It's raining constantly, it's dark, it's scary, Raccoon City is a rotten character,' he said. 'What I loved about the games was that they were just scary, and that's a lot of what I wanted, that atmosphere. He wanted to stay closer to the Resident Evil and Resident Evil 2 games-even employing the same fixed angles of Spencer Mansion in the first game. But the franchise made a ton of money, so naturally a complete reboot was in the works by early 2017, with Johannes Roberts ( 47 Meters Down) at the helm.Īlthough he was a fan of the preceding franchise, Roberts told IGN earlier this year that he wanted to bring a very different tone to his film. The sixth and final film in the Anderson series was released fairly recently, in 2016. (Some spoilers for the first two games in the franchise below, but no major reveals.) Sony Pictures just dropped the official trailer for its upcoming reboot, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, and it looks like it will hew much more closely to the source material than its big-screen predecessors. But those films were only loosely based on the games, keeping a few primary characters and the basic concept, but little else. When the first Resident Evil game debuted in 1996, it was an immediate commercial and critical success, spawning several sequel games, comics, novels, and a very lucrative film franchise directed by Paul W.S.

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