Romero's words about not being able to make the movie. The man was thinking the same way we do now, a huge wasted chance. And the way Hollywood saw videogame adaptations until these last few years gives the "they didn't know what a videogame was so they just didn't like it" angle a lot of credibility.
The way Romero describes his vision for a RE movie sounds awesome. Claustrophobic, action packed and cheesy. Of course, I’m a sucker for classic RE monsters being included. I would’ve loved to see how Yawn and Plant 42 were pulled off. The way Chris tried to force the Resident Evil title in that monologue made me laugh out loud. Excellent work, Matt. Happy Residecember!
@@NobodyUR resident evil is supposed to be survival horror but since most people favor action over scary it got to the point the movies started to influence the game resident evil 4,5,6 all became so focused on action the horror element was barely even there. The first movie had zombies on screen for a total of like 14 minutes out of an hour and 40 minute movie… I’m not saying the movies are terrible they should’ve just named it something else
That's my favorite the night remake!!! Honestly the walking dead show completely stole the entire atmosphere , the cinematography ,feel ,look of the zombies everything from the Night remake you could literally watch night 1990 and the farm season with Herschel and Maggie and it would blend almost seamlessly besides the characters...I'm surprised he didn't sue for it almost being identical lol
I have read the script. The Romero Dead films are some of my favorites of all time. Resident Evil is my favorite video game series of all time. And despite the fact that the script has a few issues, it would have aboslutely blown away what we have gotten.
The reason those shitty movies made it is because most people don't play video games, including the producers. They made them generic to cater to a broad, casual audiences. Had they stayed faithful to the games, most moviegoers would've passed just as they did the games. That's the problem with "video game movies." For example, Welcome to Racoon City was the best they could've possibly done on the tight budget and lack of knowledge on the part of the producers and director. EVERYTHING was inspired by generic action movies and the characters were safely relatable to casual fans. At this point, you'd believe that RE is well-known outside the gaming community but it isn't. Casual movie fans know little about the games, especially the old games. Making video game movies is like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, so to speak.
@@TheTillmanSneakerReview Well more people play video games NOW MASSIVELY SO, than in the early 2000s when the decision of the Resident Evil movies was going to be made. The perception of video games has entirely changed and vastly more people are positive about video games and the in-depth story significance they hold NOW than they did back then. Seeing from all the story driven games throughout the last 20 years and all the video game shows and movies that have came out that's of HIGH quality like The Last of Us, Castlevania, Arcane, etc
10 minutes in and this sounds like the RE movie we needed. Resident evil is fear inducing but at the same time it is campy and full of dark comedy, this script captures that.
I truly disagree, because you forget about the Romero's style, Romero is a director with his golden peak at 70s. His visuals and story pace would be different, nothing to do with 2000's style. Just check last Romero movies and compare to Anderson Resident Evil (2002) and Snyder's Dawn of the Dead (2004) there is a huge gap in visuals and production.
That producer quote about not showing it in a normal theater or sold in the X-rated section is WILD, lol. There have been wayyyyy more graphic horror movies released than what this script implies.
I remember when the first resident evil movie came out ( the one with milla) my local news channel here in FL said that it was the most gory and violent zombie movie ever made... They said it deserved a NC17 rating.... Stupid boomers
@@DericMyersYTEvent Horizon came out in 1998 and was waaaaaay gorier. The 2002 resident evil movie was barely gory. They even cut away from parts that would have been gory. Shut ya trap.
This is great; I've fallen into a Resident Evil rabbit hole recently on TH-cam, which is great bringing me back to the series that was my first loved game on the Playstation as a kid, something that has stuck around all these decades still playing them all the way up to the PS5.
The fact that Romero was wanting to bring Yawn and Plant 42 to life is amazing. Sure his movie would’ve been expensive as hell to film but I almost guarantee it would’ve been a hit, especially with the fans. It’s just sad we never got this!
I just gotta say I love the opening intro. The music and the cutscenes are edited together so good. I’ve seen a few of your videos recently with it, and I enjoy watching it every time, I literally can’t skip it
@@grimsquad273 I agree with you. People just dont understand that final movie will not look like draft script scene to scene. Lol and they hate Paul Anderson for ruining Re movies, which is true, but it happened after the first movie, not before. His movies when he was 28 - 35 are really nice - Mortal Combat, Event Horizon, Soldier, Resident Evil. He had a potential, too bad he decided to milk a franchise and focus only on FX part.
