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Resident Evil Getting Rebooted Into a Six-Film Franchise (variety.com)
Martin Moszkowicz, chairman of the board at Constantin Film, confirmed to Variety at the Cannes Film Festival that the "Resident Evil" movie franchise is getting rebooted into a six-film franchise. From the report: The franchise was set to end with this year's "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter," which grossed $312 million worldwide after its January release, including an eye-popping $160 million in China alone. Sony helped sow the seeds of success by securing a release for "Resident Evil: Afterlife" and "Resident Evil: Extinction" in China. Based on the Capcom video game, the series launched in 2002 with Paul W.S. Anderson directing, and Anderson, Jeremy Bolt, Bernd Eichinger, and Samuel Hadida producing the first of a six-movie series. The "Resident Evil" movie franchise has earned $1.2 billion worldwide to date, making it Europe's most successful independent horror-genre movie franchise in history and the highest-grossing film series to be based on a video game.
But without Milla Jovovich I'll have a hard time getting excited.
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Why bother coming up with movie ideas when you can just keep remaking movies?
I can't speak for anyone else, but I can't wait for the remastered, re-released rebooted remaster of the anniversary edition with two extra deleted scenes Guardians of the Galaxy 14.
Anyone being excited to see yet another movies of a game that butchers both, the game story along with any movie you enjoy?
Game stories don't really make great movie stories. First, they are too short. You can do a sensibly sized game with a story that fills about 15-30 minutes of a movie. Why? Because the player fills the other hours. And any more than 15-30 minutes of story is going to bore the player who wants an engaging gaming experience first and good cutscenes later.
A movie is just cutscenes.
And that also means that they can't just be the little icing on the cake to spice things up, they have to BE the cake. Because there is no interactive part.
There is also that problem that the whole action scenes are interactive in a game. Which also means that you get away with making them a lot less intricate and choreographed because not only you cannot (since one part of the choreography is the player, who needs to be given pretty free reign to make playing the game interesting), you can simply offload the excitement part onto the player. No such option with movies where people will just passively watch the action. And that better be more exciting than a battle routine where your enemy goes through phases that you have to learn and react to them.
All that has been tried before. And so far I cannot remember a single time when it was done right. If you want to make a movie, great. If you want to make yet another zombie movie, ok. But please, find something new to write. It's boring to rehash the same old story over and over. We already know how zombies in RE work. There is no way you can make this exciting. The games aren't really getting any more exciting through the story anymore either. The story is written and done.
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"The franchise was set to end with this year's "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter," which grossed $312 million worldwide..."
If sitting in a movie theater watching Paint Dry for two hours drew that kind of revenue, we would see Paint Dry: The Other Wall filming next month. From a financial standpoint, they're never going to fix what's not broken, and clearly this recycling bullshit is what consumers want.
It's rather sad and weird that new content seems to not be drawing the revenue creators were hoping for.
I saw a headline on some entertainment website, that there are like 150 remakes/reboots in the works at Hollywood, along with a further ~250 sequels. That's not including adaptations of old comics/tv series. I'm just waiting for a reboot of the old film where a train comes toward the viewer, and then cinema can call it a day.
Even indie films seem to be running out of ideas, all the well-rated ones I've seen recently are pretty similar to what has come before and usually fit neatly into an established genre. Or else they're (seemingly intentionally) incomprehensible. Perhaps the gaps inbetween genres were filled in and no new genres can exist. The 'found footage' subgenre is essentially a retread of the 'mockumentary' subgenre, now that I think of it.
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I actually really liked the first Resident Evil - movie, the second was ok, but the rest of them I just yawned and rolled my eyes through and now afterwards I just can't recall those movies at all -- it's like I had never even seen them in the first place, which I find quite funny. Now, I have not played the games, I do not have any connection to the lore or anything, so I only watched those movies as exactly that: movies about some mutating viral zombie-thingamabob. Seeing as how exceedingly quickly the movies hit the rock bottom quality-wise I have a hard time imagining any reboots can get any worse; either they'll stay as bad, or get better.
