Netflix Reportedly Developing Live Action Resident Evil Series

[Doctor of Autism]

If they at leats let Reddick wear the shades and trenchcoat in the trailer he'd at least look like a cosplayer. No thank you. He'd be a good choice for the character if they actually let him be the character.

Yeah like raceswapping a character is honestly fine as long as they stay consistent to the original characters personality, like the only time it really isn’t fine to do that is if their race is essential to their identity but Wesker doesn’t fit that bill anyway.

The issue with most modern raceswaps is that with some exceptions, they just make the character into a completely different character usually for the worse.

As for this show however, it looks like shit and I hope it’s worse than Welcome to Raccoon City in the so bad it’s funny kind of way.

 

[Power Glove]

Looks garbage. It actually looks WORSE than that "Welcome to Racoon City" movie....

That movie was mindless fun actually, for me at least to some degree. I can't say I hated my time spent watching it.

 

[Klokateer636]

Yeah like raceswapping a character is honestly fine as long as they stay consistent to the original characters personality, like the only time it really isn’t fine to do that is if their race is essential to their identity but Wesker doesn’t fit that bill anyway.

The issue with most modern raceswaps is that with some exceptions, they just make the character into a completely different character usually for the worse.

As for this show however, it looks like shit and I hope it’s worse than Welcome to Raccoon City in the so bad it’s funny kind of way.

Thing is, Wesker is dead.

And he doesn't exactly look like a zombie.

So either they'll use the Ada Clone storyline from 5 to bring him back (which honestly should be off the table because his death was a pretty good end point for him), or this is before RE5, which wouldn't make sense because RE5 takes place in like 2008 or something and this new show is in 2022.

So i fully expect this series to be a honking load of shit, and that's without the race swapping.

 

[Oats12345]

Yeah like raceswapping a character is honestly fine as long as they stay consistent to the original characters personality, like the only time it really isn’t fine to do that is if their race is essential to their identity but Wesker doesn’t fit that bill anyway.

The issue with most modern raceswaps is that with some exceptions, they just make the character into a completely different character usually for the worse.

As for this show however, it looks like shit and I hope it’s worse than Welcome to Raccoon City in the so bad it’s funny kind of way.

Knowing the actor and what kind of characters he plays. I could see him playing a cool Wesker. But the problem is the advertisement makes it clear that their not going that route. So it's not the actor in my opinion but the writers shitty script for Wesker.

 

[Registration]

the funniest shit is when the most Biohazard it ever was was the 3DCG movie with the kung fu gun fighting, rather than the live action ones

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

Yeah like raceswapping a character is honestly fine as long as they stay consistent to the original characters personality, like the only time it really isn’t fine to do that is if their race is essential to their identity but Wesker doesn’t fit that bill anyway.

The issue with most modern raceswaps is that with some exceptions, they just make the character into a completely different character usually for the worse.

As for this show however, it looks like shit and I hope it’s worse than Welcome to Raccoon City in the so bad it’s funny kind of way.

I disagree with this. Somewhat. I'm with Eric July on this boat.

With the amount of skin colors and personalities that exit in Hollywood, I'm absolutely certain they could find an Albert Wesker that fits the appearance we've known him for. And this doesn't dissuade from the abilities of the minority actors' ability to fit the mold of the character, but especially in modern times, it seems more and more evident that the entertainment is willing to make these raceswaps specifically because they want black/Asian people in it hidden in the guise of "they're the best person for the job" as they claim or "nothing changes if they changed races", otherwise, why would they make that change? Why would they raceswap historical characters or animated characters? Look at the whole Percy Jackson - Annabeth debacle.

And this is from someone that really likes Lance Reddick's work in something like The Wire or John Wick.

There are few occasions where this is fine: if there's really no other option then to cast someone that isn't white, when it's not specified in the source material (like Liet-Kynes's skin color), or if they're really, really, really the best person for the job. Someone mentioned The Shawshank Redemption, and I really loved Morgan Freeman's performance there because it elevated the story moreso than the book did. And I would say Michael Clarke Duncan's Kingpin in the Daredevil film or the black Catwoman in the 1960s since they were clearly having fun doing what they were doing, given the material they had.

