RESIDENT EVIL 7 has served as a template to get the reboot of the RESIDENT EVIL movie series started. Dark Horizons reported that Greg Russo revealed that a draft of the screenplay that is already complete!
Over the years, the RESIDENT EVIL video games were really losing their flavor until the 7th installment came along. They dropped the focus on action and went back to its roots in horror! Not that the games weren’t scary anymore, but RESIDENT EVIL 7: BIOHAZARD really changed things up by pumping up the horror atmosphere, which made the game so much more fun. You get to know a whole family of possessed Louisiana swamp folk, and who they were before “the evil” came. This made room for an emotional/psychological horror aspect which the previous games were lacking at least to this level we saw in RE7. Still, I feel that they could have taken that aspect a step even further, but what they have done already was a great improvement on the series.
Russo is also the scribe for the upcoming MORTAL KOMBAT reboot. His IMDB history appears thin, but he seems to have a lot going for himself right now.
“Obviously, I’m a huge fan of the franchise so to work on that was a lot of fun. And they’ve made six films before so when you come back to that and reboot it, you wanna do something different and not just rehash. For me it was very clear-cut that I wanted to go back and make it scary again like a horror film in terms of the classic James Wan style so that was the pitch, going back and looking what made the games scary in the first place so yeah, Resident Evil 7 was a bit of a touchstone for my draft.”
No word yet of when we’ll see this new RESIDENT EVIL movie, or if Milla Jovovich will have any part.
Fun fact: while the games were called RESIDENT EVIL in the states, they were called BIOHAZARD in Japan. The US release for the 7th installment is called RESIDENT EVIL 7: BIOHAZARD, while the Japanese version is called BIOHAZARD 7: RESIDENT EVIL.
~Big Eyes
