Hollywood as of recent doesn’t understand a lot of things.

Disregard hollywood, embrace the capcom CGI movies where chris and leon gun-fu zombies and rebecca wears a wedding dress.

"If Capcom stopped making these games forever as of tomorrow, we could rest easy knowing that our heroes won in the end." This is ultimately a philosophical issue, and you see it with Alien, a franchise the Resident Evil films are heavily influenced by. One of the reasons Alien 3/Resurrection are somewhat more polarizing is that they take the perceived happy ending of Aliens where the Xenos are defeated and Ripley and Newt and Hicks return home to Earth, and destroys that dream. Newt and Hicks are killed offscreen, and Ripley is impregnated and doomed. That's one of the reasons Becky and Jill and the others die offscreen in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. To drive Alice into despair and hopelessness just like Ripley was in Alien 3. (It's why the cop-out ending they tacked on where she wakes up after deploying the AV doesn't really work thematically. She was meant to die originally. It completes her arc.)

"Hollywood Doesn't Understand Resident Evil" More like Hollywood doesn't understand ANYTHING nowadays.

Blade Wesker was still so bad it was hilarious.

I didn't think a worse adaptation of Resident Evil after the Anderson movies was possible, and then Netflix came along and asked me to hold their beer.

Whenever I hear someone say "how is that game resident evil? There's no zombies" then I know that person doesn't understand resident evil The series was never ONLY about zombies

Honestly, such a perfect way to describe it, and it's amazing. It's literally right on point when you say the games have "hope" and the movies just follow this cliché "how long can you survive" scenario. Ironically it also feels much more realistic with how actual undead viral outbreaks would be handled, unless it was airborne infections it is nearly impossible to go to dangerous levels of infection that can be considered an apocalypse. And as far as these corporate titles go, they are only using the Resident Evil name for recognition while never even paying respect to what made the name recognizable to begin with, in simple words, they just don't know what IS Resident Evil, or maybe they just don't care, probably both.

Hollywood doesn't understand alot of things now.

The really important question is, where do they get all the hack writers from? It's an adaptation of a video game with quite obvious characters, mood and action. It really shouldn't be THAT hard.

What's so frustrating about the RE adaptations is that the stories in the games are so cinematic in nature to begin with. They're tailor-made for adaptation to other media. But you're right, the global zombie apocalype trope/trap is what ultimately undoes every adaptation attempt thus far. That claustrophobic survival horror feel which is present through all of the mainline games is largely missing because, instead of it being one or two characters going into or escaping from an outbreak area, we get a ragtag band of survivors trying to live out their lives in a postapocalyptic world.

I've been wanting a faithful Resident 1 adaptation for years, but Hollywood always doing shit

An adaption of RE1 is easy as it's just a "Haunted House" movie, They could merge both scenarios and make a 90 - 120 min movie that flows easily. KZfaqrs have done it with the REmake

It's the small things that really matter. You know something is a quality product when you can go back to it and realise how important small things, like the element of hope you brought up here, really is.

It seems to me that Resident Evil is not about the apocalypse, it’s about canceling the apocalypse. Great quote, great film

**THEY HAD ONE CHANCE WITH 2021 WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY MOVIE AND MADE LEON AN IDIOT!!!! GAWD!!**

Always love it when Snake does a Resi episode I could listen to him talk about Resident Evil all day

Hollywood does not understands video games. It's not rocket science , just stay faithful.

When people ask me why I hate the RE movies, your comment about how the games still have "hope" is my new go to answer.

“I make real art, Hollywood bullshit.” Damn, went straight for the nuts there lol

Yes! This is what I hate most about the Resident Evil movie series and Netflix series, the games are NOT based on a zombie apocalypse story. This shows they have no idea what the series is about and the survival horror themes of it. As soon as saw in the Netflix series trailer that it was based on that I rolled my eyes and I wasn't interested.

