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The Kahoona Burger looks at the state of the RESIDENT EVIL movie
Sigh. I'm not a real happy camper today. I don't like all this negativity a coming our way today. Ya know. The key statement below is the one about how they didn't want this to be too DAWN OF THE DEAD-ish. Well God fucking forbid that should ever happen! I mean, we ALLLLLLLLL know how TERRRRRRRIBLE that would be! I mean DAWN OF THE DEAD is only one of the GREATEST HORROR FILMS MADE ON THE FACE OF THIS EARTH and RESIDENT EVIL should pray 500 times a day and a Million on Sunday that R.E. is a pimple on the ass of DAWN OF THE DEAD! Sigh. I'm sorry. I get... Emotional when people complain about a movie possibly being like in any way a great film of yesteryear... then... act like that's a BAD THING. Here's the Kahoona Burger with the details....
In my nightly sweep of all things geeky and exciting I received an upsetting piece of news last night. You see thanks to this wonderful thing we
call the web I have friends all around the world. One place being Japan, I am a huge Resident Evil fan you see.
Well since the first time I heard that George Romero was going to direct a commercial for Resident Evil 2's release in Japan I was damn excited.
All sorts of possibilities went flashing through my heard, one being would it not be the coolest if he was to direct the movie of the game!!!
After seeing the advert, which had some slightly stinky acting but great pace and tension, I went through the roof speaking to my Japanese
friends trying to find some news. But Capcom was not forthcoming, then a couple of months afterwards they released that in fact Mr. Romero
was indeed writing a draft and going to direct.
As a wise cat and dog once said, HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY :) I was then sent a fair but unsubstantiated amount of
rumours about trouble in camp Capcom. I brushed them aside as just the usual rumours and speculating until last night!!!
A friend of mine sent me bits of press releases from various sources regarding Capcom's stance on the movie, and here I have to sadly say is
what has gone down:
Most fans also know that Capcom had, at one time, hired cult Director George Romero to direct Resident Evil The Movie, and as of recently
officially let him go.
A Capcom representative commented on their initial working relationship: "We were initially very positive over acquiring George to direct. Our
Japanese team - particularly Okamoto [Yoshiki Okamoto, director of R&D, and president of the game scenario company, Flagship] -- love's his
stuff, and we are overjoyed at acquiring him for directing this movie."
Romero directed the first Resident Evil commercial that aired on Japanese TV, but it was not shown in either the US or UK. He is best known for
his dark-humour zombie films, Night of the Living Dead (shot in black and white, 1968), Dawn Of the Dead (which takes place at a shopping
mall), and Day of the Dead (the last of the three). Romero also directed two less than spectacular films, KnightRiders and Monkey Shines. So,
why did Romero leave?
It has been speculated by an alleged insider source that his scripts just did not get any Capcom Exec's excited in the project. Several sources
close to the project said that his scripts were to zombie-ish, which I find incredibly hard to believe. I mean the game is about a Zombie
infestation after all, not some bad skin complaint that zit wash can get rid of!!!!
The source close to the project said that when they hire a new director they are going to be expecting a new approach with fresher ideas. Ouch,
that's got to hurt Romero as he basically invented the Zombie formula that the game designers said inspired them and copied to give the
atmosphere of the game!!!
As the mud kept flying, it was also stated that Romero lacked the understanding of the Resident Evil story. It seems he wanted to do radical
things to the Zombie's, that was seen by Capcom as his attempt to make a Dawn of the Dead film.
As of the present time there is no new director though Capcom his searching hard for new talent to bring life (pardon the pun) into the project :)
One of the sources stated that "Resident Evil The Movie will happen.", "It's a great idea. Okamoto is excited about it. It's got a lot of life left in
it. Though the movie will not appear in the year 2000, however. It'll probably be in cinema's at earliest in the year 2001. Resident Evil The Movie
will be produced by Constantine Pictures.
Well there's a kick in the face for the ultimate Zombie film, you see I do not think that Mr. Romero is going to be able to find enough
funding else where for his own vision unfortunately. He had a pretty good gravy train in Capcom cause they would have thrown a reasonable
amount of money at him, but alas all good things have to come to an end. Even if its before the movie is even made, DOH!!!
