Resident Evil Returns To The Big Screen On September 3rd

I loved the original, the later ones got a bit stupid, but why can't people think of their own films instead of dragging out reboots?

Oh yes, money grabbing by using a familiar name

If it's a ridiculous action movie with some RE lore then I'll watch it.

....but I don't have high expectations

can’t think of anything positive to say, so I’ll not bother.

I really like the 3 animated movies, as far as the live action I thought the first one and The Final Chapter were pretty decent. I wouldn't say I'm hyped for this reboot but it's Resident Evil so I'll go see it.

@durr "Where is his father from?"
England, the mother is canadian.
Please, stop embarassing yourself

Leon's asian, Jill's black, but they managed to make sure the villains stayed white.
It would be funny if it weren't so predictable and tiresome.

@AuroraBoreale so his father's not Indian?

So, 18 minutes after the article is published half the comments already are "but the cast is not full of aryans"

Chan boards are really a ***** what do you mean we are not on a chan board?

@Bunkerneath In Fairness you could apply that logic to the original film ie dont make a film based on a game come up with original idea (arguably not very well based on game but certainly plastered the series name all over it)

@durr Please stop embarrassing yourself with these racist comments, jesus.

@Rob3008 how is it racist? Im not going to be shamed for having the same stance as anyone else would if a PoC was replaced by a non PoC actor.

You can't have it both ways.

@Rob3008

Actually, they aren't really racist. He is just commenting on double standards. Word racist is used too liberally.

But I agree, I don't mind who the actor is.

It's not about white or black or Indian or Candian, it's about humans versus zombies. Don't lose sight of the real threat as that's what the zombies want!!! ;p

What I love about this is that everyone sees Avan Jogia as a Canadian first - which is great. However if a white person - who was born in Africa - essayed a role that was originally attributed to a black African they wouldn't say he was African first, they would say it was cultural misappropriation as he was white, the fact that he was African would be overridden - see the problem there? I applaud the efforts for diversity, I really do - but until there is some kind of balance, without the immediate, knee-jerk 'that's racist' to any counter-argument, we will never progress.

@durr "he's father is not indian?" no, he may have some indian ancestors, the same way I have some germanic ancestors (you can see it all around my father's family) but all the ancestors I can find were italians, so I'm 100% italian, not german

"You literally wouldnt be saying this if it was non white characters being replaced with white people"
First of all, Jogia is white; second, that a totally different problem because white people played non-white characters A LOT in the past, just so producers didn't have to hire non-whites, it's a false equivalence; third, white was always a broad concept that was used just to decide who was the enemy, and it's a concept by exclusion (a person who has a black parent and a white parent can't say is white), and as an italian with really light skin I would have been addressed as "pale non-white" in the past; fourth, you don't know, you just decided I was part of some group that you perfectly know how works and called me hypocrite just because you think you know me

Why do they already need to reboot this? I barely got used to all the already totally unnecessary reboots of late eighties/early nineties movies...

@Vsaxo27 I would argue some comments are racist leaning but the overall point isn't - the fixation on 'he's Indian' could have been handled better. But the double standards is a fair point.

@AuroraBoreale He's not white he's Indian. His father is Indian.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-resident_Indian_and_person_of_Indian_origin.

I would argue that where someone’s race isn’t integral to their character (ie Resident Evil isn’t about race relations in the Deep South - it’s about zombies!) then it doesn’t really matter if the race of the actors/actresses is different to those of the characters in the source material.

@Archius9

That's true. Just hard to mention all the person's previous comments in just one comment. But I think you summed up my position nicely.

@henrysbloggin Right. Great. And when black characters are replaced by white actors it's no big deal and any upset black people should shut up and not complain right?

@Lordplops like just 70% of africans are black, who would even say that? Have you ever seen anyone saying, I don't know, Elon Musk is not a real South African? Everyone knows there are non-black africans -.-

@durr I'm going to assume you'll respond to this in good faith, but, yes there is a huge difference between replacing minority characters with white actors and replacing white characters with minorities.