I legitimately forgot that _Resident Evil_ Netflix series exists, and while I would have liked to have kept it that way, I am glad to hear it was cancelled given how bad I heard it was. It honestly wouldn't have surprised me to learn if it had gotten a second season given something as bad as _Emily in Paris_ did, though I imagine that _Paris_ trash was/is more marketable and mainstream in general for various reasons even with zombies having been done to (un)death for over a decade now.

Resi could've been one of the best video game adaptations on the planet. Premise is simple, and all Hollywood had to do is simply adapt _that_ aspect. Alas, when Hollywood thinks of zombies, they think of world wide outbreaks because stupid reasons.

I don’t think Hollywood will ever understand resident evil because they keep messing everything up

Personally, I would love to see RE4 adapted as a mini series that takes place over four long episodes, the first being Leon in the village dealing with the Ganados, ending with him and Ashley getting to the castle, the second being his adventures in the castle ending with him meeting up with Ada at the boat, the third having him deal with Krauser, and the fourth being the fight with Saddler and escaping on the Jet Ski. I don't think they would do it, but it's still cool to think.

Wait, is "Walking dead" still going? I remember watching it when I was starting high school and giving up after 3 seasons because it got boring and repetitive, I can't even imagine what they've been doing for eight years after that.

So for fun, I recently started trying to adapt my own RE screenplay (went back and forth whether to make it a film series or tv series and ended up choosing the latter) and I will be the first to admit it’s sooo much harder than it looks lol there’s definitely a balance when trying to keep it as faithful to the games while also trying to keep it fresh and original to that unique adaptation. I hope we’ll be able to see an amazing film/tv adaptation someday 😊

Hollywood may never understand anything for as long as they live.

Jesus. I haven't heard Snake this brutal since the MK11 critique.

Every outbreak in Resident Evil games seems localized (even RE6 which moves city to other cities the virus spread just in that place then over) when the movies, the virus spread ultimately forced into global scale :/

Exactly. The world of the games has never gotten to the point of an apocalypse so why the Anderson films and Netflix show were set in one I don't know.

It's sad because a love-action adaptation of Resident Evil could be incredible! Absolutely incredible! It would be talked about more than the Walking Dead franchise. Unfortunately, some people are only familiar with the Paul Anderson movies. It's sad because the Resident Evil is rich with story and it has alot of emotional weight as well. Don't get me wrong, it had some hiccups along the way, however Capcom knows how to learn and fix their mistakes and improve on their content! 🙏🏽💪

I don't think even Capcom gave a crap. They just let these Hollywood people meet with them and say "Pay us and you can do whatever you want with our game franchise".

That’s what I love about the games, there’s always normal life happening somewhere else in the world.

I have the perfect episodic format in my head. Each episode could cycle between what character is doing what while wondering the mansion. It needs real suspense and grounded so it makes zombies scary again. Blasting through zeds like Arnold makes it not scary at all.

Completely agree, this was my own thought as i was watching anderson movies. Hell, not only the conclusion rejects any idea of hope, you kinda dont want these people to survive anyway because THEY dont really care about each other. Theyre constantly fighting with each other or making fun of each other or call each other expletives and can only ever give a backhanded compliment, at most. I do not think "wow alice is so cool because shes so flippant and uncaring". I think "wow this sucks, i want so bad to see a single drop of human emotion squeezed out of that rock". But its not just alice, its everyone. I legitimately missed the "jill sandwich" writing bc despite the stupid stuff, the main thing RE characters are, is kind and caring. Barry saves Jill no matter how Wesker manipulates him. Ada helps Leon even though that's in direct contradiction to her mission. Humanity shines thru them and you realize how theyd be able to save the world because theyre innately good, if a bit mischievous at times. Basically the world wide conflict of the games vs adaptations reflects that of the interpersonal relationships of characters themselves. In one, theres hope and belief in the good, in the other, its pure cynicism.

SWAT team in a mansion with zombies and creatures. Is that really so hard? The best adaption will be the Japanese commercial for Resident Evil 2.

three act stories need to come back. Beginning middle ending, and when possible, a happy ending. Not everyone has a happy life so some kind of cheer would be nice.

