Resident Evil Film Series Getting Reboot

@kearneybobs: :P
and if you've not seen it in ages you know what to do!!

@kearneybobs: I think the joke is a period piece set in the future when a hollywood digested version of Resident Evil comes out. Featuring Bruce Willis. (As Barry I assume to be most likely, as he will be well into the shitty side of 50 and just need to grow a beard. That and he can nail an action one-liner)

Invisible-Echidna

@deanbmmv: damn i forgot the two of them were in that movie, haven't seen it in ages. i wish jokes were better when they are explained to you, and not the other way around ;)

kearneybobs

@Earthjade: If - if that happens - I just pray that they bring back Sienna Guillory as Jill. She was the only reason that abortion called Apocalypse was watchable.

@Ashkan.: Well judging from the description:
"is to redo the story of a special military unit who fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer..."

Yeah. That happened at the beginning of RE.

God, why can't they just do it properly? 1 person alone in a mansion with very little ammo, and a lot of slow, but durable, zombies.

@deanbmmv: lilu dallas mutlipass!!

@deanbmmv: Haven't seen that in years...

MULTIPASS

So they're rebooting a film series that strayed too far from the sources story to do another film that strays from the sources story? Riiiiiggghhht.

I realise that the Resident Evil story is B-movie cheese but flesh it out a little. Pun intended.

I'm tired of all of these reboots from a little while ago. I'm tired a lot of remakes in general because they are scraping the bottom of the barrel now (Karate Kid remake Kung Fu Kid, I'm talking about you) but what is with these reboots of movies that just came out? Resident Evil doesn't need a reboot. The Incredible Hulk was rebooted what felt like 15 minutes after it came out. I read yesterday that they want to reboot The Fantastic Four. There are also reboots of Daredevil and Planet of the Apes. Planet of the Apes!? That has already been remade and that wasn't even ten years ago. Get some fucking imagination thrown in with some originality Hollywood.

@Mancomb Seepgood: Not only is he going to be a part of it, he and Uwe Boll are going to Spielberg/Lucas it.

Invisible-Echidna

Maybe they'll get Romero to do it this time. Well, I hope so.

So the idea for a reboot that aims to bring the films closer to the source material is a...

"story of a special military unit who fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident".

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is this not a wild contradiction?

The development team of the first Resident Evil game just felt a bitch slap across each of their faces.

Invisible-Echidna

@Salen: Dead Rising.
Frank West was such a deep character... and he's covered wars you know. Though Dead Rising smacks of B-movie, so dunno about its viability.
I Maed A F1lm W1th Zomb1es!!1! could be quiet good. ( I don't know much about the game beyond name and it being a twin stick shooter. But the name alone could carry the film)

@kitsuneconundrum: NNNNnnnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooo hasn't the brilliance that was the original Highlander film suffered enough.

"There should have been only one"

noboard

@kearneybobs: Please tell me you do get the reference..Bruce Willis n Milla Jovovich have only ever been in one film.

@Shinta: The only thing in common with the DB movie and the actual series is the Dragon Balls and the character's names. If you changed those two elements, you probably would never know it was Dragon Ball.

Sounds...well...lame.

Hopefully Paul "Can't make movie-game tie-ins worth a damn" Anderson wont have anything to do with it.

Man i sure hope he's not involved. These Resident Evil movies are horrible... Sad the CGI movie was better than all 3 of them combined

Nickj360

@deanbmmv: i dont get it.... it was a joke wasn't it?

kearneybobs

@Earthjade: sounds interesting. where did you get you idea from?

kearneybobs

Can't we have a new IP movie with zombies, Hollywood? Please? I'm thinking Left 4 Dead. If it was all cool like the intro to L4D, I'm sure it would be one hell of a cool live action film.

Actually, I'm surprised no one has talked with Valve about it, or maybe someone has and they just aren't talking about it.

i like RE series :D

Maybe this time around it will actually have something to do with the games. That would be great.

Ashkan.

Here's a crazy idea...how about reboot the series to be about a special law enforcement team that gets stuck in a mansion populated by zombies?

