Cast your mind back to 1996, you might remember the now-iconic opening cinematic for Capcom's Resident Evil, featuring the in-game S.T.A.R.S team in a live-action shoot (for Nintendo gamers specficially, you might have first encountered the cinematic in the 2006 DS release, Resident Evil: Deadly Silence). Even in the mid-'90s, it was considered to be pretty cheesy, but its inclusion has been cited by Resident Evil fans as one of their favourite aspects of the original game in more recent years.
Now, after 26 years, three of the cast members have reunited to promote a fan project from YouTube channel Residence of Evil. As reported by Time Extension, Charles Kraslavsky (Chris Redfield), Greg Smith (Barry Burton), and Eric Pirius (Albert Wesker (he still looks like him!)) sit down with host and filmmaker Andrew Saullo to talk about their experiences shooting the cinematic, whether they remained in contact with one another in the years since, and how they became involved with Residence of Evil's fan project called 'The Keeper: A Biohazard Story'.
It's pretty striking to see these actors after such a long time, and it's clear that their reunion means a lot to them, which is lovely to see. As for the fan project itself, 'The Keeper: A Biohazard Story' appears to be a faithful recreation of the scene in which RE protagonist Jill Valentine stumbles across a journal written by a doomed Umbrella employee, played in the film by Charles Kraslavsky himself. A trailer for the film is now available to watch via Residence of Evil.
For more information on the production of the fan-made film and how Kraslavsky approached the role of 'The Keeper', be sure to check out Time Extension's original article.
How do you feel seeing these actors after such a long time? Do you remember the first time you watched Resident Evil's opening cinematic? Let us know!
[source youtube.com, via timeextension.com]
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"You're not good enough to be my fake!"
Wait... wrong game.
Jill Sandwich
Master of Unlocking
'Jill, why don't you, THE MASTER OF UNLOCKING, take this key'
Haha, I love that their shirt colours coincide with their STARS uniforms.
holy eff, that's amazing! I can't wait to watch this later!! thanks for the post, Ollie!
Eric wearing sunglasses indoors the whole time shows his commitment to the character
But did they find….
JOSEPH!
I LOOOOOOVE the OG Resident Evil 1, out of the classic style games it honestly might be my favorite. Will be listening to this interview at work tomorrow, thanks for linking this.
I was hoping it would be them re-creating the scenes!
I couldn't watch it, it's not a very exciting chat, but awesome they got some of the crew back together!
I’m still keen to see the cancelled George Romeo resident evil movie. His RE adverts where the best!
For lunch they all enjoyed a Jill Sandwich 😉
The hunt for those actors has been such a task over the years. The physical actors in the FMV scenes didn’t do the voice overs and were only credited by their first names. I think there was also a coincidence where the voice actor who played Barry was also named Greg and caused mass confusion. (Or his name was actually Barry, I can’t remember)
Either way it’s cool to see them together. I’d read excerpts from an interview with Greg where he talked about how unhappy Inezh was during the muggy nighttime shoots for the opening cinematic. Apparently they were all being devoured by mosquitoes.
Resident Evil was my first PlayStation game and I have played it 57,000,000 times.
I hope this is not Chris's blood.
WESKERRRRRRR!
He's our old partner, ya know....
What a treat seeing a reunion like this.😊
We don't know where Jill is..
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