I'm actually working on a Resident Evil script right now and found this video to be very useful. Thanks for posting it!

Why can they never just take the original story, and then NOT fuck with it? Cut out some backtracking and filler stuff, choreograph some fights, expand the dialogue a little, done. This applies to many, Many other game adaptations. I know games like Sonic can be a little thin on plot and need some original writing, but Resident Evil has a long and expansive story that can Easily be adapted provided you have the money. We KNOW it works. People loved the animated Street Fighter movies that stayed largely closer to the source material, and the live action ones are considered to be a joke. Mortal Kombat was widely liked, and that was closer than most, still keeping a lot of the core beats and trying to represent Most of the characters accurately. (And where they, EG: Made the ninjas villains, it made sense due to the otherwise heavily one-sided nature of the story otherwise, that would lead to most fights being good VS good.) And oh look, the new Mortal Kombat didn't follow the games at all, and people hated it. Just. Copy. The. Original. P.S. also this can apply to other works, I'd like to give a very heartfelt "Fuck you" to everyone behind the movies of Artemis Fowl and Percy Jackson, and Especially to the fucking Ghouls behind the The Watch series (Who waited for Sir Terry Pratchett to die because he was making mandates to try and keep it accurate).

EXACTLY. I have my own misgivings about the directions most of the main games after 4 take, namely 5 & 6 (Resident Evil is NOT an action seinen anime about badass warriors killing monsters) and especially Village (They followed up the best plot in the series since 3: Nemesis with a ridiculous supernatural horror that wrecked the lore, rules and rendered everything all for nought), but as bad as those directions are... At least the incidents were still localised and were mostly acts of bio-terrorism. Hollywood execs don't get that Resident Evil isn't a zombie apocalypse franchise and that it's a franchise about monsters in general (though zombies ARE the ones you encounter the most often in the pre-4 days). When you have the zombies take over the world, you miss that point and things become generic and bland.

At the very least the writers for Welcome to Racoon City made sincere attempts to use the story and material from the games rather than just taking a couple names and jamming them wherever they could fit them. I’m not crazy about some of the things that were skipped or changed but it was at least moderately enjoyable and had some legitimate effort put into it.

Makes me wonder how John Woos Metroid movie would've turned out if it was actually made.

I thought Welcome to Raccoon City was the closest we got to a proper Resident Evil/Resident Evil 2 movie. It still wasn't the best movie but it was a lot closer than the Wes Anderson films.

Hollywood still doesn't know the 3 directives: Isolation, Confinement and Extermination, and instead it's Hopelessness, Corruption pandering and Mary Sue syndrome.

Great point about the endings in the games vs the movies. I got sick of Walking Dead after season 3 because there was no hope and everyone dies. It's super dark and depressing. Meanwhile, most of the RE games have the hopeful escape by helicopter into the sunset endings. I reread The Umbrella Conspiracy by S.D. Perry recently, great read and highly recommend it.

An apocalypse, or at least a looming one, can work as the grand finale. RE6 basically did that with so many major parts of the world being infected and throwing the world into chaos near the end of the various campaigns, but we then had the day saved and stability restored. If everything did go to hell in an RE game, it'd only likely happen in the final installment, where even if humanity was saved and the viruses were cured/wiped out, the series would end on that note because you can't raise the stakes above the entire world being thrown into turmoil. With the Anderson films, the buffoon stretched the apocalypse across like four films, unable to decide if the severity of the situation meant the world was a bland desert or just lacked a stable civilization.

I don’t think Hollywood understands video games period.

I think what annoys me most about the films not following the games is that RE1, especially Remake already has the template for a fantastic horror movie. A spooky house thriller with worse horrors around each corner and a gloomy, morbid backstory about how Spencer manipulated the Trevor family into helping him create a stronghold for these genetic abominations and test the viruses that created them. It’s eerie, it’s suspenseful, it’s intriguing in the most unnerving way. Why haven’t we gotten a movie based on RE1 yet?

