Can Netflix’s Resident Evil Series Break The Franchise Curse?
TheResident Evil franchise has a long history with some amazing games, and to put it nicely, some real rotten flesh stinkers. But the franchise has yet again found its way back into the spotlight with even more monsters and possibly more to add to the already complicated interweaving canon. This time with announcements of another classic remake after the success of the Resident Evil 2 and 3 remakes, with this time being the highly anticipated Resident Evil 4 remake.
But it isn’t just the games that are back in the spotlight. With the upcoming Netflix series that premieres in just one month on July 14, live-action adaptations are back in focus, especially after last year's Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. Although the Resident Evil franchise has gotten many successful video games, its movie adaptations for the most part have left many fans feeling ill. They haven’t been able to capture the unique experience of playing survival horror games and have for the most part just become generic monster action movies. But it seems that the franchise's popularity is enough for studios and filmmakers to keep bringing it back to life to give it another shot.
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After the release of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, it wouldn’t have been surprising if studios didn’t want anything to do with Resident Evil movies anymore. The movie became a symbol of what a disaster the movies had become up to that point. A stunt woman was severely injured in a stunt, the movie did poorly at the domestic box office, and the movie was critically panned as the worst one yet, which is really saying something compared to its predecessors. It was the furthest thing to an exclamation point on the
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