Resident Evil Director Wants to Make Movies and Games Together

[dochmbi]

Well, there are a few good games which are based on movies: Goldeneye for the N64 and the recent Ghostbusters: The Video Game come to mind.

 

[TylerC]

And MGS4! Well...MG games in general.

Someone stop this man from making an abomination out of Buck Rogers.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

It's a general rule that movies based on games suck and games based on movies suck. Sometimes both suck.

Besides, don't they practically make games at the same time as big movies anyway? I remember the Avatar game being out at the same time as the movie.

Well there are a few acceptions for games based off movies that were good, also in the newest Resi film is it gonna continue from the third one? Cause if this new/old guy is making it (he did the first not but the second or third, that's what I'm getting from this)

 

[Treblaine]

Paul WS Anderson says he likes video games as justification for is continued diabolically shit films.

Well I like French food, that doesn't mean I am a masterful French Chef.

I'll tell you what Anderson is, a producer's best friend, he will make films based on popular game franchises, quickly cheaply and shoot them for the trailer. Easy money.

If Capcom have just a single ounce of sense left in them then they'll never EVER let a mindless hack like Anderson anywhere near any one of their video games licences. He can't even do movies, how the fuck is he going to be at video games which he has NEVER even come close to be involved in the production of.

Also, bull-fucking-shit he is a fan of Resident Evil, his films have virtually nothing to do with the franchise except for a few characters being vaguely superficially similar. He's nothing but a preppy douche who is more influenced by The Matrix than any video game.

 

[ResiEvalJohn]

Paul WS Anderson says he likes video games as justification for is continued diabolically shit films.

Well I like French food, that doesn't mean I am a masterful French Chef.

I'll tell you what Anderson is, a producer's best friend, he will make films based on popular game franchises, quickly cheaply and shoot them for the trailer. Easy money.

If Capcom have just a single ounce of sense left in them then they'll never EVER let a mindless hack like Anderson anywhere near any one of their video games licences. He can't even do movies, how the fuck is he going to be at video games which he has NEVER even come close to be involved in the production of.

Also, bull-fucking-shit he is a fan of Resident Evil, his films have virtually nothing to do with the franchise except for a few characters being vaguely superficially similar. He's nothing but a preppy douche who is more influenced by The Matrix than any video game.

I second this! I was going to write something very similar, but yeah, I'll just add that I hope he gets in a car accident so that he can never make a shitty movie off of something I loved ever again. I only liked Mortal Kombat because I was like 7 years old at the time.

 

[Ldude893]

Uwe Boll was enough. We don't need another one.

I take that back. Paul W.S. Anderson made the best Video game-Movie adaption in history (Mortal Kombat), but his recent films were horrible and only had 50% to do with the videogames.

 

[William Dickbringer]

well everybody should look on the bright side at least he puts effort when it comes to his video game movies unlike some people *looks at uwe boll*

am I the only one that has respect for the resident evil movies I mean sure it went off on it's own way but I still like it

(I feel the hate already)

 

[Kinguendo]

The movies suck... why cant they use the brilliant story already created for the games?

All the movies consisted of were: Naked woman in shower, nipple shot, lightning... lightning again, tense music, people with guns, dead people, dead people, not so dead anymore people, zombies, zombies, crazy AI child?! Zombies, zombie dog- Oh no never mind, they are dead. Zombies, zombies, oh no someone died and is now a zombie, zombies, train, licker for about 5 seconds and kills the only likable person in the entire film just as you thought "My word, a character I like is actually going to survive to the end?!", The End... Fantastic... really captured the Resident Evil plot and feel... great.

2nd they decided to mix it up a bit by moving where the licker turned up and intoducing the Nemesis.

3rd one got crows and a stupid version of William Berkin... So they took something that appeared REALLY early in the 1st game and the main enemy from the 2nd WHICH, by the way, (for me) is one of THE greatest video game villains of all time.

 

[Trivun]

Since I'm a gamer, aspiring game developer, and amateur filmmaker, I think this is a good idea. I, unlike most, have an apparently unique ability to be able to watch video game movies without feeling the need to constantly compare them to the source material, and as a result am able to enjoy things like the Residnet Evil films without being an elitist douche about it. And Paul W.S. Anderson has admitted in the past that he's an avid gamer, and that he played through the Resident Evil series before making the films and looked at them from a fan's viewpoint as well as a filmmaking viewpoint.

So he had both aspects to look through. Most, not all, but most of the people who complained that the Resi. Evil films were crap were either film fans who didn't understand the games, or game fans who were pissed off that Anderson came up with a unique and different idea for the story (namely, completely different characters, namely Alice and Matt Addison) and wasn't sticking to what they thought it had to be. And that mentality stayed with them even when old favourites (like Jill Valentine, Carlos Oliveira, or Claire Redfield) showed up, and they wouldn't even give Anderson a chance. An exceptionally hypocritical and unfair move on the so-called 'fans' part.

So what Paul Anderson says here, I agree with. I think that there is definitely scope for games and movies to be united, and he is a great bet to help that out. We saw Heavy Rain take a similar sort of concept, in a way, and that was at least moderately well recieved. However, again speaking as both aspiring developer and filmmaker, I do see some difficulties. It will be tough to break the old mentality that films and games are completely seperate and can't coexist as a unified artform (sadly, a mentality I've seen in this thread a lot, and exceptionally unfair and ungrounded, Uwe Boll's travesties aside). And it'll be tough to figure out a good way of being able to unify games and films, though again, Heavy Rain had a good crack at it that worked reasonably well. I guess only time will tell if what Anderson says can be justified.

 

[Flight]

Although I enjoyed the first two movies in spite of the raging Sue that Alice became in the second film, I can't believe the creators of them to actually be fans of the games, considering how the characters from the video game were shunted aside in favor of a boring prat of a character.

... I honestly hope he's not even remotely suggesting that he's going to take part at all in the production of future Resident Evil games.

I very much agree. It could be worse, though; it could be the folks who are (unfortunately) making the Shadow of the Colossus movie.