Whats sad is that RE has everything you need for a zombie film series and to be successful… but that’s to easy.

I was thinking this once the last show dropped. The whole point of Resident Evil is that they're always on the brink of an apocalypse. Once it happens, all I think of is how a ton of my favorite characters must obviously be dead, and if not then they certainly failed. RE is just a crazy horror version of every action movie where the hero comes out on top, having the end of the world is like having the Terminator succeed...

I feel like the franchise has reached such widespread recognition, most producers assume they can inject whatever themes in order to tell their story, and hope it continues to associate with fans . When in reality, the franchise became so popular for its zany and convoluted universe that introducing any concepts outside of it’s core genre, like Action-Adventure Alice or real world events like COVID. These concepts actually detach the franchise from its core premise. It would be like trying to insert Earth into Star Wars after the franchise has made it so far without ever having to consider such preposterous concepts. Rather innovating new genres like the Mandalorian or Rogue One, that are still set apart from the mainline story, but still fit within the overall universe.

Oh my god someone finally put it into words.

There was a lot wrong with Welcome to Racoon City... But the thing that really killed it was trying to make games 1, 2, and 3 into a so for movie... Imagine if it had been a lord of the rings trilogy epic

To me the main problem is that they misunderstand the main concept. In Resident Evil, the zombies and viruses aren't a global threat that humanity need to band together to fight. They are weapons. They are used for terror again and again. You can swap the zombies entirely and give umbrella and all the other companies nukes and the story would stay largely the same. In the movies however they treat it like the walking dead. Full on apocalypse everyone is dead, humanity collapsed.

I'm glad you uses the re5 menu theme

Another thing is that it's easier to like a story if you have several different likable characters who are awesome in specific ways. Then the movie made it so only the leading character gets shit done and the others are just there to fill in screen time.

This video could and maybe should have been 3 times as long. The outbreak is a great point, but that's just scratching the surface! Hollywood still doesn't understand the RE characters either! Or the lore.

I think resident evil in movie form should be more of a slower paced mystery movie with horror elements like the first game

It's a shame that the 2021 movie, which was a disappointing adaptation, is the only one that was the most faithful adaptation that didn't do the world apocalypse. That Romero movie not happening is one of the worst decisions Hollywood made.

my man just open my eyes and destroy my childhood memory :")

I forced myself to watch the whole live-action Netflix series, and the mediocrity of it makes the Anderson films far more tolerable, which is quite the accomplishment of being in a new level of shit.

see thats what ramaro got right on his resident evil script. he didn't try to rewrite the story or redefine it he took the blueprints and followed them. he got that the first game was a locked door horror story and that's what he did he made a locked door horror script

FINALLY!someone who understands that the whole point of the games is about bio weapons and not a apocalypse,now all we need is for people to understand that re4 and re 5 DOESNT have zombies at all and that the plagas dont limit your motor functions at all.

I think another pro of the Resident Evil games being smaller scale means that there is more time to focus on individual characters and fewer loose ends that needs to be tied up by the end of the story. The most global game in the RE franchise is RE6, it that games there are bio terror attacks in the United States, Europe, and China, and that games story is kind of a mess partly because it was so over reaching with its story. RE1 took place in a mansion with like 20 zombies total in the entire game, RE7 is a bit more action focused than RE1, but that game takes place in a closed off estate with maybe a total of 80 or so enemies in the entire game, with a majority of those enemies appearing in the final stretch of that game. You don't need something super massive and grand to make a proper Resident Evil story.

Something that wasn't mentioned was the stakes are higher in each game because they are preventing the outbreak from spreading. Players are invested because they want the protagonists to win. In the movies the outbreak spreads anyways so it seems as if the protagonists don't have an effect on the outcome and there are no real stakes anymore because the apocalypse already happened.