But those were earlier examples and few in between. I can't look at a race/genderswap nowadays and think that it was not done just to fit some quota regardless of the talent of the actor. Under this logic, white people could just be eradicated from the face of entertainment and the people in charge could just say "the fit the mold/personality of the character and they're the best candidate for the job".

If you're having trouble finding actors that have the same pigment as the characters they're adapting, it might be time to create new material, a department that's extremely lacking today.

 

[Munchingonfish]

When it comes to shit like this, I actually don't mind race swaps. Not because I don't think it's condescending or that the producers aren't hypocritical racists, but because it makes these shows even more removed from the source material. In turns, these productions become really easy to ignore. That first teaser had so little to do with Resident Evil that you could change the title (and edit out the Umbrella logos) and it would easily pass as some other zombie show.

The reboot that pissed off fujos by casting a pajeet as Leon didn't even get this kind of immediate blowback and that movie flopped.

This garbage is dead before arrival.

 

[Schmeckel]

While I'll still watch it, both out of morbid curiosity and my enjoyment of most all things zombie, this show looks absolutely stupid. Raccoon City looks like fuckin' Midgar. That hardly says "small Midwestern town."

 

[A-Stump]

While I'll still watch it, both out of morbid curiosity and my enjoyment of most all things zombie, this show looks absolutely stupid. Raccoon City looks like fuckin' Midgar. That hardly says "small Midwestern town."

Raccoon City isn't a small midwestern town. It has, among other things:

A Subway

Rather large zoo

A football stadium where thousands had attended a game

University

Police force estimated to be around 100 members, give or take. Not counting SWAT personnel or S.T.A.R.S. members.

Anything post RE2 practically retconned any chances of it being a small city. RE3 stated a population of 100,000 dead after the missile strikes but we don't know if this means estimated survivors or the population as a whole...either way I see it as being the stated population before the boom following Umbrella's developments.

 

[Soycast Guy]

Yeah like raceswapping a character is honestly fine as long as they stay consistent to the original characters personality, like the only time it really isn’t fine to do that is if their race is essential to their identity but Wesker doesn’t fit that bill anyway.

The issue with most modern raceswaps is that with some exceptions, they just make the character into a completely different character usually for the worse.

As for this show however, it looks like shit and I hope it’s worse than Welcome to Raccoon City in the so bad it’s funny kind of way.

Well the worst part is that Netflix is claiming this is canon to the main resident evil timeline, so how the fuck Wesker is black is beyond me. Didn’t he die? Did he get cooked in the volcano and turn into a black man? Did uroboros mutate him that badly? Did he inject melanin into his body? In a separate timeline it could be fine to cast Lance as Wesker, but this is autistic.

That being said though, even if they say it’s canon I won’t say it’s canon. Fans can say what they think is canon.

the funniest shit is when the most Biohazard it ever was was the 3DCG movie with the kung fu gun fighting, rather than the live action ones

That’s because capcom made the animated movies. Anytime they let someone else touch their property it goes to shit.

Absolutely hilarious movies too. So much cheese and a lot of fun.

 

[Tootsie Bear]

This looks like the first movie if it originally had child actors instead of adults and was very cartoonish.

 

[Mao Hao Hao]