Hollywood used to wait 30 years before recycling old movies for a new audience. Now they can't even wait 90+ days after the last movie to reboot the franchise.
Finally.
Do you realise that the Deadpool film was a reboot of the Deadpool in the X-Men Origins: Wolverine film?
They might have called the character Deadpool but that wasn't Deadpool. That shared as much with the source material as the iRobot movie shared with the Issac Asimov book or Starship Troopers shared with the Heinlin novel.
I've been rewatching Daredevil season 2 and I have to agree with all your points. Jon Bernthal as The Punisher is quite possibly my favorite Marvel character these days. In one episode Punisher goes from being tortured, to kicking everyones ass, to opening up his backstory to Daredevil. Bernthal's ability to go from badass to raging bull to broken man was incredible in that episode. Very well written, and even though The Punisher is by far the most violent, brutal killer in the Marvel TV universe, you still feel for him after that broken man scene.
Comic books have been telling (sometimes retelling) great stories for decades. At least someone is taking notice and bringing them to life.
I liked the first couple in the series. But, I wish they'd make the movies like the first couple games were...Regular cops/people trying to fight an epidemic that some lab created, fighting through it by scavenging and solving puzzles/riddles. I know that's all video game-esque stuff. But, that's why most of us loved it when Resident Evil first released as a movie, I think. I really hope they produce a new take on the movie with a different story. This drawn out plot has gone, and has been, pretty stale since like the third movie came out. I want a new plot, a different perspective at the least. That's what these damn games were built on! "Play through this perspective, and it's on to the next in the next game". All Hollywood did with the last set of movies was play on our nostalgia...and then did basically nothing new with it over several movies.
That's one way to ensure we don't get more films: start a campaign to associate muslim terrorists with "resident evil".
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Called "Biohazard" in Japan, it was a game series that was designed as if it were an interactive B-movie with its own terrible acting and cut scenes. Making it into a A-list movie is completely the wrong direction to go with that, but that's what has happened with multiple sequels and now a reboot.
I think pathetic is a more appropriate description.
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I'm not sure it was an a list movie. More of a B+.
It had decent effects, but was pretty damned campy.
No super high dollar stars either.
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I don't remember it. But if the acting was as bad as in the game, it would at least be memorable.
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I don't remember it. But if the acting was as bad as in the game, it would at least be memorable.
The movie was "really-not-very-good" bad rather than "so-bad-its-brilliant" bad.
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It was the first time I saw lasers turn into a grid and cut someone into waffle cubes.
That was a fun little scene.
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The acting was fine, but the writing/dialog was as bad as the game, to make up for it. They're really a fun watch, with reasonable action direction in most of them, and all totally cheesy. The plot doesn't really connect with the games, though - not sure why - but it's equally silly.
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3 billion people on the net
and you can only make 700 million with all that adverting and spin and such is AWFUL
lets say avg ticket of 10 bucks 70 million ...is about 2.3 % of all the people on the net
and about .93% of the world saw your movie
Your statistics mean jack shit until you compare and contrast it against the average movie, as well as another Marvel-based movie (hint: the rest of the planet are likely not Marvel comic book fans). At the end of the day, the creators of movies only really care about one thing; PROFIT. If the movie only cost $100 million to make, then I'd say they accomplished their goal.
...and im going to say that most of the cash is form 20 dollar pop n popcorn alongside the 10 dollar ticket
the reason a lot of theatres are going out of business is the very fact of the above....30-40 bucks per person to see a movie .....no thanks
On opening weekend, I can go Saturday morning before noon and catch a first-run movie for about eight bucks. If I want a snack, I'll hit the grocery store on the way to the theater and buy something for less than two bucks. It's not hard to avoid getting financially raped, and those prices haven't really changed in years. And with revenue still being measured in hundreds of millions, it sure as shit doesn't seem like popcorn makers or movie theaters are going out of business. Clearly people don't mind paying obscene prices for the experience.