With the way the wind is blowing I do not see this project doing that well without a good director at the helm who has a passion for the material
when on a smaller budget!!!
I am off now to release my new Quarter pounder with cheese Zombie KahoonA Burger, a sure fire seller for my niche zombie demographic :)
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Hey, I'm first!!! So, let's all take a deep breath, exhale, and move on to greener (or more zombie-like) pastures. Like trying to stop this Death Race 3000 abortion.
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How much would Romero need to make his own zombie flick?
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Yeah, like that made any sense. Resident Evil was like an interactive Dawn of the Dead, so when the man himself is all set to make a movie based on the game based on his movies, they freak out!! Those crazy japs! And now they're remaking Godzilla! (see previous talkbacks for clarification)
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Jul 13, 1999 8:02:31 AM CDT
Come on! Let's come together over that rotting corpse...
by danito burrito
I have two names for you: Sam Raimi and Tom Savini. Do I need to remind anyone about their heaLthy admiration for the Zombie-culture? If they couldn't be involved with the project, I feel certain >from the fan perspective< that they would be supportive. If money is a problem, which is a kinda stupid excuse for not making a film from any of these people, there ARE plenty of people (comparible to the two gods of film mentioned above) who would contribute. I am uncertain of the current state of the relationship between Savini and Romero, but its been a long time. Surely they could work together again. Yeah, I'm probably just dreamin', but I sure would love to hear th'conversation that would take place if you put these three men in the same room.
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Need I remind everyone here what happens when a popular video game is transformed into a motion picture? Do the words Super Mario Bros., Streetfighter and (please) Mortal Kombat, mean anything to you? Huh?
Yes, they all had one thing in common: they sucked!
And you know why? It's easy: a video game-concept (even a really good one) cannot be translated into a movie. Period. That's why we have video games AND movies. And I for one, am really happy with that. You see, I love watching great movies and I love playing great video games, but seeing one turned into the other, can totally ruin the experience for me.
With the notable exceptions of that cool Star Wars-arcade thing and that biker game from Tron, I think it's safe to say that a great movie cannot be turned into a great game, either. Sometimes it's even downright humiliating.
A great video game is a great video game because of the way the story and the gameplay are engineered. How it's all woven together. Take Metal Gear Solid, for example. I mean, that has got to be the greatest "interactive movie" I have ever played. And it's not even based on a movie! Sure, the dialogue's crappy and the story's not that great, but hell, it's a start. Konami really gives you the feeling you are "living" an original movie, a story you haven't heard or seen before. And that's more than we can say for Resident Evil. A classic game, I admit, but to be honest, just a ripoff of Romero's Zombie-movie-work.
I don't think George Romero NEEDS a video-game concept to make a great zombie-flick. Just let him write a good script. Just let him start from scratch. He can do it.
Don't we all just want to see a good old "bunch-of-people-stuck-inside-a-building-together-fending-off-a-lot-of-evil-brain-eating-zombies" movie? I know I would. That nice feeling of claustrofobia has been gone too long, methinks. Scare us Romera, scare us shitless. We all want you to.
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yes its true that George Romero is the master of the Zombie picture and this is incredibly disturbing news that he was fired/let go by CapCom but the fact remains that the Resident Evil movie is based on a video game and past attempts at making video game movies have FAILED miserably (Super Mario Bro's) As cool as this project sounded, it was doomed to failure from the gate. CapCom is riding a VERY fine line just proposing a Resident Evil movie. With the current state of the motion picture industry and the MPAA's knee jerk reaction to the Columbine Massacre, you really have to wonder what state the movie would have ended up in had George gone "balls to the wall" gore, this attitude might have gotten George the job of director of Resident Evil, but the end product would have been SEVERLY edited to get the MPAA's new Kiddie "R" rated seal of approval in these times! The MPAA and CapCom aren't stupid, they know that this movie's target audience is clearly under 17 years of age and that the new policy of carding at "R" rated movies would have severly crippled this movies success at the box office. --McK
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From Hollywood Reporter today:
Staging his own return of the living dead, genre meister George Romero this week begins shooting his first movie in six years, the indie "Bruiser." The film stars Jason Flemyng ("Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"), Peter Stormare ("Eight Millimeter"), Leslie Hope ("First Degree") and Nina Garbiras ("Mixing Nia"). The Romero-scripted film, whose $5 million budget will be fully financed by Canal Plus, starts production this week in Toronto. Flemyng stars as a successful business executive who wakes one morning to find his face is gone. With his new anonymity, he sets out to exact revenge against his overbearing boss (Stormare), his duplicitous friend (Andrew Tarbet) and his cheating wife (Garbiras) -- while pursuing the woman he admires from afar (Hope). -
Jul 13, 1999 10:59:29 AM CDT
Why does Kahoona Burger take credit for an article that appeared
by jay g
It's there.
