GEORGE A. ROMERO'S: RESIDENT EVIL || Interview w/ The Director | Brandon Salisbury
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In 1998, Constantin Film set out to adapt the greatest horror video game franchise of all time, hiring legendary film director George A. Romero. Now, Key 13 Films, in association with Point Five Films and director Brandon Salisbury set out to uncover the mystery behind why Romero’s vision was never produced.
George A. Romero’s Resident Evil is a stylized documentary, utilizing archived footage, unearthed documents, and newly filmed interviews with a wide variety of personalities. The documentary combines elements from Capcom’s hit video game series and the raw, visceral style of George A. Romero to full immerse the audience in a cinematic horror aesthetic.
Now, audiences everywhere will experience the “darkest day of horror the world will never know”, as they uncover the unrequited vision of… George A. Romero’s Resident Evil
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Thank you for the interview and thank you George Romero you will be missed
You can hear the sincerity in his, it makes me wanna cry 😭❤️
Uhhh shyea ❤
Is there going to be a stream tonight ?
Thanks to those with kind words towards George Romero, the documentary, and for myself. It means a lot, coming from a fan that never knew all those years ago I would one day be sitting here having directed something related to my favorite game series honoring my favorite director. My team worked so hard on this and we fought many battles to get here. It really means the world to me. Thank you all!
This franchise and George's movies holds near and dear to my heart the Re1 game the original has a special place in my heart thank you for doing this and doing this interview. You've made this even more special thank you.
Kicking Romero off the project and putting Paul Anderson on it was a crime against humanity
Every Resident Evil fan share this sentiment, but you gotta give PWA his props, he made shitty movies, but they made a lot of $$, something Romero's movie wouldn't even come close to.
@@StefanTejo We will unfortunately never know how well Romero's film would have done. A lot of the first film's success was due to the brand name. And it seemed to have hit at the right time. Even Universal screwed George over when they released "Land of the Dead" between Batman Begins and War of the Worlds in 2005, which greatly hurt its potential... it should have never been a summer movie.
@@StefanTejo making money doesn't equate to good. Exorcist 2 was technically a financial success despite being widely considered to be one of the worst films ever made.
@@StefanTejo Money generated doesn't equal quality of product. Look at RE6. Sold a ton of copies, but the game wasn't good. It almost killed RE. Why? Cause you have to pay FIRST before experiencing the quality of the product.
@@liger4414 No one said that the box office equals quality, but you'd be playing naive card if you think small studios like Constantine care more about reviews than the money.
Been saying it for years, George Romero not being able to make the first Resident Evil movie is the biggest crime in cinema history
I don't know. He later movies weren't good to put it mildly
It would have been good to see what he could have done with it, for better or worse.
“The biggest crime” is a bit much I’d say lol
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujanprobably lost tons of money with canceling his resident evil movie to japs
His script is atrocious and butchers the source material, just like Welcome to Raccoon City. After Dawn of the Dead, his films got progressively worse and worse as they went on. By the time Resident Evil existed, he was irrelevant.
i am a prosthetic designer who was hired by Capcom to send Zombies through the streets of NYC for the release of "Resident Evil:Outbreak" as a publicity stunt. Great times!
That’s amazing! I don’t recall seeing anything on that, but now I have to look it up.
Very Cool ❤️
Do you have any links or articles to share? That would be cool.
@@mosj9876 I only have personal photos. There were photos online , but that was 20 years ago.
It's so cool they're doing the interview at the keeper's room
It was a perfect backdrop for this interview. 🧟♂
❤
@@ROEnetwork ur not kidding. Perfection.
Itchy. Tasty.
Better check that closet
Before the last year george was alive. I travelled to orlando, because in my head. I knew ill never meet him again. The most Nicest guy ever. Most amazing person ever. RIP George
We were so close to greatness
❤
Great interview! Can't wait to see this documentary come out!
I was so hoping that this movie would get made.
I admire this filmmaker's passion for both the games and of course George the GOAT. I read part of the script a decade ago Irc, and perhaps in hindsight it could have been a surprise hit. PWSA's adaptation was more like a 130 minute NRA commercial that lacked suspense and tension featured in the source material. Looking forward to this docu.
This man’s passion is relentless
I was the same in the mid late 90s
Discovering the dead trilogy for the first time and sourcing the different cuts and as much material on his movies as possible that lead me to the crazies, monkeyshines, Martin, bruiser…and the OG RE trilogy sparked that whole interest in who is one of the most influential men in my developing teenage years and beyond
Thank this man
Than this man so much
It’s mind boggling that it’s 2024 and we still don’t have a good full length live action resident evil movie. The people that have the rights to this franchise have no idea what they’re doing.
