic survival story beats that make zombie flicks memorable. I would go so far as to say the low production quality Day of the Dead (2008) is a better zombie flick.
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MiguelItUp
Member
If they pull off anything decent I'll be surprised. I remember watching the first RE movie in theaters and leaving thinking, "Well, that wasn't great, but it could've been a lot worse. I guess it was okay." After that they just got worse and worse I felt. I also didn't watch anymore after 2 TBH, lol. I didn't even give that last film or that show a shot, all of them had this "writing on the wall" feel about them. I'd love to see them pull off something decent or more than that. But I feel like that will never happen. I'd love to be wrong.
NeverYouMind
Member
There is great entertainment value in Resident Evil: Retribution. It is a fun sidestory with great references to the videogame series.
CityHunter1981
Member
They should make it R-Rated this time, a zombie movie without gore just doesn’t work for me. But I am sure they had enough success so they will avoid a R-Rating again…
Lambogenie
Member
Make Dino Crisis. Zombie trend is gone. Dinos got no competition and what's there is shit.
Heck, make Planet of Apes but replace Apes for dinosaurs. That's your Dino Crisis movie right there.
Heck, make Planet of Apes but replace Apes for dinosaurs. That's your Dino Crisis movie right there.
March Climber
Member
Yes, the other shows lol.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
They did. Welcome to Raccoon City is pretty faithful, the only big misstep it takes is merging both RE1 and RE2 in the same 90 minute movie (and butchering Leon as a character). Otherwise it's extremely faithful to the characters, locations etc.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Jim Ryan Fanclub's #1 Member
Like every good Resident Evil fan... Biggest grossing in the games, but a ghost town in the movies.
TheAmazingSpiderMan
Member
They need to make the movies actually scary instead of what they’ve done with the last few.
NeverYouMind
Member
I can see it now...
TRAVELER - Get away from me you filthy reptiles!
DINO #1 - [GASP] It speaks!
DINO #2 - Inconceivable!
DINO #3 - I've never been so insulted in all of my life!
KuraiShidosha
Member
It's depressing that as I get older, I'm so desperate for something that feels relevant to me that I'd actually welcome a new Paul WS Anderson and crew Resident Evil movie. That's how bad things are today. I binged the whole series recently with my wife after the two of us saw the first 2 in theaters back in high school and skipped the rest, and honestly after watching Welcome to Raccoon City and seeing clips from that god awful series, it made the shitty original run look amazing. We've fallen so far in such a short time it's horrifying. Everything after 2015 is corrupted to the core. It just feels all so wrong, gaming, movies, TV, music all of it. The world we grew up with no longer exists and it's been replaced with something deplorable.
March Climber
Member
The entire Anderson run reportedly made 1.2 billion…and this was back when movie budgets weren’t insanely bloated like they are today.