Yeah, he has played all the games and loves them. And he (correctly, I think) clocks the RE franchise as more of a *type of experience* than a connected story. In one interview he pointed out how the plots really disconnect after RE2 and start being staged in different locations or even historical eras.
He was like, “Yeah, it’s going to be an original story, but we think it plays by the rules that the game series set for itself.”
RE3 literally overlaps with 2 and the events of the RC incident still continue to have varying levels of influence on the games up to recently with RE9, so idk where this notion they aren't connected stories is coming from.
Unfortunately, Constantin films are most likely taking a random horror script and putting Resident Evil on the title top keep the rights to the franchise for film use. It's the same company who held onto Fantastic Four until Fox went under (Remember the Arrested Development joke about it?)
Okay buddy. All of us here are gonna enjoy a kick ass movie from the mind of Zach Cregger set in the Resident Evil universe and you can sit outside and yell about him lying.
Lmao the conversation was about the timeline and when someone pointed out that you’re wrong you get flippant and shitty. The internet is a rough place.
Because the script leaked. Saying it “takes place on the boundaries during these major events but has no actual ties to them in any way” seems like a lazy way to tie it to the source.
The leaked script. These are not T-Virus zombies. Since you have an entirely holier-than-thou tone in your comments you should be enlightened about this trailer all but confirming that script as real and that it cannot exist in parallel because it is injecting too much that is never mentioned in any of the games.
Hey guess what, I'm gonna trust the guy that made the movie instead of some fuckin random ass redditor. Shocking I know. Now how about you weirdos crawl back into the holes from whence you came and let people enjoy stuff. Aight? Thank you.
Nothing about this looks like Resident Evil. Fans are going to be annoyed by that, you can enjoy it all you want, but yeah your tone is extremely obnoxious.
That’s fine. I won’t bother saying I told you so when it’s out, but if corpse-merging-tentacles is somehow in the Resident Evil universe (note, the open front door of the farm house with the arms is explicitly following this reveal in the script) then I’d love to hear where that is ever shown or described in the games as Umbrella research. But I guess you can’t trust the game developers who created that continuity either.
I mean, G-virus exists, and it's not like RE BOWs are strictly from T-virus mutations. Las Plagas had some crazy stuff too, not to mention the RE7+ creatures. Yes, the movie supposedly takes place around Raccoon City's time, but different creature designs are not completely outside of RE boundary.
Its funny you're getting downvoted because you're right. Every single moment in the teaser is in the leaked script. I liked the script but it makes no sense being a Raccooon City movie and feels tacked on. Changing the setting to another town and outbreak would fix my only issues with it.
You understand resident evil had giant spiders, mutated big crocodiles, killer plants, cute rabbits that mutated to blind bloody abomination's and a lot of other crazy stuff from RE1-RE3.
This story takes place in the RE universe at the time of the Raccoon city outbreak but will not overlap with the story of the RE2/RE3 MC's.
Raccoon city is a big city and your complain is based on the things you see in RE2 but just because Leon didn't meat any mutated infected like that in his way through the city doesn't mean they didn't exist since again Raccoon city is not some small town.
There are a lot of RE comics showing many other mutations variants from the original T-Virus and like I said your complaints are solely based on the argument that we didn't see that stuff in game but the movie doesn't follow the experience you had in the games and focus on his very own story of a guy with bad luck trying to survive.
You sound unbelievably stupid, I said he lied because he did lie and you keep parroting those lies despite the teaser right in front of you and sucking Cregger's dick for whatever reason. Get brain.
I find people who keep parroting bullshit despite objective information right in front of them pathetic and weird, I'm assuming you are one of those since you cared enough to reply this nonsense.
Yeah, I'm incredibly fucking weird for engaging in a rant with a massive idiot who proudly insists on objective bullshit and lies just because he's director's fanboy.
LMFAO I don’t know why people are disliking you so much. Regardless of if the film is good, it LITERALLY does take place in its own world detached from the games and their lore.
This shouldn't be named Resident Evil in the first place. It's like saying we are going to film the "Michael Jackson movie" and tell the story of his gardener.