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Maybe it's just me (heh heh, yeah right!), but I think every video game-based movie has sucked. Well, the live action ones atleast. Look at the list so far: Super Mario Bros., Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat 1-3 (the third IS supposed to be made), Wing Commander. I think the folks at Capcom are total morons, and their zombie-franchise is going to go downhill when they hire some ex-stag film director who's biggest talent is being able to urinate for the longest amount of time. They obviously had the best person for the job, and they didn't choose him because quote "his script was too DAWN OF THE DEAD"?!? Okay Capcom, I see where you're going, I guess his script didn't carry such powerful and emotional lines as "the master of unlocking" or any of the other crap dialogue from RE. It goes to show that the folks at Capcom aren't too much smarter than their own mindless zombies.
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I actually went on PSX.IGN.COM and according to Capcom George Romero had such retarted ideas like "having the zombies wear sunglasses". Forget what I said, completely! If anybody is as idiotic as to think putting sunglasses on the zombies is funny, they need to be dragged out on the streets and shot!! Thank you.
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Can you all beleave what just happened?? I mean screw Kosovo, this is a tragity!!This should be on the 11O-clock news!!! Well Im out to watch good old directors cut of Dawn of the dead man!
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Okay, you guys saying that it would stink anyway.....lemme just tell ya.....Resident Evil CAN be done well. If it such as...."adds" to the game itself. I dunno, maybe just base the film on the second game, or make it set in the world, in a different area, THEN continue from there. It would be more mysterious, and the fans of the games wouldn't know a fucking thing. And what's wrong with a zombie in Sunglasses? What about WESKER? He wore sunglasses (all the time, actually). What if he just gets zombified, and the information just got screwed? Telling a friend, information gets jammed, and mixed up. So, who knows? Maybe Dawn Of The Dead with a couple more types of monsters (the MA-11s, sharks, plant and Tyrant would do nicely) wouldn't be all that bad for me. Now, if he made it just zombie, and one short battle with the plant or with the Hunters and took out Tyrant completely......then I can understand. They seem to want to just want something as close to the game as possible. But....I'm curious. Why the fuck does Capcom care? They had Steven D. Souza do Street Fighter, right? And that blew chunks horribly. Ugh. What I feel RE needs is also more terror than guts and blood. The game is about SCARING THE SHIT out of you. I play the game at night to get that prescence when I got five of those slobbering zombies coming towards me. 2001 release date?!?! Hell, just cancel the stoopie thing. God, I just hope they don't have S.D. Perry do it. Her novelization of the game sucked-ass. There still is Sam Raimi, Tom Savini, Dario Argento, and Steve Miner left. Too bad Fulci died. He was good with this kinda thing.
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Resident Evil and Metal Gear are definitely my favorite Playstation video games cause they not only have good atmoshere and stories but possibly good charcters. But when a video game is made into a movie it needs to take the cheese like the acting and dialogue out and make a genuine attempt at a Silence of the Lambs type thing. The reason there hasn't been any good video game or comic book movies (Dark City wasn't a comic book movie though) is because they're corny and stupid. We need great directors and writers involved in these things to make them work.
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I read about this Capcom VS Romero thing about a month ago in PC Accelerator. This is by no means a "scoop". I'll go search my old mags and some dated websites and mabye one day I'll get headlines on AICN too!