Earthjade

i enjoyed the first movie.

there i said it.

I like the Resident Evil movie with Bruce Willis in. Din't make much sense to the game series at all, but it was a good film.

Pleeeeease don't let Anderson have anything to do with the "reboot"... can't say he's done anything decent aside from Event Horizon, which I thought was okayish.

Gary Newman

Maybe every franchise needs a restart after every 3-4 movies. Star Trek is doing it and Star wars need to do it (not the recent stuff though). Highlander comes to mind as well.

kitsuneconundrum

Redoing the story of a rogue supercomputer and calling it a reboot of Resident Evil is like redoing the story of Goku going to high school in Dragonball Evolution with a better cast of American teenagers.

Both were never a good idea in the first place and not part of the original story.

Shinta

I liked the first Resident Evil. The second was pretty dumb, and due to that, I never seen the 3rd. I likely wont bother seeing the fourth.

A reboot would be a very good thing here.

I think making an action oriented "horror" movie would be fantastic. The original Resident Evil has a great setting and the potential sequel in RE2 could be amazing. Hopefully we get something that's good in the reboot....which I can't honestly say ANY of the RE movies so far have been good at all.

@Violent St. Cannon ([k]): I damn well hope so, his screenplay for it was brilliant, it followed the games pretty accurately and didn't include made up characters. Why they chose Anderson's over his i'll never know.

@indyit: They may not play on the same team, but they definitely play in the same league.

Invisible-Echidna

I'll be interested if he's NOT involved with the reboot.

Imagine what someone like Blomkamp or opposite like Tarantino would do with it.

Do people still watch resident evil movies? After the happy friendly nemesis I kinda dropped out of the series altogether. Same when I saw the camera shoved up Leon's backside.

@Invisible-Echidna: Ok so besides Mortal Kombat I don't really like the movies Anderson's been involved in (from the ones ive seen) But I really don't think you can put him in the same category as Uwe Boll... compared to Uwe Boll, Anderson's great.

@breadtruck: exacly the same here. The first one turned me off, saw the second one only cause i hoped it would be better and stopped at that, and dont really wanna continue, but the reboot might get me re-interested.

kearneybobs

@deanbmmv: That joke doesn't really work. But if you're saying the Fifth Element has as much in common with the Resident Evil games as the RE movies have, then you're kind of right!

@RAVENKam: Wasn't that the story of the first movie? except replacing the Alice character with a special military unit who don't all die in the first 10 minutes (I'm looking at you laser corridor)? Granted there will only be 1 of them alive at the end.

In summary, I call shenanigans, this be a hoax!

"A special military unit who fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident."

Uhh, that's basically telling me the plot to the first Resident Evil movie..DONE!

Bkore

@Bergerac: You're out of your mind...

@Violent St. Cannon ([k]): I thought Romero did script the REAL RE movies of which the first was about to go into post production but was scrapped for the shit we got.

I'd rather have Boll than Anderson.

Bergerac

Makes sense, when my computer messes up, fails, has terrible errors...I reboot it. ;)

@kobeashi: Okay, Masters of the Universe would probably not be a remake of the old movie, but a new movie based off the old 80's toys/cartoon. Hopefully it would have nothing to do with the old movie aside from the name.

Also what the heck was the "original chronology" that Dark Knight didn't follow?

@Resident Diesel:
imagine maybe the guy who did midnight meat train (Ryûhei Kitamura). could be *cool*

blackestwizard

They are rebooting the series to redo the plot of the original film, which had little in common with the game???

I don't remember an out of control super computer in any RE game.

@CutmanMike: Ugh, I couldn't stand them after the first one. So ridiculous. I think I somehow ended up seeing the second one and when Milla Jovovich came busting through the church window on her bike I was like, "Okay, that's it. Never watching one of these EVER again." Seriously, how stupid was that? Did her character stand outside for a half hour building a ramp for her bike to actually jump in through that widow way up there, just to make and entrance? Seriously, it's called a door. It's a lot easier.

@deanbmmv: Dead Rising is just Dawn of the Dead, the movie was made over 30 years ago.