I have no doubt Romero’s RE film would’ve been better than the most recent movie we got, and leagues above whatever that Netflix show was. Such a shame we can’t see his script translated to the screen, but I’m happy we got a glimpse of what Romero would’ve done with that brilliant RE2 commercial.
Awesome video as always. Is cool that you broke down the behind scene of this remade version, I always been curious about it and it’s cool that Romero was really passionate about it and it wasn’t just a paycheck job.
Hi Matt. I'm looking forward to watching your previous RE video but I'm in the midst of playing the remake myself and I want to avoid spoilers. Keep up the amazing work! This video is fantastic!
@@tommydemise4077 The Resident Evil remake is one of the greatest achievements in horror gaming in my opinion, still one of the greatest remakes of a zombie game ever made!
Thank you for the video and that fan comic is so good. You should make the next video on Silent Hill and its movie adaptations; the development of the adaptations is quite interesting.
The fact he got an assistant to play the game is more effort to u derstand the source material than most of not any filmaker who tried to adapt a game into a film
Thanks for the rundown, I’m a big Romero & RE fan but never knew much about the movie. It’s a real shame b/c this is the RE movie that we all deserved.
While I don’t think it would have of been a perfect adaptation, I do think it would of been an interesting and “faithful in spirit” adaptation of the video game.
Still got my copy with the “win a part in the movie!” Blurb sticking out like a sore thumb lol I wonder if there was ever a winner for the contest, definitely feel bad for them if there was
Great video. This is such a shame this never happened. Sounded like it was a little closer to games plot. Plus Romero zombie film just would have been great !
Honestly, given the material Romero was given, he aced it. And he is absolutely right, the producers didn't know what the fuck they bought the rights to.
Many don't remember the Great Zombie Movie Famine of the 90's. It was... brutal man... RE brought interest back to zombies. As soon as RE1 dropped all us oldschool Romero fans lost our collective minds!
I did a video on this a few years ago too & yours just popped up on my recommended! Nice work I really enjoyed it! You dug a lot deeper on the script then I did. It's still a shame that we'll never get to see Romero's take on RE...
Romero’s ending to the first Resident Evil would be that the Mansion explosion would be so big that it burns through Raccoon City? Then there would be no RE2 or RE3. If you think about it Johannes Roberts took key from that, but ended WTRC with the mansion caving in on itself and Raccoon City nuked at the same time.
Brilliant review the music at the start was great. Any chance on doing James Cameron's Spiderman and I am legend Arnold Schwarzenegger version ridley scotts film. Also any others like predator 3 and the flash film version chris branctos version script. And T3 original script James Cameron gave to fox I think during mid 90's.
I always loved Romero's script, even with its problems it's miles better than any of Anderson's films IMO. Hell, i'd even say the same about Alan McElroy's RE scripts, going from what i know of those, or at least his revised draft from 1998 (his first draft from 1997 took place in some medical facility instead of the mansion, and zombies were replaced with "mutated psycho cannibals"). And here we are, over 20 years after they rejected Romero's script, and Constantin still keeps fucking up RE film franchise anyway they can. Back in 2018 James Wan and Greg Russo left the reboot film after their script was also rejected by Constantin, because Wan and Russo wanted a hard R film with more focus on horror, while Constantin demanded a PG-13 action sci-fi film and plot which would include A FUCKING TIME TRAVEL so that the reboot could be connected with Anderson films. Even Johannes Roberts got screwed over big time on his film. Because he refused to make PG-13 RE film, Constantin cut the budget from $40 million to $25 million and made him keep changing his script all the time during production. Look into some of the stuff which was in his earlier scripts and what could have been in Welcome To Raccoon City, you might be surprised. Personally, i really like WTRC despite few issues i still have with some of the actors and dialogue, but even its bad parts are better than that piece of shit Netflix series which thankfully got cancelled.
W.S. Anderson is the TRUE main antagonist of his own movies! He shoved his sexy, Russian model wife down our throats as an invincible Mary Sue type of character and turned the real main characters into supporting jobbers and zombie fodder.