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Like most I am upset that Romero is off the Resident Evil movie. (Hey Harry! I sent this bit of info well before this guy did.) I think I know the reason that why he is off the movie. Resident Evil is not just about zombies. There are other creatures and I'm betting that Romero left them out and just wanted to do a zmobie movie. Capcom wants it to be like the game and so they want the other creatures in it. Now on to a question that has been bugging me for some time now. Why does everybody think Dawn of the Dead is the best zombie movie??? I dont get it. The movie is so campy and makes me laugh more than scared or grossed out. The makeup has to be the worst ever. Over use of the color grey makeup doesnt make a cool zombie. Last...The blood. THe blood looks stupid. Its not bright red like it is in that movie. I love Day of the Dead. I think that movie is the best one. Its more serious and the zombies look so kick ass. The gore is the best that I have ever seen! Now thats a zombie movie! Can anybody explain why everybody loves Dawn of the Dead?
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I have been looking forward to a Resident Evil movie, and to a new zombie flick by Romero. But are these two things really the same? How do we know that Capcom didn;t let Romero go for making the whole script "Jill running away from normal zombies" maybe he wrote his own movie and didn't follow Capcom's storyline. Videogame movies always fail because of the same things 1. Too much deviation from the storyline 2. Bad script after deviation 3. Bad casting.
Stick to the RE story, write it better than the game (one of the reasons my friends thought the movie was going to suck was because they thought that the smae people who wrote the RE game script were writing this one! "Look out Jill! He's insane!", "here Jill take this, you the master of unlocking should have it", "What is this? Blood? I hope this is not Chris's blood...", (next to STARS Bravo member with skin ripped off and ribs and organs exposed) "Oh my god Forrest! It looks like he was killed by a crow or something."), and get the right people for the parts. If Romero were involved it would be great, but this movie isn't just free money for him to make a new flick, it is a videogame movie. I want to see a new Romero flick, but his own movie and script. -
Just been reading the talk back and all I can say is well done!!
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Do you petty little people who slate me for my reports understanding anything about what I wrote.
As I said in my report I have been hearing lots of speculation about the project for quite some time.
But until recently it was just rumours. Also do you think that Capcom releases information to only one person in the world!!
Well DUHHHHH, no they do not, in fact my source/friend who gave me this info works for a computer game company in Japan. So please be mature and understand that more that one person can acquire the same info!!!
I am not surprised if other sites post similiar info it was an offical announcement slash interview you know!!!
christ I wish some people would just grow up. I apologise for getting annoyed but I see no end of times when harry or other reporters get slated by petty little prats!!
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Concerning allegations that Romero may have royally fucked up the script: Romero has stated in the past his script followed VERY closely to the game except that Chris wasn't a STARS member and instead just a local yokel who falls for Jill.
Romero was also rumored to be luring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar into the movie (and hey, I would have definately paid seven bucks to see Jennifer Love Hewitt get attacked by Zombies).
This is a fucking tragedy because not only is Romero off the project but knowing Capcom, they'll find some silly ass MTV video director to do it and Resident Evil will join the ranks of Super Mario Bros. Streetfighter, etc. Infact, if Antoine Fuquo gets the job, I'm going to top myself right this second. This was the only hope that a video game might finally get a decent treatment and that the genre of the Zombie flick could get the shot in the arm it seriously needs. Guess it's nuts to that now... -
I don't claim to have any special insight into the details of Resident Evil (I played the second game for an hour) but I would assume that those who own Resident Evil have envisioned a franchise that might have conflicted with Romero's vision. He'd have to stay within the guidelines of possible film sequels and upcoming editions of the game as dictated by those who own the game.
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To the individual calling himself/herself "leiahumpinewok"(nice name, by the way, really shows how intelligent you are, not!) I understand you don't feel George Romero is all that some of us think he is. That's fine. But I feel you are being just a bit too highfalutin' with your dismissal of his work as gore only with no story involved. The gory effects in his films are OVEREXAGGERATED on purpose. Why? To show the nature of violence and to prove that violence is only an extension of stupidity. You, like so many tunnel visioned "film experts", self appointed no doubt, fail to comprehend the concept that in the world of flesh eating zombies, man's greatest threat is not the zombies but himself. Now, take that type of rationale and compare it to our own world. If mankind were able to quit victimizing each other and try working together, would there be as much pain, suffering, and agony? Of course not.