I made it through episode 1 and wow, all I can say is, it may be the worst adaptation Resident Evil has had. The older movies at least had action and interesting enough characters going for them, and the recent movie (Welcome to Racoon City) was low budget in looks and designs, but had some heart to it and at least tried to feel like it was connected.
The entire first episode of this felt like it was a completely different project to begin with, but then they worried about if people would actually watch it, and slapped the 'Resident Evil' title on and changed company name to 'Umbrella' and head guy to 'Wesker' and set it in 'Racoon City' to get people to watch it based on name alone.
They even managed to rip off 28 Days Later (poorly) by having Wesker's teen daughters break into the lab to 'free the animals' and accidentally release an infected dog. Instead of running, one of them actually tries to stop it attacking by holding her hand out....despite it looking rotten and clearly not normal.
It is rife with teen angst and drama, so much so, I actually stopped caring about the kids entirely as characters, which is not something you want when they are supposed to be the main ones to root for. There is a weird scene where one of them is bullied for being a vegan, and a fight happens, but its such an out of place moment (completely unprovoked, no actual reason given as to why it started, other than I guess she was sitting by herself?) that it added nothing. Also it leads to this line from Wesker when he speaks to the other girls father, which is a quote I never would have thought Wesker would say, but it exists now:

Spoiler: Why

Overall, that first episode is basically an hour I will never get back, but if you wish to watch it yourselves, go ahead, but I think I will not be watching further if that one is anything to go by. Decent effects, but the characters and dialogue are poorly done, and again, if you removed all connections to Resident Evil, it would still be the exact same show, as nothing else about it as it is now screams 'Resident Evil'.

 

[Caddchef]

Been watching the 1st ep for 5 mins and i have to say, it makes every Resident Evil film look like Citizen fucking Kane by comparison.

 

[The Doom Slayer]

"This will make people watch our show"

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

https://twitter.com/jonslongs/status/1547600277334679553

I won’t share every tweet, just particular standouts that shows just how bad the show is.

 

[Desu Mountain]

How do these things consistently manage to be worse than my most pessimistic predictions?

 

[Cringemaster Supreme]

I'm on episode 3 right now. This show is the least Resident Evil that Resident Evil has ever been. It's pretty much a CW version of 28 Days Later with a different title. The zombies are angry runners in a lawless England. The outbreak happened because Umbrella was testing botched happy pills on animals, which get released by Wesker's vegan daughter.

That daughter is named Billie BTW. She really likes Billie Eilish's music. She dresses like her too. It's just a fictional version of Billie Elish put into a South African high school. Very Resident Evil.

The show jumps between two timelines: present day high school happenings in New Racoon City (a planned Umbrella community in South Africa) and future Mad Max dystopia in England. The show starts with Billie's sister dealing with a horde of zombies in an abandoned city, but after the first episode she's going to normal places like an old woman's apartment and a British pub. She's able to go to these unprotected places without problem or concern for zombies attacking despite billions of the world's population being zombies. Umbrella keeps showing up and killing everyone they see though without repercussions, and groups of people just hang around in open places whenever it's not just zombies that exist but also militaristic death squads randomly popping up too. This show makes no sense.

The weirdest thing is that this show makes a lot of random references to porn. Whoever is writing this show has to be a coomer. PornHub has been mentioned atleast twice already. There's a scene where the lead executive for Umbrella says she wants to make the happy pills to help chronic masturbators. I'm so confused.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

The weirdest thing is that this show makes a lot of random references to porn. Whoever is writing this show has to be a coomer. PornHub has been mentioned atleast twice already. There's a scene where the lead executive for Umbrella says she wants to make the happy pills to help chronic masturbators. I'm so confused.

 

[I (Don't) Have A Gun]

This show is the least Resident Evil that Resident Evil has ever been

A while ago I watched the Foundation series adaptation. It was extremely horrible (the books are great old school slow sci-fi...) but it made me think of modern adaptation from a slightly different perspective.
It seems that getting an original story out in Hollywood is really difficult. Everything is a sequel, reboot or an adaptation. All attempting to capitalise on brand-recognition more than quality and word of mouth. So what I think is happening is that Hollywood creatives show up with their own original idea and in order to get it made they wrap it in the flayed skin of a recognisable IP.

So that's probably why this series has little to no resemblance to Resident Evil (games or movies). They took their original story, slapped Wesker's name on a character that is not remotely like Wesker, threw in some recognisable names like Racoon City, T-Virus etc. just so they had enough of an excuse to call it Resident Evil. It also explains all the original characters because whatever original story they had had all these original characters.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Oh dear.