@dinga6969:

/signed.

They're remaking Planet of the Apes??? That's rich...a remake of a *recent* remake. Hell, I can't even rent an old movie anymore without hearing of a remake. I got Masters of the Universe off of Netflix last week, and apparently they're doing a remake of THAT!

You know, if they *do* find it absolutely necessary to do a remake/prequel/whatever, I wish they'd do us all a favor and at least not walk all over the original material. That really is what grates my cheese the most. I'm looking square in the eye of all of those "pass the torch" flicks (Indiana Jones, the upcoming Ghostbusters), or the ones that don't even follow the original chronology (Batman: Dark Knight).

kobeashi

The original RE movie fit into a nice little niche within the RE universe. The subsequent sequels however, they failed...hard.

I'd like to see them pick up after the infection has begun with the story from RE 2 or just make a movie based on the original RE 1, not the Gamecube remake.

A reboot would be good, without Anderson and Milla. Be nice if the movies actually resembled the game and not just took character names from them.

coolguyface

@puffa469:

very true, and it even appears that there is no "Master of Unlocking" in this reboot either...

I heard a rumor that it's going to be in 3-D so i don't give a shit about what the plot is going to be If you put 3-D in front of any movie i am sold! (with the exception of any film involving Jennifer Anniston or Katherine Heigle)

Countchokeula

@indyit: While I do hate Boll, go watch Postal. Shit was hilarious, just like the games.

@dinga6969: I agree with your concerns by-and-large. I'm not against remakes or reboots in general, but I am bothered when they do it without good cause. In my opinion, a remake should probably source a movie 20 years or older. A reboot should be done if the franchise is damaged in some way.

For example, as bad as the Batman franchise became, I understand why they rebooted it without waiting very long (and agree with the reboot). Likewise I imagine why they rebooted after Ang Lee's Hulk and the desire to reboot Daredevil. I'm not sure those are good ideas, though.

My biggest concern is when they seem to want to reboot for no reason other than to let them retell something they know sells well. Origin stories in particular. How many times to we have to learn why Batman is broken and what formed the Hulk? Will we ever have another Superman movie where the main baddie isn't Lex or Zodd? I think movies often get stuck rebooting because they know the general audience understands the story involved, and that's less risky than introducing characters and plots with less widespread acceptance.

Zonrith

As long as there's no Alice in it, I'll reconsider watching the so-called rebooted movie.

Ugh.

searanox

@MDX: BEST... Zombie Movie... Ever!

I have to agree with you. Give us a really big mansion and film it similar to "Night of the Living Dead" with the typical RE spin of a super monster lurking in the house.

The thrill is trying to survive and there being zombies all over the house, the plot.. simple, stay alive and try to find the source of the chaos.

Why can't hollywood do Simple anymore?
~19

Black_Ops_19

@fearing: Hot chicks fighting with super human powers fighting bad guys is the new Resident Evil sales pitch

@MurlocSniper: Spot on my friend. The games have always been about the scientists trying to cover up their own agendas.

Super Computers where so 1997.

~19

Black_Ops_19

@fearing: I was a big fan of the Michael Keaton Batmans, and I wasn't too big on how they decided to redo the Joker/Two-Face characters. The first film was cool to me because it could have still flowed with the other films up until that point.

If they did what you described for MotU, it would be pretty much identical to what this article is talking about, btw...hence why I brought it up. And yeah, hopefully it'll have more to do with the action figures/cartoon. The old movie is pretty cheesy-cool from the day, but I wouldn't want a repeat of it ;)

kobeashi

By reboot, do you mean a prequel? Or by reboot, do you mean a completely unrelated franchise being branded Resident Evil to make investors rest easy?

I'm perfectly happy to make dry, sarcastic remarks about either one.

Not huge on my resident evil lore, right, but this seems to me to be a reboot of the movie franchise as its own entity, rather than a reboot of the franchise AS game-made-movie.

If I was giving out the simoleons I'd back the 2nd idea

MurlocSniper

Film the entire thing in a mansion please.