Depends on the standard of "good". One that the fans like? No. One that created a franchise that generated over $1 billion dollars? Yes.
@@BranSalisbury you know what I mean by good.
@@Aquarat86I do. Unfortunately, you could have the most perfect adaptation ever, but if it doesn't make the studio money it's "bad". The industry is a money-making game. So, for Constantin Film, the movies are "great" because they made so much money.
@@BranSalisbury I understand what you mean.
I'm actually in the minority that likes PWSA's films, but only for him doing his own thing. And I'm obsessed with Johannes Roberts' Welcome to Raccoon City. He took some liberties but he still evoked the games along with Romero, Carpenter, and Stephen King which RE was influenced by too. Roberts had a lot in his film while he also had to contend with so many issues from on set along with executives. Add in angry fans he had a tough uphill battle that worked for me.
Cant wait for it! Almost cried with this interview! Such passion and apreciation, trying to follow the same footsteps of GR is just lovely to see, im sure GR, would be gratefull and happy to see that hes ideals kept on going. like always, thank JJ and to the ROE team for the awsome content you guys bring to this channel.
Great interview so glad to see George Romero's Resident Evil is still getting talked about to this day, I recalled first reading about it in a artcle back when I used dial up internet.
Dial up Internet. Geez. Haven't used that in forever, though I can still hear the connecting noise vividly
@@Styxswimmer I just recalled when I first played Resident Evil on PS1 I thought you know I wonder if a movie is in the works and read about Geogre working on Resident Evil movie and I thought perfect.
same
@@nweditor875 I have loved RE since 1998 and I have loved Romero films since the early 90s. When I heard Anderson was replacing Romero as director I was despondent
@@Styxswimmer Me to.
I noticed by the time 4 came out it was like John Carpenters ,The Thing
Resident Evil 4 also heavily borrows from the manga Parasyte: The Maxim, same basic design for the Plaga enemies heads splitting open with blades
What a wonderful interview and it goes to show how people really respected George alot and how they miss him to this day. Thanks for sharing guys as always
Do you know what, I commented too soon on this video and I regret it. There needs to be a system in place in this world to give this lovely man, Brandon Salisbury, a medal every single day for the rest of his life just for this interview. Your tears are ours as well, Brandon, what Sony Pictures and Capcom have done to the series is unforgiveable and I know it sounds made up but I knew people who longed for a decent RE films their whole lives and passed away without getting it. God bless ROE, Brandon and may G. Romero rest in peace
I am excited to hear that there will be a physical copy! I def will keep an eye out for that.
This was very emotional and motivational! Thanks so much for share this interview!
I would kill to see extended cuts of the live action RE2 commercials!
Name dropping Biohazard Extreme takes me back, dang
Great interview JJ!!
Thank you!
You guys need to interview Paul Mercier! Would love a full interview with Original RE4 Leon!
We would love to! One day I hope we get the chance. 👍👍
@@ROEnetwork I sure hope so! Track him down! :)
He voiced Jeremy Hartwood in Alone in the Dark 2024
@@adrisamurai9737 I had no idea!
I liked
I've never wanted something so badly in my life, I got emotional too when he started tearing up talking about how passionate he is about Romero's work, I think on my my own art career and how I stopped coz I got sick to death of my work being stolen only to have another person's signature on work that I came up with, it was such a horrendous kick to the heart, everything covered in this video just reminding me on how much fun and how much that I too was inspired by his work, i 100% am interested in owning that vid on Blu ray, much love and respect to you both, just seeing just how passionate you are about the stories and lessons we can learn from a well written Resident Evil movie that's respectful to it's source material, gosh this is such a great watch, take care both of you, catch ya on the next one
I’ve been waiting for the documentary for a year now. I’m excited!
Great interview. Always a fan and been a RE fan from the original 96’ version when I was in JR High. George R. had it right and i always put 2 and 2 together when i was younger and thought his movie was spot on. We need a RE/George R movie and make it like it’s 1999 era!
Wonder Where I can order a Jill Sandwich.
Dead Rising, Paradise plaza.
This was an amazing interview to watch. I loved every second of it. ❤️
George A. Romero movies definitely has resident evil vibe to it like the music in the original night of the living dead
Great interview. I togot a PlayStation at the end of 97 it was great coming into the franchise just as the sequel was being advertised!
