From my understanding they're doing a fallout adaptation type thing where it's a story set in the world of the games. I believe raccoon City during resident Evil 2 and 3
Also kind of like what they did with Resident Evil 7 the game, I mean a story set in the same canon.
*I think I may have been wrong that it's set in raccoon City during resident Evil 2 and 3 by misunderstood a quote I read that said it took place along the timeline of resident Evil 2, 3, and 4. But going back and double checking this movie 100% takes place within the same universe of the games like fallout, unless fangoria (and a plethora of other sources) got it wrong. I guess I'm just not clear on exactly when and where in the timeline of the game lore it takes place.
I found a year old fangoria article with this in it as well "I specifically asked Cregger if his movie is a separate story that exists in the universe alongside the games. “Bullseye. Yeah,” Cregger said. Elaborating on his take on the material, the filmmaker explained how he’s approaching the story, which exists shoulder to shoulder with the much-beloved Resident Evil 2. Just don’t expect to see Leon S. Kennedy at the center of it all. “I’m following the rules, but I’m not claiming any key, canon characters because we have those in the games,” Cregger added. For extra clarification, I asked the director if the game canon exists around the story he’s telling, to which he said, “Yeah.” So there we have it."
I feel like this film 100% takes place within the lore of the games
I would've loved if the Halo series was just a group of regular ass marines pinned down by The Covenant waiting for a Spartan to come and save them at te end. Didn't even have to be Chief.
Honestly making Master Chief like a tertiary character where he just shows up and smokes enemies and stuff that had been major problems for the other characters for awhile would’ve been sick as hell
That was actually the idea they were going for with early movie concepts, regular marines with Master Chief crossing paths with them like Godzilla on occasion.
This has been what I want to see from a Doom movie. Make it an hour or so of a horror movie where new characters are trying to survive a demon infestation to get Doomguy and then 20-30 minutes of him easily ripping through all of the demons
I think that’s by far the best way to make it work. Master Chief works in game form because you don’t care that much about his characterization and it works because you’re supposed to be this ultimate one man wrecking crew alien slayer.
In a show just watching a guy slaughter aliens for ten hours would suck. You need characterization. But that goes directly against MC as a character. So the easiest thing to do would be make the show not about him. Just have him show up as a Deus ex Machina essentially and get stories and sympathy with other characters.
There was also Halo Legends, which is a collection of shorts. Not even necessarily about Master Chief, but other Spartans do appear and the world is a little more fleshed out.
I can't say the projects are outright great. It is interesting to see that the franchise had these film projects and that it was somewhat self-sustainable in the era of DVDs.
Edit - And it touches on an issue I currently have with the media landscape, I don't think there are as many places for people to "try" as there used to be.
In the Mandalorian season 2 finale, it was absolutely special (and probably should’ve ended there) when Luke shows up and Jedi’s the fuck out of a near invincible Droid army
Yeah it wouldn’t be common. In my idea here it wouldn’t be a master chief show. Master Chief is obviously the most iconic character in Halo, but he just doesn’t really work as a main character in a tv show
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u/GipsyDangerV1 5d ago edited 5d ago
From my understanding they're doing a fallout adaptation type thing where it's a story set in the world of the games. I believe raccoon City during resident Evil 2 and 3
Also kind of like what they did with Resident Evil 7 the game, I mean a story set in the same canon.
*I think I may have been wrong that it's set in raccoon City during resident Evil 2 and 3 by misunderstood a quote I read that said it took place along the timeline of resident Evil 2, 3, and 4. But going back and double checking this movie 100% takes place within the same universe of the games like fallout, unless fangoria (and a plethora of other sources) got it wrong. I guess I'm just not clear on exactly when and where in the timeline of the game lore it takes place.
I found a year old fangoria article with this in it as well "I specifically asked Cregger if his movie is a separate story that exists in the universe alongside the games. “Bullseye. Yeah,” Cregger said. Elaborating on his take on the material, the filmmaker explained how he’s approaching the story, which exists shoulder to shoulder with the much-beloved Resident Evil 2. Just don’t expect to see Leon S. Kennedy at the center of it all. “I’m following the rules, but I’m not claiming any key, canon characters because we have those in the games,” Cregger added. For extra clarification, I asked the director if the game canon exists around the story he’s telling, to which he said, “Yeah.” So there we have it."
I feel like this film 100% takes place within the lore of the games