MDX

@TRT-X: Well, you could watch it and enjoy it as a film, since a reboot would have absolutely nothing to with your enjoyment of the current one, but to answer your question you shouldn't bother watching Afterlife because it will be terrible.

I have an idea.

How about you make a halfway decent film the first time, instead of half-assing it and then having to make another film a few years later, that also sucks?

Hollywood sucks. You would never think that the Jean Claude Van Dam Street Fighter film would be better than a remake, but it happened.

CrashBandicooter

@deanbmmv: Sorry. I knew about Fifth Element, but that reference was weak and poorly constructed at best.

So what this article is saying is I shouldn't bother watching Afterlife because in a few years it will be rendered obsolete by the reboot?

Cool. Thanks for the heads up Hollywood.

@dinga6969:

Hulk was more of a "re-quel" rather than a reboot, since they weren't happy with what they did and wanted to try again.

PROTIP: Resident Evil: Degeneration is the only RE movie.

The others are just Alice in Zombieland.

@blackestwizard: Really? You liked that movie?

Raziel66

@CutmanMike: Cuddly little fucker wasn`t he ?

@kearneybobs: Yeah, that's weird... sounds so familiar, so well received, so established...

@gdodd12: It's funny, as bad (in your typical b movie way) and convoluted the story of the games are, they are far more interesting than the story of the movies, seriously when zee hell did physic telekinesis crap come into ANY of the games?

@Invisible-Echidna: Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

@jasoncourt: Mine tries to cover it up and sends zombies to get me !

@TRT-X: You have such a weird way of thinking about movies ... 0_0. You never watched some historical fiction movie because you already knew that`s not how it happens ?

I think I speak for everyone when I say: what the fuck?

@RAVENKam:

Yeah, that does sound like the first RE movie. Which is not much like the first RE game.

gdodd12

Fuck these RE movies, why can't they just stick to source material? Can we get an original RE here? Jill Valentine wandering around the Mansion? Come on Hollywod, it ain't that hard.

Samakar

@awkner: Really, cause that movie was utter trash.

statnut

@Raziel66: I think that was the point of the movie, it's not funny in the normal sense but in the so bad it's funny way.

Then again I do have the ability to laugh at anything really....

While reading the article, doesn't it seem like it's the exact same thing as the first movie? Military people going to stop a supercomputer (red queen) that is out of control and making scientists zombies?

@DrunkAus: It took me three attempts to finish that piece of crap movie. It was about as funny as the more recent National Lampoons movies.

Meaning, not at all.

Raziel66

Oh Jesus Christ, just stick to the fucking games, is that hard enough, really now, is it?

You have a well enough explained story, and over 10 years worth of characters and character development already done for you, along with a shit ton of villains.

I think these guy are diliberately trying to Troll us all now, they must have some sort of group meeting every few months were all the douche's gather and say "Hey! So todays topic is, how can we fuck up more video game adaptions!".

D'you hear that? That was the collective *thump* of a million facepalms.

How hard is it to dump two characters in an estate and slowly build up the scare?

RE begins sounds more like they should have bought a L4D license instead.

@Zonrith: I think aside from reboots the problem is also what happens when they start getting "deeper" into the sequels.

Look at X-Men 3, Spider-Man 3, or to a lesser extent Revenge of the Fallen.

They try to fit WAY too much in and it ends up turning the movie into a mess. While Dark Knight was a good film, it essentially set the tone that from here out we must have TWO villians in each film...so once again we're going to get to a point the same as before when there's going to try and squeeze as many references as possible.

Why? Because they try to hard to please the fans instead of telling a good story. I can live without seeing every single X-Man or Autobot on the screen as long as the ones that DO show up are fleshed out.

Lol i enjoy the games a lot. But I like the movies. My friends are the same way... (Yes, I have played all of them, Zero to 5)

Astronus

@Heliophage: Yeah. Hulk was sorta weird. It wasn't really an origin story...it just sorta "recut" the original story and presetned it in the opening.

@Violent St. Cannon ([k]): Look past the horrible actors and low production values and it's easy to see that he would have made a real gem.