Same here. Because I started with Resident Evil 2, it already had plenty of backstory. It was an interesting experience hearing of events from RE1 and any references, THEN going and playing the original game and going "oh, THAT is what X person was talking about".
George will always be the greatest of all time. May he rest in peace.
I'm so stoked for this film. I love George and his work. His passing hurt a lot. This film looks like such a love letter to the man and storytelling.
Thank you so much Brandon for your hark work! Looking forward to the documentary!
(Also hope you end up documenting more about George and his life. So much to tell)
While I'm not a documentary filmmaker (my passion is directing horror films), there ARE initial plans for more, but its the early stages of development.
@@BranSalisbury stoked.
Regardless, you got me being a fan and looking forward to ANYTHING else.
I know the script gets a lot of shit, but I read it years ago and still today I thing is way better than what we have today.
Thanks alot for this Interview. It had gives me new insights into the Romero/Resident Evil Topic.
Making history!
I've been looking forward to this video 😊 TY
Thanks! We hope you enjoy it!
I hope this guy gets his works seen and successful. He seems like he came into RE the same as me and passion feels legit.
Ive said it before but Romeros pitch and script works as a Romero zom flick, not an actual RE flick, but with that said it still would be interesting to see. Maybe great maybe not but we would have seen it and the fact the RE creators at capcom were actually inspired by Romeros work just to make the RE game and then hire him to make the RE2 commercial is a testiment to his legacy. And a testiment to us fans. Cant wait for this doc. You did a great job with the interview JJ. Good work.
What a time to be an RE fan 🖤 , wish i could one day work on a project with these guys sincerely..
Reminds me of Jodorowsky's Dune
That "win a part in the upcoming resident evil movie!" stamp right on the box of Resident Evil 2 really made you think about what the movie was going to be like
It was so great listening to this interview, and the passion behind this man!
Man this was awesome. I got emotional watching.
When is the documentary movie coming out we’re dying to see it??!!!
The godfather of zombie movies started with the original night of the living dead
What made resident evil so interesting to me when I first played it back in 1997 was how realistic the story was first survival horror game of it's kind
The RE 2 commercial was fire !
I feel like the only way to get a live action Resident Evil that won't upset the fanbase, is to make it a miniseries. Each season would be tackling a game.
Spencer Estate
Raccoon City
Nemesis
Las Plagas, etc.
This gives storyline and characters time to marinate and make the audience give a damn. And not shove in two game references in 90 minutes.
That's a great idea. Only you start with the STARS bravo team and the train. RE0.
And no loud ADHD techno or hiphop music. Just allow RE to be quiet and eerie.
I had the same thought
@@Styxswimmer I personally don't like RE0 plot. If we wanna have the ACTUAL prequel to RE1996, everything should begin in the Arklay Mountains Lab and the Guardhouse.
Edit: The prequel should be about how the T-virus was made, experiment, creation of the Hunter, Neptunes, Cerberus, Tyrant, etc. What was the "incident" in the lab? What cause it? How did it affect the scientist, security forces and workers alike? The demise of the Spencer Mansion.
That makes too much sense for hollywood
I actually got the 3rd place prize on the win a part in the movie contest and got a re2 directors chair
The editor of the 28 hours of footage wanted to strangle someone. 😂
Dude, that’s a TON of footage to sift through. Hats off to that editor.
Somewhat related but I’m excited for the keepers diary short film on June 30th
I love the other original trilogy games to death, but the vibe in RE1 original of well lit areas (and the notorious voice acting) made it so much more confusingly ominous in an awesomely unique way
I got PlayStation Christmas 97 and was also hyped by the RE2 commercial. I played RE2 first then part 1 the next year. Same introduction to the series.
I'm so looking forward to the lost footage from the commercial
Great interview
Going against Romero is horror blasphemy.