My idea is to do Resident Evil as a TV series but really based on the games: RESIDENT EVIL: Season 1: Zero/The Beginning Based on Zero/ RE 1 Season 2: The City of The Dead Based on RE 2 Season 3: Nemesis Based on RE 3 Season 4: The Village Based on RE 4

The only thing Hollywood understands is that gaming franchises make money. However, they have no intention of writing these for the target audience. No, we must write these things for people that don't care about the franchise and only want to take it away from the original fans because they have decided the source material is "problematic" somehow.

Nice to see someone crediting welcome having the same vibe as the games, and at least it was funny incompetent

As you say, the issue is once you go full post apocalyptic, there is no going back from that. The continued problems with RE onscreen, don't fill me with confidence over the upcoming Silent Hill 2 based film.

0:26 THANK YOU! I noticed that exact fucking thing, it's like they don't understand this isn't a Zombie Apocolypse story. It's actually what makes RE pretty unique from most other Zombie Media.

I believe they understand but just want to do their own version, the Alice RE series can be somewhat faithful but it feels like someone's fanfict of RE. And that's how it is to all live action adaptation. They have the source material but they want to do their own version while doing a half ass job at respecting the source material. And if you have a problem with it there's gonna be people that say "it's a different continuity so it's ok, not everything has to be accurate, maybe it's not for you, go back to your old stuff if you don't like the change.

They're trying too hard to satisfy Walking Dead fans, social justice warriors and Resident Evil fans. And the latter is the afterthought. The most recent movie Welcome To Raccoon City is a great example of it.

Been saying this for decades! THANK YOU!!!

The problem with these adaptations is that they are not made by people who love or understand Resident Evil. We all hope for a better adaptation sometime in the future but my only hope is that they get someone who loves and understands Resident Evil. I take Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy as a example of someone loving and understanding an IP and making a movie out of it because they love that IP and want to share it to other people. That is what a new Resident Evil movie adaptation needs to do next time.

I agree. Everyone I know was waiting for the Netflix series saying, "please don't be another Zombie apocalypse, please don't be a- oh. It is."

I never expected any of the Hollywood execs who saw this as a cash cow to have ever played any of them. From the first movie where they decided to retcon characters just to give their (all of them) good attributes to a new character that was designed for Milla.

The games are about stopping the outbreaks, or surviving long enough to see them stopped. The movies revolve around surviving after nothing is able to stop the outbreak. The latter sounds edgier, but the former actually intuitively offers higher stakes. If film characters fail - they will die in a progressively bleaker world. If game characters fail - the world will die.

Am I the only one who wants puzzles in the movies? At least the labs could have statue or painting moving instead of your basic keycard. The netflix show had them play piano to get into lab, but it was far too little, way too late.

4 years after an old video of Adaptation Difficulty, everybody might think they would learn mistakes from the past, then trying to adapt at least _properly_ this time... Right? *W R O N G* Wonder why RE is always difficult to adapt onto the screens, movies or tv show alike, just like you've said? The lingering question that caused everyone to scratch their heads every time an adaptation after adaptation gets released on the big screen? Well, if we think about the REAL question is: _"What kind of studio(s) that Capcom gave their IP to, that made ALL live-action adaptations? With their terrible productions?"_ Now we know the R O O T of all problems: 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 The Answer: *Constantin Film & Screen Gems* . They're the ones that keep butchering the source material. The Reason: the studios only want to *_secure the rights from Capcom_* ; it has been more than 20 years they still own the IP. And, trust me, dude, it's even more complicated when it comes to licensing agreements between these studios and Capcom (according to RE Reddit forum). So Congratulations to Constantin & Screen Gems, for their failures of Welcome to Raccoon City AND Netflix Series, in _less_ than a YEAR!

Hell even House of the Dead for how similar it is to Reaident Evil until House of the Dead 3 was still decent with its own series. And that is because House of the Dead 4 and Scarlet Dawn are prequels to the third installment.

I’d love for a REmake movie thats an atmospheric horror mystery film that ramps up into an action movie just like how the games ramp up towards the end

Funny how simple the resident evil storyline and narrative is, and yet one can consider it unadaptable.