NeoStarr HD

If they are going to reboot, might as well just adapt the first game, like to the t. STARS going to the mansion, Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, etc.

Josh Langston

@statnut: At least it was canon trash.

NeoStarr HD

@DNinja: well if we had Boll we would only get one RE movie.

Lincolnsbeard33

@drtyfrnk: that's exactly what I was thinking. Do they not understand the concept of a reboot?

Lincolnsbeard33

Words really can't describe my dislike of Paul W.S. Anderson. I mean he keeps to get making movies despite awful reviews, so-so box office reciepts and outright hate being directed at him from franchise fans.

And his punishment? Millions of pounds, a giant house and the right to go home and sleep with Milla Jovovich.

What a prick.

@NeoStarr HD: I'll take enjoyable non-canon over stilted, awkward canon any day.

@oby: No, I enjoy historical fiction as long as it actually builds a decent story around the history. (Hence why I hated Titanic and Pearl Harbor)

But that has nothing to do with this situation. The reason I won't bother with Afterlife is because Hollywood has just told me that they are rebooting the RE movie franchise, But it's not even done yet.

Should that give me any confidence that Afterlife is worth seeing?

@dinga6969: Seems rebooting the franchise is just the round-about way for Hollywood to toss out its f***-ups so they can convince people to come see their movies again without the bad reputation they built up after thoroughly messing it up the first time.

ChrowX

...did I understand this right - they're rebooting the movie series, call it "Resident Evil Begins" (wow, who's creative juices were flowing there...?) and "redo the story of a special military unit who fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident"?

If the Resident Evil movie series really needs a reboot then for god's sake take what the game gives you, just like every Resident Evil fan wanted it to be from the beginning! I still have Romero's script lying around somewhere, maybe use that!?

And do not get Andervich on board - while I could take the first movie, two and three were absolutely disappointing.

RammyX

"The project is to be called Resident Evil Begins..."

This movie better be written and directed by Christopher Nolan and staring Christan Bale as Chris Redfield.

hopefully the reboot will follow the actual storyline more closely.

@Black_Ops_19: they did phonebooth... guy sits in a phonebooth the whole movie. That simple enough? I actually liked that movie.

ch0mpchomp

'Resident Evil Begins'? Really? Did Mr. Anderson watch 'Batman Begins' and assume he could do the same?

That's like if Michael Bay's production company (the ones who made the TCM reboot) decided to do a reboot of Friday the 13th and A Nightmare On Elm Street.

Shit. Too late.

@Strife Fox †: The biggest problem with Game and comic-based movies is that they're always a vehicle for some douche-clown to try and prove how brilliant they are for reinventing or redefining a series.

It would be too easy to just cut and paste the materials and please audiences and fans. The issue there is no one can take the credit for making the series all 'cutting edge' and 'unlike anything you've ever seen!' if they did that.

ChrowX

@RammyX: I bet they try to appease us by putting more random Resident Evil characters into this "special military unit" (as in more STARS members), but then continue to make them completely different from their videogame counterparts, related by nothing but name.

Wtf is the obsession with supercomputers too? Wasn't that the antagonist of the first movie? I'm sorry, supercomputers are not scary.

This is a reboot I might get behind. I would love to see a well done version of the game RE4 on the big screen.

gdodd12

Gah... Each time I hear something about Resident Evil and movies, I think to myself "well, it can't possibly be as lame as the last bit of news".

I haven't learned my lesson yet.

Just let Romero do it. For the love of god I bet he could write a half decent Resident Evil movie, and I'd bet it would be better than the three that are already out.

will the whole thing be filmed with steady cam over the shoulder?

trevortibble

@Bricked: I loved the novels, I OWN THEM ALL! :)

Mad-Hobo

@RammyX: I read romero's script a while ago and it wasn't very good. My issue with the resident evil movies besides the director was the fact that I hated Alice's character AND she was the focal point of the whole series. I guess that's how it is when your husband's the director and producer of the films. I think the books by SD Perry would have been a better source material to go by. The books did a great job of balancing the puzzles and action in a believable way.