Youre right in hailing the upcoming Blair Witch Project as a great direction for the horror genre, and I for one can't wait to see it. But to defame the hard work of George Romero, as well as the special effects wizardy of Mr. Tom Savini is to do not only them but all horror fans and all the hardworking men and women in the business of scaring people a great disservice. Harry is right on the money when he says Dawn of the Dead is one of the greatest horror films around,(kudos to you, Harry, old buddy). Instead of looking down your nose at this material, why don't you try sitting down and analyzing these films more closely? You would see that the acting in Dawn, for example, while not Shakespearean I grant you, is quite indicitive of the way REAL people in that situation would REALLY behave!
Finally, please don't hang the tired label of "fanboy" on me or any of the other people who appreciate this type of genre. It's an insulting slur, and worse, it is a lie. We don't sit around endlessly drooling over every little scrap of information connected with these films. Just because we hold them in high esteem(especially in this day and age when the mental midgets in Hollyweird seem to think that having teen bimbos flash their boobies and then get hacked to death equals terror) does not mean we are any less intelligent or any less profound in our thoughts and reasoning then the normal lay person.
I know my rap here may have been lengthy, but hopefully, having bared my soul to you, you come away with a better understanding of your fellow man and his interpretations of culture.
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I've read George Romero's script for Resident Evil and even though it's entertaining, Romero feels a little straightjacketed by the constructs of the video game plot and it's characters. There's a lot of action, but Romero's sociological musings (at least he has some) doesn't mesh well with the one-dimensional storyline mapped out by the game. Romero's departure is just as well - the script was at war with itself (one movie he wanted to make and one he was going to be forced to make). Romero simply needs to be left to his own devices and hopefully he'll do his own zombie flick on his own terms. The RE folks obviously felt Romero's script was too graphic and they want a PG-13 entertainment in the vein of The Mummy. (You all realize the success of The Mummy is going to damn us with years of lightweight horror bullshit.) Fine... let 'em make their dorky crapfest and let Romero get to work on Bruiser and what ever else he wants. Harsh critisism of Dawn of the Dead is unthikable to me. It's one of those rare horror flicks that marries subtext and entertainment effortlessly. That's not to diminish the accomplishments of "Blair Witch", a movie I'm sure Romero himself would love.
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OK... i don't understand this... It's quite AMAZING how roughly HALF of this "report" is taken WORD FOR WORD from the Imagine Games Report about the same thing. Check out psx.ign.com, I think they have the report there... At any rate, I just think it's dumb that this guy can copy an entire news article word for word and still take credit.
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It sucks he won't be doing RESIDENT EVIL, if only because it would have beeen his most high profile gig for quite some time. But, on the other hand, I have a feeling that Romero would have somehow tried to make RE an unofficial "TWILIGHT OF THE DEAD" sequel to his previous DEAD films, because he might not ever get the chance to film Episode 4 in his zombie mythology. Why is this bad? you might ask. Well, in relation to Romero's original zombie films FUCK RE. I mean, why the hell should some Japanese game designers cash in on Romero's legacy (though they already have with their games)?? In the pursuit of staying true to yourself, I wish someone could sort out the rights to the DEAD films (I'd heard this was a problem and why there hasn't been a 4th film yet, maybe I'm misinformed) and someone else give Romero $5 million and let him make the final fucking apocalyptic word on zombie films, closing out the series, redeeming himself for years of inactivity (granted, probably not his fault...I read an article last year in FANGO where Romero stated something to the effect that he'd run into several deals-gone-sour with several stupid-fucking-production-companies. Yeah, Romero hasn't always been THE MAN, what with MONKEY SHINES and his boring dreadful segment of TWO EVIL EYES, but for me he's been THE MAN twice (NOTLD, DAWN OF THE DEAD) and been pretty good/interesting a few other times (THE DARK HALF, MARTIN, DAY OF THE DEAD). So, he's been the MAN, he's made two bona fide classics, so he's got SOMETHING in him that promises he can do it again. This is exactly how I feel about John Carpenter: THE MAN syndrome (HALLOWEEN, THE THING) and the good but not great flicks (THE FOG, EFNY)and, with Carpenter, a longer list of failures with at least one idea/scene/sequence/character that makes you wish he had another crack at the material, rewriting it to expand on that one (or two) great element(s) that promised a classic flick (PRINCE OF DARKNESS, THEY LIVE, ITMOM, VOTD, etc etc). My long winded passionate point.......fans make a big deal about these directors because they (Romero and Carpenter and others) gave the fans a classic movie or two or three, and every time we hear they're involved in a movie we anticipate the probability and possibility of these directors matching their former achievements, or surpassing them. I hope somebody gives these guys some chances on a more frequent basis, cuz they probably don't have too many years left to try to grace us with that nugget of talent they HAVE ALREADY DEMONSTRATED THEY POSESS! Oh, and add ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 to the list of Carpenter classics! "It was the boogeyman, wasn't it?" "As a matter of fact, it was."