George Romero was truly a Gonzo Filmmaker (He didn’t play Hollywood politics) His work in Horror changed everything without Night of the living dead & TX Chainsaw Massacre Modern Horror would be much different…. It’s sad how influential Romero was in all pop culture but, yet to some extent he was never given his due by the mainstream! His version of Resident Evil would’ve actually been awesome even if it was Rated X i can bank it would’ve still made money and been a hit (Even though the internet mob hatted RE Welcome to Raccoon City it was very much a love letter to Romero’s Vision and a glimpse of what George wanted to make
Actually I’m one of the few who really like Welcome To Raccoon City and will defend it any day over the Alice movies. I honestly believe Johannes took inspiration from Romeo’s script.
this story is such a slap in the face. imagine creating something that inspired something, and the people behind that something says you are not good enough for our something
I remember reading an article in a Rue Morgue magazine, and they mentioned George Romero directing Resident Evil. I had forgotten about it until I went to see RE in the theaters, and needless to say, there was no mention of George Romero anywhere.
This sounds awesome! I never read up on this or watched this video because I figured George Romero would be far more inclined to make this more of a straight zombie movie than a bio-weapon movie. Man, I was wrong. The hunters, the giant snake, Plant 42, Neptune, and even possibly stuff from the next game? This is exactly what we needed. They should still make a movie based on this script. Obviously you'd have to touch up the dialogue, but as someone who grew up with the first game, buying it the day it came out just because of the weird cover, the script sounds like it has the best bones of a near perfect movie adaptation of the game.
This is fascinating! While I’m not crazy about some of the changes Romero would have made to the story, his vision for the film does sound pretty interesting. Great video!
It's such a shame, I like W. S. Anderson's movies for what they are, but there's no doubt that Romero's vision would be a masterpiece, even if the x ratings made it a slow burn in terms of success.
I came across your channel through this ResiDecember Evil series. I love the content that ppl create through Oct but then it all dries up when Nov rolls around. I looked at your uploads and am hyped to check out your other videos, they’re right up my alley. 👍
Holy shit! this would've killed if they gave him enough budget! But maybe that was the problem? Everything about it was perfect for The original idea of the first game movie back then. The including of Ada since she was also mentioned in a puzzle in the lab from John her husband. Man This would have been special.
Love the video. I've always wondered how the Romero movie would've turned out. Also OMG DID YOU USE THE MIDNIGHT'S NEON MEDUSA AS BACKGROUND MUSIC IN ONE PART OF THE VID? I LOVE IT 😍
I read this script late at night when I was like 13? and had to stay up till the sun came up because I was that wigged out. Incredible script. That being said the first US RE movie owns.
Great info on this lost film. As a fan of the game series and the films, would you please do a deep dive into the live action series and the new movie Welcome To Raccoon City? Would love that
Someone needs to have the balls to take Romero's completed Resident Evil script and turn it into a movie that brings his vision for the franchise to life. Romero is the godfather of the modern zombie. It's a crime that studio executives prevented him from getting his Resident Evil film made. Seriously how do you refuse a script written by the man who knows this " shit" better than anyone? Romero's Resident Evil film would have been one thousand times better than the so-called Resident Evil films we got in the 2000s.
That executive and producer saying that a Resident Evil film should not be something bloody and gory is so tone deaf. They could have just made a censored theatrical version to appease the blockbuster crowd and then released an unrated director's cut as well. What a shame.
I mean, Jill's character treatment in the unmade film kind of fits right in, with what the games and the animated films and series have done, relegate Jill and Claire to second and third tier characters, who hardly matter in the development of the story at all by now. I mean, the Netflix anime even managed to make Rebecca even more into a damsel in distress than she was before. Of course that has nothing to do with Romero per se, just in the sense that basically the treatment of these two main characters seems to be even worse now than decades ago in another medium.
This sounds so cool. It's a shame it never got made because despite some odd changes, it sounds like a fun and faithful adaptation of the original game. With that said, I did enjoy the first Resident Evil movie by Paul WS Anderson and Welcome to Raccoon City was okay, but hugely flawed! But this movie sounds more of what I like to see!
Well after the trash WS Anderson gave us and having half of the budget cut , Welcome To Raccoon City could have been far worse. It was ok, wish they didn't cut the budget.
Welcome to raccoon city bombed at the box office, the script was wrong, resident evil 1 and 2 aren't close together in the timeline, it's resident evil 0 to resident evil 1 then resident evil 2 to resident evil 3, way to many things were changed, the characters were messed up, only a few this were good about and that's it.