@Asbestos_Underwear:

IfF they got S.D. Perry to write the script for a movie based on the first game, it might actually be good. The nice thing about the novels is you can tell the author actually played the damned game.

Bricked

@LuckyAoi:

At least Uwe Boll's antics are amusing to watch.

Bricked

I'd rather the movies stayed in the same universe as the games. Would mind seeing a movie about some UBCS guys sent in to retake a facility only to have to fight a Tyrant or something at the end. A movie about some of Hunk's missions ending with the mission to secure the G-virus would be cool.

Or a movie based on Outbreak would be nice too.

Bricked

@CrashBandicooter: Don't blame Hollywood, blame all the mouth-breathing asshats that pay money to see this crap.

yargh

@RammyX: These movies are fucking trash, I might even go so far to say the worst franchise of films ever. If I had friends who paid to see any of these films, I'd punch them in the groin.

One bad film is acceptable, but four is completely ridiculous. Mila Jovovich can't act and her hack husband can't direct.

yargh

@Asbestos_Underwear:
I hate reboots.
-Francis

Oh God. Please. Stop.

DRaGZ

I saw a rumor that seemed pretty official that Jensen Ackles, Dean from Supernatural if anyone watches the show, will be playing Leon Kennedy in a Resident Evil movie. Whether that means the fourth in this series or in the reboot, I don't know though. Would make more sense for the reboot since Leon is dead in the movie series, but when has sense ever come into play for Resident Evil, right?

Dr. Horrible

Batman Begins...no one?
...
Meh, anyways I love RE Movies...

What movie is that picture from?

"Resident Evil Begins"? It also sounds like they're rebooting it to tell a similar story :S Hopefully they will reinvent it rather than just remake it.

When I read this I immediately thought "April Fools!" But it's a bit late... Or really early, depending on your perspective.

That sounds even worse than the original shitty story...

So they are going to do a "reboot" with the same exact plot of the first movie, which is only related to the games by the fact that there is a zombie-creating virus in it? No thanks.

@Dr. Horrible: Leon has never been mentioned in the movie series so he's neither alive nor dead.

@RammyX: Romero's script was garbage. Seriously. And I love that man's work. So many things were not like the game, and what was added seemed tacked on. And hell, many elements ended up in Paul W.S. Anderson's version anyhow.

emorottie

The story of the reboot sounds exactly the friggin same as the first stupid movie!

Ockman

Less of the Alice character the better

How about you just make Resident Evil like oh say Resident Evil? At least they realized "Wow we have killed off the actual source material characters. In turn we also made some massive god character that doesn't really need any supporting cast." I don't expect movies to be a one for one translation of Book, comic, video game or whatever, but you should not drop the core elements or make them so unimportent that it is simply in title only. It would be annoying to go and see a direct translation but still.

@DNinja: Hey, with Boll, at least I can laugh.

@Lincolnsbeard33: Yeah, but it would be one of the worst movies ever made rather than just mediocre.

@Kyosuke_Nanbu:

In one of the scenes in Apocalypse, there's a closeup of a newspaper stating that he was Jill's partner, and that he was killed.

Checkout the link, you'll find the above mentioned in the trivia section, along with a link to an image of the newspaper from the flim.

[residentevil.wikia.com]

@noboard: I am immortal! I have inside me blood of kings!!!

@DrunkAus: Maybe you're just drunk.

They already made a good resident evil movie, its called Dawn of the dead.

I sure hope they market it as a zombie movie that's based on a zombie themed suvival horror game, then have everyone die in a lazer filled hallway in the timespan of 7 minutes. That would be awesome.

murderface_

@kobeashi: I loved the Tim Burton Batman movie, it's what got me into comics, but the new ones are more faithful to the source material I'd say so the "chronology" is actually a lot more accurate. Also after Schumacher ran the older movies into the ground there wasn't much else they could do.

@Kyosuke_Nanbu: In a newspaper article in the second movie, it says the Leon was Jill's partner and that he died. Its a really small, subtle mentioning though, so I can't really blame you for missing it though.

Dr. Horrible