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I had some high hopes for Resident Evil as a movie when it was stated that George Romero was taking the helm of the project. Say what you want, but Romero is the king of zombie films - heck, he practically invented them.
What pisses me off is the alleged comments by the Capcom bigwigs saying that Romero didn't understand the RE plotline and had "radical" ideas that deviated from the plotline. Give me a break! Resident Evil is a cool game and story, but Capcom totally copied the idea from Romero's Dead trilogy (RE2 is a carbon copy of Dawn of the Dead). To say that Romero doesn't understand the RE plotline and had radical ideas (what, decent lines and a good amount of gore? they probably wanted the movie to follow the RE game script - ugh!) is the biggest slap in the face possible. I think it's quite apparent that what we will end up seeing is a watered-down version, a la Mortal Kombat, for the kiddies. It always makes me laugh that they can make the most violent games possible for kids, but they can't do the same for movies.
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Shit, this is old news, Harry. I was gonna write it in to ya, but i thought you already new. George and his shitty script got booted months ago. Thank God! Oh, and by the way...I do recall e-mailing you on just how bad an idea it was to have GR direct this film. Looks like Capcom agrees.
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I also read the IGN article and noticed the part about zombies in sunglasses, but what I read was a quote from a executive trying to cover his ass for doing this very controversial thing. The idea reffered to is obviously being taken way out of context. Who says that there wasn't a perfectly god reason for this idea? See I always thought that zombies were the reanimated corpses of humans, and you know what? Humans wear sunglasses! Yes, and I would think that if a human is wearing them when he dies and he is later reanimated he might still be wearing them. Who knows. Maybe those zombies were deap in the laboratories, and were wearing protective glasses from an experiment. The reaction that "Oh Romero was screwing up the movie by having zombies with sunglasses" is just what this Capcom dork wanted. Thats why he made such ignorant comments in the article. Capcom knows how people were excited about Romero being on this film, and nowthey know how pissed those people will be since they fired him, so theywill say anything to make themselves look better and to also maybe still get your eight bucks when this movie does come out. You don't expect them to come right out and say something like "Oh we wanted something like Armageddon meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer with a little Outbreak thrown in, but George wouldn't cooperate and wanted a zombie movie so we let him go"? Hell no.
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Everyone seems to forget that the game Resident Evil is effective because it is made like a horror movie already. A departure from the material in the game would destroy the effect and alienate the fans of the video game. Imagine the shock of the audience when Chris walks into the room to see a zombie munching on his buddy, or when Jill walks down that hallway (with the windows and the faint scratching...) There could even be one of those green guys taking the head off of one of those useless assistant characters in a single swipe. ("Yes sir!") The skin rash zombie disease is a great idea. There was a part of the game where you read a diary entry which shows a doctor steadily degenerating into a mindless zombie. The man knows he's dying and there's nothing he can do about it. Romero probably never even played this game. The Japanese buisness men are right here, stick to the subject matter.
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I think the problem is, Romero was basically using Capcom to fun another one of his movies, and Capcom didn't care for it. I thought from reading an interview with him that he was turning RE into something it wasn't. Regardless of your opinion of Romero, he was hired to ADAPT Resident Evil as a film. RE doesn't bear a lot of resemblance, storywise, to a lot of his films. It has its own story, and should probably concentrate less on the whole "zombie" aspect of things and more on the human characters who players of the game series are familiar with. That much being said, I am curious why Romero's script didn't excite them, but the crappy Street Fighter movie was made. I guess maybe Capcom is trying to keep a handle on quality now, and maintaining films as being close to the originals. I just wish Capcom would stop going with the games that are "hot", and develop the good ole properties that brought them where they are. Stryder and Mega Man X movies, done right, would beat the CRAP out of the garbage a lot of studios are putting out now.