If I were to redo the resident evil movies, I would have the main characters, but I would switch their roles around. I would have Jill be the rookie, Leon/claire be STARS, and Chris be the returning brother. Chris and Claire would be siblings, but they wouldn’t know. The first film, I’d have Chris be related to Spencer,coming to raccoon city to collect his will. His car gets broken down and is helped by Jill the new rookie. She drives him to the mansion and on the way, they get attacked by zombies. They take shelter in the mansion and the rest is pretty self explanatory. 2nd film will focus on Leon and Claire investigating umbrella because of an incident from the orphanage a few weeks ago, talking to Birkins about his involvement. New evidence leads Claire to the Spencer mansion while Leon stays in the city and keeps an eye on birkins. I would introduce Ada Wong as UBCS and Carlos as a STAR member. Both Ada and Carlos are paid by an unknown source to sabotage Claire and Leon’s investigation. This film will be more of a noire theme, Cop procedural, but as it gets closer to the end of the film, the RE horror will start to show. 3rd film will be about the downfall of Racoon city, our heroes trying to escape the city but also uncovering the real intentions of Umbrella. Wesker would be introduced as a special force sent to Racoon city with Nicholai, Rebecca, and Hunk to retrieve Birkins. Claire, chris, Jill make it back to the city. Claire tries to Link up with Leon, but he is unresponsive. Soon reports of zombies on the street become known and an outbreak begins. That’s all I got for now. Some plot points need to be revised, but that’s how I would revive the series. Racoon city is a build up, it doesn’t happen in 1 film.
Brandon is a dedicated man who pursues his dreams despite the difficulties. We perfectly understand his perspective on the Resident Evil series and what this universe really is. Huge respect! We look forward to the release of the film and wish you every success.
Thank you.
30:20 AKA the Paul Anderson RE movies 🤣🤣🤣
I think that he would have done an Awesome job on Resident Evil movie 🎥🍿🧟🧟. I thought Welcome to Raccoon City was better than Paul Anderson films.
28:30 for all those out there who still don't understand Romero - maybe you got into watching stories about zombies through TWD or something and you just look at his films as too old fashioned to take seriously - this is a guy who created an entire cultural phenomenon through the power of his imagination and by treating others with respect. Few people in the world inspired others like Romero did.
Correct. Many hollywood peeps had inspiration from Romero. Tarantino, Snyder, Brooks, Kirkman, Peg, Wright, to the point of making some of the other cult classics like Return Of The Living Dead.
Hope this guy succeeds and hes right about big companies shitting on small towns. Experiencing that as we speak as an officer in a real corrupted city.
When can we order it and just take my money!!!!!
I wish he made movie
Even if I was a private collector who managed to get the extended footage, I'd upload it and share it with the world.
Same but there may be some legal red tape BS that is preventing that.
No way it wouldnt have been better than paul anderson flicks. Great interview.
When does this come out so hype!!!!!!
If it wasn't for George A. Romero I wouldn't of never got into zombies or even played resident evil I watched the original night of the living dead day of the dead Dawn of the dead 3 of my favorite zombie movies of all time
The release of this documentary has been dragged out for so long. I genuinly believe we will see it released during spooky season as it stands. Much like Silent Hill 2 remake was held back to fall 2024, it makes sense to do the same with this documentary. I will be waiting for it regardless.
Apologies. A lot of that has to do with waiting for the distributors. Though I probably didn't help things. We released a teaser back in March 2023 when we were still filming for the purposes of getting interest from distributors to buy it. It worked. The trailer in October was to celebrate 25 years since Romero wrote the script. At that time, we had just completed the first cut of the film. We went through legal from December to April. Since April 2024, the film has been done and turned over, so now it's on distributors to release it.
I admire the director's passion for Romero. I too am a fan of Romero. I grew up on Dawn and Day, but after watching Land of the Dead and Survival of the Dead. I'm not so sure his RE movies would have done well either. At the time, I was disappointed to see he was taken off the project. It felt like a perfect match. I looked into his script and read that he did make some changes, but at least his script would have been more like the games. I'm just not sold anymore that his version would have been good after watching Land and Survival. Those movies, to put it mildly, are not good. Surprisingly, I thought Diary was better than both of those movies with a smaller budget.
My issue with Romero is that he got too attached to his zombies. I think he even mentioned that he felt like they were his kids. If you watch Land, it's almost like he wants us to sympathize with the zombies which is ridiculous. Big Daddy is like the worst zombie ever. I kind of think the actor who played Bub should have gotten an awards after watching that performance. I'm with Captain Rhodes from Day of the Dead. He was a hard ass, but the zombies are not your friends or pets. They deserve nothing more than to be put down. Maybe he would have did a different version of RE zombies compared to his, but I'm inclined to think his best days were likely behind him.
Land of the Dead was ripped apart from his earlier ideas. George had issues with Land because the studio controlled so much. He didn't even have control of the casting process. After Land being a studio film, Romero went back to making independent films, for better or worse. His business partner, Peter Grunwald even said that he had options to do another studio film but refused. I always respected him for going out the way he started: by being independent.