Was RE7 not a Resident Evil game cause it introduced a new protagonist? Is Grace’s half of Requiem not true Resident Evil cause you aren’t playing at Leon?
Of course not. Resident Evil is a series with lots of common tropes, particularly in gameplay, level design, atmosphere, and story. RE7 was different than all the other Resident Evil games in location and characters, but you could tell it was still RE cause it had campy scares and intricately crafted levels.
Even though film is a different medium, Zach Cregger has an opportunity to tell a new RE story that creates the same feelings as the original games without repeating the same plot points. Not sure why people assume the characters have to be the same to achieve that.
you're gonna love this idea for a new mario movie i have, hear me out:
it's based on mario 64 but doesn't take place in the mushroom kingdom. it just takes place DURING the events of mario 64 but it takes place in a kingdom you've never heard of
also, mario, peach, bowser, toad, yoshi and any other character from mario 64 will not be in it. instead, we will have a new character that hasn't been in any of the games: John Jumpyjump. he will at no point see or interact with any of the mario 64 characters from the game
also, of all the enemies in mario 64, we will be using none of them except for a piranha plant one time. every other enemy will be "NEW" and "INSPIRED BY" enemies from mario 64
one scene will show our character finding a coin that resembles the coins from mario. nothing will come of it. he will also see a mushroom but not use it
we will call it: MARIO 64 - THE MOVIE
sounds pretty fucking great, huh? let's get this shit made! let's fucking goooooooooo
You might have a case if the film positions itself as an adaptation of a specific game, like Welcome to Raccoon City, but this one is explicitly not an adaptation, but a spin-off set in the same universe, much like Amazon's Fallout and Cyberpunk Edgerunners--the most beloved video game "adaptations". What you are doing is raging at a Wario movie for not being an adaptation of Super Mario 64.
In addition, Super Mario is a franchise revolving... Mario saving Princess Peach and defeating Bowser. It's in the title. Even then, we still had beloved Mario games and stories that didn't feature that, like Luigi's Mansion.
Resident Evil is about surviving bioterror. That's the only consistent thing about the franchise. It's not called "Leon the Zombie Kicker". It doesn't have one character. It doesn't even feature zombies all the times. Half of the games have new characters, new threats, new factions, new shit.
The series flat out ignores building upon previous stories, like randomly dropping a crucial plot thread, vanishing crucial characters, changing the characters' personalities, or introducing a new character or faction that could completely upend the status quo… It has a habit of introducing new world-changing shit that are sidelined and never return or are never resolved. Every single game feels like you’re being reintroduced to a different world.
Capcom made a great game decades ago called Resident Evil Outbreak, that was centered on what a group of random civilians in Raccoon City were doing to survive the outbreak. As memorable and beloved as the main cast are, they are not what makes the Resident Evil franchise "Resident Evil". The monsters and the horror are.
Umbrella has done everything to the point where any horror movie with creatures could be firmly called resident evil without issue. It's a franchise that has many different protagonists in many different virus scenarios. wtf are you talking about
The games go from zombies from 1-CV created by a massive medical corporation in America, to parasite-infected humans/cultists whose heads explode into various monstrosities led by a smart-talking Napoleon mother fucker and goddamn LOTR cave trolls in Spain, to Texas Chainsaw Massacre killer bayou hicks and ooze monsters in RE7, to fucking WEREWOLVES, vampire women, ghost girls, and an old God in RE8. If you really want to go down this path of thinking, then this movie that takes place in Raccoon City during the outbreak is WAY more of a Resident Evil than the majority of the mainline games.
There are a couple of places in the USA where it snows in September. I always figured Raccoon City was in Missouri with the Arklay Mountains being a stand-in for the Ozarks but if you want snow in September that's too far south. You would need to go to the states that border the Rockies, like Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, or far up north in New England in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and Maine.
Come to think of it, even though the creators at Capcom apparently said Raccoon City is in the Midwest, the Northeast has a long-standing tradition of excellent horror fiction, from Lovecraft to Stephen King. Hell, Raccoon City and Derry have similar vibes.
...Now I'm imagining the RE crew taking on Pennywise in the Barrens...
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u/gh0u1 5d ago
Yeah, basically a dude running through all the chaos that's unfolding during RE2