1) There is an unfortunate historical precedent for having minority characters white washed or otherwise westernised in some way.

and

2) If you actually take a good luck at most contemporary media, I mean really separate yourself from the commentary and look around (especially in videogames) yes, people of colour and ethnic minorities are seriously under represented, isn't it nice for people to see themselves on screen? It's comforting.

finally

3) I think, some artistic licence is fine here, again the replacement of minority characters or the white washing of them is something that has a troubling history behind it and, if you think about it, what exactly is Leon's character? He's pretty much a cardboard cut out, so if they can do something to give him that much more depth or flesh him out, isn't that a good thing?

@durr mate you need to shut your mouth immediately. You clearly don’t understand the crap that’s pouring out of it. If you really don’t see what’s wrong with what you have been saying, a good rule of thumb would be before you comment something think to yourself “what would happen if my employer saw this?”

@Damo The awful Prince of Persia movie from 10 years ago that nobody asked for? Yeah that was awful too. Im not ok with Jake Gyllenhal in that role. Anyone who wasn't ok with that is justified.

@Superniall666 No. You're not going to shame me into being quiet. You literally don't even have an argument other than you want me to shut up.

You can't even explain how my stance is wrong (becuase you literally can't becuase im right)

@durr "He's not white he's Indian. His father is Indian."
Even if, his mother is not, and that's the point, for your idea of "white" there has to be some "pureness", every possible ancestor has to be white, for you he can say he is indian because has an indian father but not that he is white even if he as a white mother.
That's a double standard, that's the problem, that we are in a world were whites have to be "pure" and everything else is something that make everything non-white.
Try reverse your concept and he is magically white and not indian.

@durr

I see the point you are trying to make. And I don't think anyone should be shamed for their opinion. That tactic scares too many people away from critical thinking and thinking outside the box.

But, on the other hand, I think your opinion needs to be expressed a bit more elegantly.

@durr "You can't even explain how my stance is wrong" there were already two persons with three different wall of text that tried to explain you the problem, and you decided to ignore everything just to say that.
Ok, I think I'm done, it's really like a chan board here

@AuroraBoreale Listen to yourself dude.

If you went to a group of woke progressive people and showed them this man's picture and asked was be white or was he a "person of colour" what would they say?

Are you unironically trying to tell me right now this guy isn't a "poc"?

@Damo Yeah, isn't it always?

@durr welp another al-QAnon spotted. I'm sorry daddy never hugged you. Btw where were you on the 6th? Asking for the FBI.

I'm optimistic. I didn't even find the Paul W. S. Anderson things too offensive because at the end of the day, it's just Resident Evil. The goal is to tell a fun story with spooky beats, so as long as it delivers that I'll be satisfied.

@durr really, that's your answer? That? "what would they say?"
I don't even have the words to describe how much stupid is it and I come from the nation which gave birth to fascism: my bar was on the ground and you brought a shovel...

@mr_somewhere it is not a "huge difference". It's exactly the same. I do not accept this idea that gets parroted and thrown around where because minorites were poorly represented in media decades ago that it should therefore be acceptable to allow a glaring double standard against white people today in return.

As for your 2) I completely disagree I don't feel black people are underrepresented in videogames at all. In fact if anything I beleive black people are disproportionately overrepresented. Black people make up 14% of the US population but if you watch E3 or a Sony or Microsoft games show they quite easily make up a majority of representation in most new games.

Go look at that last major Microsoft and tell me how many games shown featured a black character. 90%?

@durr I think it would depend on the context and situation. If, like I said, a character’s race wasn’t integral to the plot or the themes being explored, then I don’t think it’s worth severe backlash. That being said white people are hardly underrepresented in the media compared to other ethnic groups so personally I could understand and sympathise with a degree of pushback from non-whites.

@AuroraBoreale you're literally arguing with me that a man who is 50% white and 50% Indian "isn't" a "PoC"

@henrysbloggin If they were some nobody characters then fine, who cares?

The problem is Leon Kennedy and Jill Valentine have been around for 25 years.

@henrysbloggin "I think it would depend on the context and situation. If, like I said, a character’s race wasn’t integral to the plot or the themes being explored, then I don’t think it’s worth severe backlash."