Rhodes killed 2 humans living ones. Not a single monster.
Romero is a legend and should be respected as such. If you have actually read the script, THAT movie was not going to be good. It took too many liberties with too much.
The SD Perry novels are sitting right there.
The novels make a poor structure for film. Half the action are paragraphs summarizing things that happened leading up to the current scene being described. Works great for a novel, but the way the books are written it would cause the film to look more like loose disconnected scenes, kind of like how WTRC feels.
On that note, Romero's script would have been a great film. You read a first draft. Not even close to a final version. I think it would end up like the original Silent Hill film. Fans would complain about all the changes. Meanwhile... the rest of the horror movie community would hail it as a great horror film and it'd become a cult classic. That's my feelings on it.
I just wish Capcom will allow this man who just like the late, George A. Romero is so compassionate and has so much unprecedented Love and appreciation for what and how the RESIDENT EVIL franchise is for, To finally be able to give all of us fans the Resident Evil we've always wanted and we definitely deserve. Please let Brandon Salisbury make a live action RESIDENT EVIL trilogy movie adaptation! (RE1-3) Let him continue George's legacy and translate it into film. Please Capcom, Thanks ROE for conducting this interview.
P.S. Can't wait to watch the documentary. 🙏🏻🩷👏🏻🔥💯💪🏻
Hell yeah
Personally the closest successor s to Romero s script r the re remakes ( in my personal opinion).
It is such a tragedy Romero passed before reaching this project he was independent, why not make the Resident Evil film any ways via renaming titles of corps, characters, and the b.o.w.s different names?
Because George was hired to write the script for Constantin Film. Ultimately, they still own the script.
If i read the actual script this movie would have destroyed the one we got
For me, one of the most compelling aspects of resident evil has always been that the absolute amorality of Umbrella is fundamentally believable. Once you've accepted the fantastical elements, zombie causing viruses, monsters, etc. a corporation effectively buying and controlling a city, corrupting the local government and officials, and having absolute disregard for the citizens, workforce, etc. just isn't a stretch. It's the mundane evil of the people and organisations in resident evil that are the real horror.
The first 3 games plus Outbreak Files 1&2 will always be my favorite. The movies are just…beyond bad. They need people who love and adore the series to work on something. True fans would do it right.
When does this come out on Dvd 📀
Get Tom Savini to do it! He is the only one worthy of carrying the torch
I love this ❤
How about a go fund me to bring the script to life
JJ gameshop on my country shows resident evil 2 3 7 coming on ps5 retail disc on 19/7/2024
The way he speaks of George a Romero is amazing. Wish I could have him speak about me at my funeral.
When it's my time, I only hope that people speak the same about me.
@BranSalisbury spoken as a truly down to earth man.
*Respect*
Was that Brad Renfro portraying Leon?
Yes.
@@BranSalisbury thanks for the info. I was able to watch some of the video. Look forward to seeing the rest when I have some time.
What's the release date
Thats what I wanna know too
It's with distributors awaiting release. It's outside my control.
@@BranSalisbury cant wait to see it man!
If only George Romero movie script was green lit instead that shitty Paul w Andreson…honestly…
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Nice good
Where can we watch this? Theaters, Netflix, TH-cam, straight to Blu-Ray?
So how are we able to watch it? Sounded like they're working on getting the blu ray stuff going,, but is it available to stream on some website?
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I'm being the guy that comments before I watch the whole video. I really wanted to see Chris Redfield as an American Indian character because we get so little representation, but it also fits the character. Rarely, does an American Indian male even have a love interest in any form of popular media. I've been playing since the first game and 2 is my favorite.
But like... When/how can i watch this please? I can't waitttt
Hello there!
constantin films are the worst thing to ever happen to the Resident Evil series. How dare they make such awful moves to a game that is ripe for a brilliant movie adaptation.
I imagine maybe you guys are trying to find a few more people to include, maybe reach out to John Bloom/Joe Bob Briggs and say Suzi Hunter/Sphere Hunter due to her extensive RE knowledge?
We tried to reach out to Suzi for an interview for the doc... no answer. About 40+ people were contacted for interviews... only about 22 ended up accepting.
@@BranSalisbury Wow that’s surprising, oh well to each their own.
same thing with wattstax doc
This started a cycle in my opinion there not one good resident evil movie it’s wrong George’s version never got made