Netflix's Resident Evil Series Gets A Release Date

Hope it’s good

Not really my kinda thing but there’s nothing inherently wrong with the concept, people complained about the faithful adaptation and they complained about the Jovovich weird nonsense ones so just doing their own thing is fair enough.

Will probably consume this light and sound.

Will watch.

The movies were pretty trash overall, but a fun watch when you want to kill a couple hours with friends.

This sounds interesting. Resident evil as a kinda Teen Drama-y stranger things type thing could work if the right people are working on it.

I don't care about Netflix or any other streaming service subscription so I won't watch it there, but I'll probably get this on DVD later down the line or something.

Netflix keeping the all you can eat diarrhea buffet full.

@nessisonett what faithful adaptation? 🧐

Oh I don't know about this. Resident Evil's live action track record isn't the best to say the least.

Personally, I would love a gritty, claustrophobic, John Carpenter style flick, (Assault on Precinct 13, The Thing), all set in the mansion of the first game. Ideally it would have awesome practical creature effects, and sets that evoke the haunting atmosphere of the games, particularly the RE1 remake.

Well one can hope this is better than basically every one of the movies...right...right?!

@OldManHermit This is pretty much what fans have always wanted from a live action RE adaptation, but at this point it is probably safe to say we will never get something awesome like you suggest. 😕

Be honest with yourselfs - the only one good videogame movie-adaptation was Uwe Boll's Postal. Though even this movie's quality is questionable.

@SteamEngenius No, we can't do this.

@Eel By and large, that Netflix one basically adapted the first two games. Much more than most other video game movies like Assassin’s Creed and Tomb Raider which told their own stories using the games as inspiration.

Did they say whether they were going to be life action or not?

Resident Evil/Biohazard films was trash. This series is not an exception.

So basically it's just Netflix's version of the Walking Dead then? Meh I'll still check it out but probably won't be there for the long ride.

@nessisonett That doesn't answer the question lol. Netflix or anyone in hollywood for that matter has never done a faithful adaption of Resident Evil.

@nessisonett I would argue that, even when it uses character names, locations, and a few story beats from the games, it is in no way “faithful” to the source material.

Like, the The Shining movie is closer to the novel than that.

Is this live-action, or anime? We where promised a anime, but the first netflix series was just another cgi 3D series (in the past there where cgi 3D movies).

This'll be like the movies and nearly every other Netflix live action adaption. It'll borrow names characters and places from the franchise and slap them together in some random way and get cancelled after a couple of seasons.

"the series marks a departure from both the game and movie canon"

And for that reason, I'm out.

@nessisonett which one do you think is the faithful adaptation??

I'm a big resident evil fan but this sounds terrible they race swap wesker & give him daughters like why couldn't they have just made new characters

They really just wont quit lol. the movies were terrible, the animated movies were, meh, the reboot was terrible and now they are trying again lol. Big RE fan but ffs just make one good thing.

It seriously isn't hard

I'll check it out because I'm an RE fan, but my expectations are as low as it gets. I've just never cared for Netflix's exclusives outside of a few exceptions, and the plot summary for this one sounds, well... not like RE at all. I am one of the people who enjoyed Welcome to Raccoon City as its own thing, but I think an RE-themed teen drama just sounds really boring (of course, I'm not a teen anymore and I was never into teen dramas, so that's a big part of it).

@Would_you_kindly They didn't race swap in two different versions of the films, and it was still terrible. Why does that even matter? Especially when Wesker ends up being a monster anyway? Come on man.

@deucezulu22 I'd suggest you read up on the lore if you want to know why it matters sufficed to say his race is a big part of his character & he was made by Oswald E Spencer

The first Resident Evil game was cheesy and cringe-inducing in the best possible way.

I suspect that this will be the opposite.

I bought Degeneration on DVD back in the day and found it to be boring and completely forgettable. Let games be games.

This attempt reminds me of The Walking Dead: World Beyond, and we have all seen the tragic end to that story!

@Would_you_kindly I know everything about RE, and my point still stands. Given the time line of this film and Wesker's ideology, he doesn't care about what he looks like as long as he evolves passed humans and has power.

@deucezulu22 Spencer very much did care though & he made the wesker children