I 100% agree with you. Honestly I don't care what nationality the actor or actress is as long as they do a good job with the character or that the characters keep the nationality of said character the same.

I remember seeing the trailer for that Fan4stic movie and was annoyed to see that the way the cast was pick. They should have made Sue also have been a poc because Johnny and Sue are biological brother and sister and not adopted as the movie said.

I'm now looking forward to Resident Evil taking over from Brie Larson as the crazy comment section articles.

@durr it’s a pretty nasty trait of your character that even if you were correct in that blacks, for example, were over represented in video games, that this annoys you to the extent that it clearly does. I think you’re on a slippery slope to exhibiting more insidious behaviour and radicalisation. Do you have this same level of outrage when you see overt racism displayed from white people against blacks in the streets? I suspect not..

@henrysbloggin where did I say that it annoys me? You said they are underrepresented, I merely stated they are over represented. Don't put words in my mouth.

@ThanosReXXX
If this one is actually closer to the games and decent, then necessary or not, I'm happy to see it rebooted. We'll see, though, the quality of movies based on games is usually subpar.

@RupeeClock I thought that was Steve from Code Veronica?

@RupeeClock it's only taboo for White people to portray other races. It's ok apparently for PoC people to portray other races. That's the double standard.

The samurai Jack voice actor is black. The god war Kratos voice actor is black.

@durr I guess you're going to have to think of a way to exit this cruel, over-represented world. You're just too good for it and we don't deserve you. Lots of ways to do it.

Or you could just move on and not watch it. But I think most people would prefer the former.

@bmlinds Look at the passive aggressive condescending liberal snark just because I refuse to be shamed and back down from being against a glaring anti-white double standard.

@durr I do believe somebody already told you to keep it civil. Using derogatory abbreviations such as "poc" doesn't exactly qualify...

On a side note: at worst, Jogia looks like a mildly tanned Caucasian, so he isn't nearly as dark-skinned as you seem to think he is:

@durr but it's too late. The Soros-BET-Deep State-Starbucks cabal has already won. You're too late. There is only one way out for you now.

@bmlinds

You do understand that your comment is just snarky and probably worse than you think his comments to be?

I don't agree with all his points but I see his perspective and where he is coming from.

No need to be so boorish just because you don't agree.

@ThanosReXXX "poc" is a derogatory term now? Are you serious?

What a clown show we live in.

@bmlinds and you think there's armies of "Nazis" and "fascists" running around, right?

@durr if your shame is too great....

@durr no because Wawa, Chuck-E-Cheese, and certain members of Congress plant them all as a front for gulp......whispering voice black people in video game movies

@durr This is my last reply because I am on here to have fun and don't want to get pulled into any major discussions.

White washing is not an issue that happened decades ago, it's something that still happens fairly often, Ghost in the Shell was a pretty prominent example, although I enjoyed the film I know people had serious issues with Isle of Dogs too, I believe and I recall Tilda Swinton's character in Doctor Strange originally being Asian, although, in that case the character in question was a pretty bad stereotype.

I don't recall very much from what Sony and Microsoft recently announced because I wasn't terribly interested, but having a quick google I can see that your claim about them making up the majority of representation is simply not true.

But why does it matter? Like I said, and this is where I'll end, there's a sad history of whitewashing in all forms of media that still persist to this day there simply isn't an equivalent in terms of white characters being switched out and, in Leon's case he's really not that defined, so if they do something different with him and he stands out, why not?

With that, I'm off this thread, peace.

@Vsaxo27 I don't give a rats behind what anyone on here thinks. It's a friggin video game website. NL should just disable comments I don't understand why websites even have these. Fun to haunt the dreams of racists tho

@Damo My head doesn't go to Prince of Persia film as an example since it was a flop, I normally think of Nolan's Batman films were the Middle Eastern Ra's al Ghul and South American Bane are played by the white Liam Neeson and Tom Hardy as examples.

