George A Romero resident evil live action movie cancelled but made documentary.

[Auriiya]

The Resident Evil Movie We Always Wanted But Never Got Is Getting The Documentary Treatment https://search.app/ApCbRhY5FB1PZ5hU9

 

[Ian Naxieas]

Interesting. That sounds like it'll be a really neat documentary. I read the script to the movie way back in the day and was not impressed. I remember other fans not being terribly impressed either, but I think it would have been the better choice in the end. x) I just read the summary for it on the RE Wiki and all I can think is why was this denied for deviating too much? Yeah he changed a lot of shit, but all the monsters from the game were present, the setting was close and it had all the characters too, though a ton of red shirts as well. As with any script, there were revisions and those were supposedly improved.

The RE film we got had, uh, zombies, dogs and a CGI Licker that looked like garbage even at the time of the film's release. Neither the characters nor locations were from the games either. It was also one of the wimpiest R rated movies I've seen. The Silent Hill movie wasn't great either, but at least that had some fun gore that earned it's R rating, even though that ran antithetical to Team Silent's specific avoidance of "showing bodily harm in too much detail" or something like that. I didn't hate the RE movie we got, at the time we didn't know what caused the outbreak in Raccoon City and that seemed to be the ultimate point of the movie, as well as the really bad "Nemesis project" line. Boy did that end up not panning out well in the second film. The Nemesis with baby blue eyes is just fucking hilarious.

Speaking of the other RE films by Paul W. S. Anderson, them not existing would have been another plus of the George Romero movie being made. What a bunch of absolute nonsense those became. Anderson is really not that great of a filmmaker, especially with a series. Event Horizon was the best thing to come from him and even that had noticeable problems. It is the best unofficial Warhammer 40k movie that's been released though. x)

Ultimately, I'm really not sure how well Romero would have done either. He did pretty much entirely create zombies as we know them, was severely awesome for casting Duane Jones in the lead role for Night of the Living Dead because of his acting ability over race in the 60s and did direct a couple other decent films (hello Creepshow), but almost everything he did after Day of the Dead (my love) was just not great, especially his 2000s output. All four of the Dead movies he made after were absolute trash. Land was probably the best of them all, but it was as subtle as a sledgehammer and the whistful "oh the zombies are just looking for a place to call home" at the end can just fuck right off. It did have a couple gore moments that made me kinda squirm at the time, so that's something at least. Who knows though? If the script was tightened up I feel he had enough talent as a director to pull it off. We'll never know.

Anyway! If you're interested in the summary of the script or even the script itself, I'll leave a link to the RE Wiki's page on it. It has the script at the end. RIP George Romero.

Resident Evil (Romero script)

The "George A. Romero script" was a 1998 pitch for what became the 2002 Resident Evil film. Half a dozen drafts were produced,[1] with one leaked online dated at 7 October 1998. The film was an ambitious, gory film very loosely based on the 1996 Resident Evil video game, though a resulting...

residentevil.fandom.com

 

[lil_thang]

cool stuff ,i look forward to when this releases and it has reminded me to check in on when the RWS doco release

 

[7eve70rd]

The name of the documentary is

George A. Romero’s Resident Evil

 

[Stingy Perry]

It’s said that Romero’s take on RE has a much more closer feel and atmosphere than the Paul WS Andeson’s version.