It's insane they can't get this right. It's so simple a set up for a movie. Send a group of cops with likeable personalities into a scary Mansion in the woods, full of zombies and monsters with them trying to survive while also uncovering the truth about Umbrella. It's so easy yet they consitantly screw it up.

Welcome to Racoon City was still pretty bad. But it could've been good had it not just slapped character names onto generic action heroes, smashed two different stories together, and drenched it in fan service and assets directly ripped from that game that they somehow still didnt get right! It could've been a really good video game tie-in movie. They already used assets and ideas from the games, but I think focusing the story on different characters in Racoon City at the beginning of the Outbreak could've been really fun.

What’s a shame is that back in 1998 there was a Cancelled attempt to make a Resident Evil movie exactly like the first game by Capcom and directed by George A Romero. It’s a shame that version didn’t happen because George Romero would be a perfect fit to do a movie like that.

The Netflix creators of that RE series are watching The Last of Us like "wait, we just had to make the show exactly the same and people would like it??" 😂 yes.

What pisses me off is that THE GAMES CAN BE THE LITERAL BLUEPRINT. they have a strong story, strong characters but they butchered it. Imagine if TLOU tv show didn’t have Joel but someone else in his place and then introduces him as a side character

The thing about not making it an apocalypse is that you get to tell unique stories about B.OW.s. I know they are contraversial but 5, 6, and both Revelation games are some of my favorite RE games! And while none of them have great plot, the outline of terrorists using B.O.W.s for very political means like they would any other weapons of mass destruction is actually interesting! Far more than a post-apocalyptic world! At world fighting back against its own sci-fi devastation and the heroes that fight for it! They could change the stories, the characters, add in terrible plot-twists, and as long as it keeps that focus and theme it would still be really good and way different from almost all other zombie stories.

I agree with the title but i can say that welcome to racoon city was the closes to getting the game.

1:30 I keep trying to explain this to people as this is my main issues with the movies

The thing is, adapting a videogame is tough because you have to make the gameplay aspects shorter and meaning for the big screen. Which leads to say: WHY THE HECK THEY CANNOT ADAPT THE FREAKIN' BOOKS? Hollywood know how to make movie adaptations from books, adapt those, goddamnit

Loved this video

What makes RE so good beyond the gameplay or the story or the characters is the fact that it is not just a zombie franchise. It wouldn't have lasted this long if it was just about zombies.

Oh Snap, I didn't even know that Netflix canceled it 😂😂😂

George Romero would have been the one to direct. I honestly wish what the movie would look like if he wasn't fired by capcom

Something I think might be worth a parallel plot video might be Kitana and Mara Jade. They're both: Girls taken from their parents to be raised by an evil Emperor. Raised to be assassins of that evil Emperor. Sent to assassinate the main hero of their respective franchise. End up failing that assassination. End up realizing that the Emperor they were loyal to was evil, and turning against either him or the remnants of his Empire. End up falling in love with the main hero. They have evil counterparts who remain loyal to the evil Emperor or his idealogy, an evil counterpart they fight. Both are betrayed by a member of their family in a turn that is considered unfaithful to the characters by much of the fanbase.

According to MUSICAL BIOHAZARD: Song of Gaia stageplay produced by Capcom, the world does eventually end up in an apocolypse.

Hey 4thsnake just curious if you interesting making video on your next resident evil about another resident evil 6 style game on characters that not appear in the game like maybe the main lead characters is jill, claire, rebecca, and new mysterious characters also who should be their AI partner maybe like bring back sheeva almor, jessica stewart from revelations or make an exceptional to bring back from 6 like helena or grow up sherry or characters from resident evil spin off like survivor, outbreak, chronicles

As much as welcome to raccoon city was accurate to base material it’s the most blasphemous of them all-because of that. My biggest turnoff was the fact that I thought Jogia was a neat choice for Leon, if they gave him the right hair make up…and then we got Jogia and Kaya Scodelario’s scowl topped off with no pony tail.