@Damo the movie has a budget of 200 million, and the producers receive 50% of domestic revenue (91 million) and between 20 and 40% of foreign (245 million), so they made 150 million in the best outcome, less than the budget even before you consider thing like taxes. So, yeah, it was a flop, sorry

And you can have flops with even higher box office, Justice League with 657 million worldwide is still at the best the "most successful flop ever"

@jump "Middle Eastern Ra's al Ghul and South American Bane are played by the white Liam Neeson and Tom Hardy"

So you're saying it's not ok for characters to have their races swapped for no reason. I agree.

@AuroraBoreale There is also a rule of thumb that you add 50% of the films budget to marketing. So it would be really 50 million.

@durr Don't put words in my mouth as I didn't say it's ok or not okay ;p

@jump I mean, you're either for both or against both surely?

How can you have a massive double standard where one is ok and one isn't?

@durr Again I said neither so it's not a double standard when I've not made a black or white (pun!) standard ;p

"We gotta kill those zombies to survive!"
"Absolutely. But before we do, I gotta ask you one thing."
"Okay..."
"What ethnicity are you?"

@westman98 "well I was white for 25 years but now im Indian because everything has to be woke and diverse these days"

@Carck feel free to point out ANY part of what I've said in this thread is racist.

@westman98 Well, that could be important, you know. Considering that it's often times either always the woman or the colored person that gets killed first in horror movies...

@Carck I beleive a character should be played by an actor/actress of the characters original race.

Black character = black actor
Asian character = Asian actor
White character = white actor

By your definition it's racist to complain if a white person played a black characters. Which is just preposterous to say.

I eagerly await Black Panther 2 starring Ryan Gosling.

@Carck So when black people get angry when a black character is played by a white person they are all being horrible racists?

Alright. Got it. Good you cleared that up. 👍

Please let this new Resident Evil movie be good. Why is it they can take obscure comic characters and make billion dollar franchises but cant take highly popular and succesful videogame series' and make a decent movie?

Multiple actors I like, mostly characters from the game instead of oc's for the movie and a director that played the games. Looking forward to this one, hoping for the best but even if it turns out awfull I still have thousands of other movies and games that are more to my liking so it won't phase me that much.

Something I like the last few years is that the people working on big budget video game adaptations are fans of said series that get hired for it, at least that happens more often. Netflix' Castlevania, this movie, Detective Pikachu and the upcoming r-rated Mortal Kombat. They still feel like they are the exceptions though, for example the Monster Hunter movie.

Also looking forword to both the cgi animation and live action Resident Evil series for Netflix.

@durr None of it should matter. A person is a person. Also how many options or should I say genre of shows can I watch with people that look like me vs you?

can't wait for this movie.

It can’t be worse than Paul Anderson movies. Then again, I said a similar thing about the Fantastic 4 remake.

This sounds like everything we could have ever wanted! I'll keep my optimism low to have it not completely shattered later though.

I mean even if it is terrible, the last five of the original series were awful but fun to watch at least once.

@Bunkerneath Let's not act like they've ever ACTUALLY adapted Resident Evil for the big screen. Those flicks are everything people say about the Transformers movies, but for some reason they get a pass. They used the license and some familiar names and creature designs to churn out an action franchise for the director's wife. They jumped the shark after the 3rd movie, and proceeded to make 3 more lol. They're enjoyable on a certain level, some more than others, but they don't tell the story of Resident Evil. And they certainly aren't horror films. It remains to be seen how this new one turns out. But if he's going to draw more haven't from the classics and aim for a survival horror feel, I'm all for wiping the slate clean.

@xxx128 im playing 7 right now with my son, and it feels like a return to form. If you have the means, I recommend checking it out. I'd skipped it because 6 and the spin-offs were so bad, but got drawn in by the Village hype and remembered I had it off GamePass.