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I've never played RE and i don't know what its about other than that it has zombies. But has there EVER been a good movie made out of a video game? Mortal Kombat? Wing Commander? i dont think so. So why should Romero waste his time on one? If there's more to RE than zombies, then maybe another script and director isnt such a bad idea. It IS possible that Romero didn't get what the game was about, the storyline, didn't really get into that world well enough with his script or whatever. Fine. This just frees up Romero to do Dusk of the Dawn, which is really what we all want to see anyway. Let him get his zombie kicks there. After all, we waited 16 years for a certain other George to release the fourth film in HIS somewhat highly-anticipated series, so isnt it about time we got a fourth installment of Dead from THIS George?
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Actually as much as I admire Romero's work, especially his zombie trilogy, the fact of the matter is that I can believe that he was fired because the script wasn't up to scratch, I mean as good a director that Romero undoubtably is (especially at creating a genuinely creepy atmosphere, a talent that most modern genre film makers sadly lack) he isn't a very good writer. Take a look at some of the scripts that he has written, such as the proposed Day Of The Dead script (not the cut down version that was eventually made), he does have great visual sense but he needs someone else to seriously polish his work and make the script a match to his intense visuals. Face it, much of his dialogue is trite, the plot progression is lacking true or intelligent momentum, the thing that saves his films (and even makes a couple of them true classics) is the visual whallop that they pack. What capcom should have done is thrown out his script and gotten someone else in to write (or at least polish) the script while keeping Romero on primarily to direct, then we'd almost be ensured a class a zombie horror flick, but to dismiss him outright like this is shortsighted and frankly stupid. Here's hoping that Twilight Of The Dead does indeed get made one day (and has a script to match it's visuals).
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Actually as much as I admire Romero's work, especially his zombie trilogy, the fact of the matter is that I can believe that he was fired because the script wasn't up to scratch, I mean as good a director that Romero undoubtably is (especially at creating a genuinely creepy atmosphere, a talent that most modern genre film makers sadly lack) he isn't a very good writer. Take a look at some of the scripts that he has written, such as the proposed Day Of The Dead script (not the cut down version that was eventually made), he does have great visual sense but he needs someone else to seriously polish his work and make the script a match to his intense visuals. Face it, much of his dialogue is trite, the plot progression is lacking true or intelligent momentum, the thing that saves his films (and even makes a couple of them true classics) is the visual whallop that they pack. What capcom should have done is thrown out his script and gotten someone else in to write (or at least polish) the script while keeping Romero on primarily to direct, then we'd almost be ensured a class a zombie horror flick, but to dismiss him outright like this is shortsighted and frankly stupid. Here's hoping that Twilight Of The Dead does indeed get made one day (and has a script to match it's visuals).
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Much though I love Romero's work - and especially the zombie trilogy - and much though I've lamented his lack of output of late, I can't help agreeing with previous comments that Resident Evil would be something of a stepback. A closing chapter to a terrific franchise that is compromised by commercial considerations. Personally, I'd rather see him secure funding for work he could put his heart into. And, although I'd rate him as probably the smartest horror director in business, I'd also love to see him taking a stab at other genres. (I thought `Knightriders' was great.) As to the question of videogames making crap movies - where the hell is `Tomb Raider'? In the hands of `Bill and Ted' helmer Stephen Herek! No offence, but his `Three Musketeers' wasn't exactly `Face-Off'. Surely having John Woo pointing a camera at Lara cracking heads would wipe any memory of `Streetfighter'. And though I concede I'm in the minority in thinking `The Matrix' a major disappointment, that astounding scene where Keanu and Carrie-Anne Moss wipe out an entire elite unit made me dribble in anticipation at the thought of the Wachowskis putting Ms Croft through her paces. Not to mention what Robert Rodriguez could do with a skin-tight green vest and a pair of Uzis. And, ideally, a hair-dyed-black Heather Graham. Or Denise Richards. Or how about a fully-animated `Tomb Raider'? (The Lara Croft Lucozade ad screening in the UK right now is a corker.) Any thoughts, anyone?
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