Netflix's Resident Evil Is Making The Same Mistake The Milla Jovovich Movies Did
Netflix's Resident Evil series appears to be making a key mistake the Milla Jovovich movies also made. The early success of the Resident Evil games made a film adaptation feel inevitable, with George A Romero being the first filmmaker attached. The movie eventually went ahead under director Paul W.S. Anderson instead, which cast Milla Jovovich as an original character named Alice. The movie was a significant departure from the storyline of the original game, but it was a comfortable success.
Jovovich soon became the face of the Resident Evil movie franchise, which was built around action and setpieces instead of scares. The films are easily the most successful video game to movie adaptations to date, with the Milla Jovovich era spanning six entries and a combined box-office gross of over $1.2 billion. The franchise later attempted a tonal reboot with 2021's Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City — which cut the best monster — that adapted the stories of the first two games and featured classic characters, creatures and locations. Despite this, the reboot was a critical and commercial letdown.
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The next live-action outing for the franchise will be Netflix's Resident Evil TV series, which is set to arrive in July 2022. Details about the show are relatively sparse, though it's known that Lance Reddick is playing classic villain Albert Wesker, and the show will be split between two timelines. The first is set in 2022 and follows Wesker and his two daughters Jade and Billie as they move to New Raccoon City, while the second timeline is set in a post-apocalyptic future where most of the planet has been overtaken by monsters. That basic setup has
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