Edit: Why am I not surprised to see arguments over race dominating the thread. Keep it classy, folks. I'll just say to the people playing victim over "what if a white person played," I don't have the time to educate you. But you should honestly look into how often Hollywood does just that. Even The woke MCU, which for example, has Tilda Swinton and Chiwetel Ejiofor (white and black respectively) in roles that the comics have as Asian characters. As for whites, Hollywood will cast white actors to play real people of color. Not just fictional characters. My favorite is when they almost had Joseph Fiennes (Voldemort's brother lol) play Michael Jackson. There are tons more than this. They filmed but ultimately decided not to air. Honorable mention to fictional characters such as Jake Gyllenhaal as the Prince of PERSIA, Christian Bale as Moses (really the whole cast of Exodus, with the director vocally stating non whites wouldn't sell tickets iirc), and Liam Neeson as Ra's Al Ghul. This may be bad faith on my part, but I'm willing to bet hard cash that anyone saying "well they'd complain if" never had a problem with the above examples.

@3RedTriangles

I know right. Just imagine how African-Americans felt for decades on end when they were always betrayed negatively as pimps, drug dealers, thugs and the villains. Heck they couldn't even get past the cliches of being a throwaway bit player or the first character killed in a horror movie. Funny how the moment the tables are even a smidge turned you start seeing complaining and pearl clutching like this LMAO.

I just want it to stay close to the source material I hold dearly, and that goes beyond race. Chris has to be an Air Force reject that punches boulders! Or I’m review bombing!

Really though, I’m wanting more news on Revelations 3 for Switch. I best hush my mouth though. I never got around to buying RE3 on PS4...

@durr

Man, did you get as upset or cry this darn much when white people were getting top billing & taking all the roles from minorities for decades now? I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that you weren't bruv. Just goes to show you how entitled some of us are. Look at how fragile you are over this. The couple of times it happens to us he's breaking down and acting like we're facing extinction on film. I bet you didn't have that same energy when minorities we're getting crapped all over having their roles taken, getting bit parts or always portrayed negatively. You want to talk unfair and double standards though, let's talk

Are you this animated and angry when in the real world we're getting coddled & having the audacity to demand organic foods after a bunch of traitorous dirtbags stormed a capital to try and overturn a free and fair election just because we didn't get our way? Or when a little extra chromosome piece of trailer park trash like Kyle Rittenhouse is getting bottled waters to quench his thirst after heat actually kill two people? Let's not forget actually even getting a bail AND having it paid for him as he's held up as a hero in white supremacist trash and some conservative circles.

Able to get away with crap like that while you'll see a minority arrested with no chance at bail or even doing time for something like having too much marijuana on their person or minor first offenses like shoplifting or something Or even worse murdered in their own home while eating ice cream on a couch or while sleeping in their bed. Yet you are in here throwing hissy-fits about fictional characters after all of the roles that have been gifted. Cry a fricking river bro.

@Kisame83

Exactly & preach on my friend. That's how you drop the hammer on such a silly and ignorant argument. That's a wrap folks.

From the sounds of it this reboot is going to be more heavily based around the story's of resi 1/2 something that the original films brushed with ie places and support chars but was all about Alice and umbrellas need/want to control the virus. And as for the casting which some seem to have a problem with as long as the actors do the roles justice who cares what nationality/ race they are

@superderper I agree with you with a lot of things. Especially comic movies. Here though, I'll allow it. The first movie set itself up as a prequel (even though it in no way could fit with canon), and the second movie was a majorly butchered take on RE 3: Nemesis. From there it went deeply into its own story separate from the games. It completely ignored RE 1 and 2. So, from a film stance, telling 1 and 2 here could almost be seen as a soft reboot by way of a prequel. And even just being a new potential series, going to the Spencer estate and following it up with the story of Birkin is fair game.

Capcom can't be faulted too much. RE6 was largely hated. Revelations seems to be niche and 7 had to fight an uphill battle to reclaim fan interest. But they've literally remade 1-3 to almost unanimous acclaim.

"Paul W. S. Anderson's commercially successful film series"

I like the way you put it.

William Zabka will portray Nelson Mandela in a biography movie. Lucy Liu will portray Robert Wadlow in a biography movie. Antonio Banderas will portray Yao Ming in a biography movie. Denzel Washington will portray Indira Gandhi in a biography movie.

I have a feeling this film will be bad just like the other ones xD Like seriously if this turns out bad, then l will just say, give up.