Anderson's re movies still did better at the box office then welcome to raccoon city, Anderson's first resident evil movie is the number one re movie and welcome to raccoon city was a mess, it bombed at the box office, the script and timeline were wrong, and the characters were wrong and well the actors didn't look like Leon, Jill, Ada and Clair, Robbie Amel did his best with Chris and people down right hated what they did with wesker
I think that Romero's vision for Resident Evil was perfect for the era that he wrote the script. If it was made it would surely be one of my favorite horror movie based on nostalgia alone, no doubt. Now, if only we can get our hands on that remote that Morty Smith uses to watch interdimensional cable...maybe we can watch it in a universe where Romero's vision was realized 🤔
Also, I don't have a problem with Jill's depiction here because this is 1998 Resident Evil 1 Jill, not Resident Evil 3 Remke Jill. Back in those days, the character most fans now recognize as being Jill Valentine did not exist. She wasn't a gendebent 80s action movie hero, and most of her personal life was left up to interpretation.
Same with the S.D. Perry novels. We see a normal day in RPD but when you get in the Mansion the setting is completely cutoff from the outside world. Nice.
But all the live action adaptations haven't set the bar very high have they? Even the CGI/animated movies look like masterpieces in comparison and they're far from perfect. Basically it's a race to the bottom: Who can outdo the previous works (in a negative way)?
This feels like the version we should have got. It would have been amazing. Something about the games I loved, even as a non gamer I could quite happily sit & watch the narratives of the original games emerge as others played. Because of that I never really took to the changes made to the Mila Jovovich series. Then that recent reboot. Jesus. Spent too much time screaming "HEY IT'S THE 90's" instead of just being the movie it should have been to begin with.
The first RE movie by Anderson will have a special place in my heart. It isn’t perfect but it’s definitely heaven sent compared to every single sequel after.
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What are your thoughts on Romero's Resident Evil script?
I prefer his (Romero) script over the movie's we got.
Where can I read Romero’s script?
@@ErnReich Link is in the video description
Really amazing.
Romero's words about not being able to make the movie. The man was thinking the same way we do now, a huge wasted chance.
And the way Hollywood saw videogame adaptations until these last few years gives the "they didn't know what a videogame was so they just didn't like it" angle a lot of credibility.
The way Romero describes his vision for a RE movie sounds awesome. Claustrophobic, action packed and cheesy. Of course, I’m a sucker for classic RE monsters being included. I would’ve loved to see how Yawn and Plant 42 were pulled off. The way Chris tried to force the Resident Evil title in that monologue made me laugh out loud. Excellent work, Matt. Happy Residecember!
Mannnnn the way described it gave me goosebumps I wish we would’ve gotten this version 😭
I enjoyed the ones that did happen 🤷🏻♂️
What’s the point of remaking the games plot . I can just replay the fake for that
Yeah I wish the new RE movie would've gone with that script, it could have been awesome!
@@NobodyUR resident evil is supposed to be survival horror but since most people favor action over scary it got to the point the movies started to influence the game resident evil 4,5,6 all became so focused on action the horror element was barely even there. The first movie had zombies on screen for a total of like 14 minutes out of an hour and 40 minute movie… I’m not saying the movies are terrible they should’ve just named it something else
well we have george son and continuing his father’s idea eventually someday and bringing back the real resident evil movie
This film has been one of the big “what ifs” for me. Love the breakdown.
Wow, Romero's script is very faithful to the game. This is the movie I wish we got instead of the 2002 "Alice" version. Damn.
Facts.
I still like the original res movie trilogy ngl
@@shelbyspeaks3287 they suck
@@-r-3542 better than some of the cannon games
@@shelbyspeaks3287 the movies with alice?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Nice joke, really good one...make me burst in laughs thx!
I always felt like the Night of the Living Dead 1990 remake was a major inspiration for Resident Evil, not too late to hire Tom Savini to do it.
That's my favorite the night remake!!! Honestly the walking dead show completely stole the entire atmosphere , the cinematography ,feel ,look of the zombies everything from the Night remake you could literally watch night 1990 and the farm season with Herschel and Maggie and it would blend almost seamlessly besides the characters...I'm surprised he didn't sue for it almost being identical lol
What kind of disappointed too many extra stuff that deviates too far
@@Stereostupid The remake is my favorite zombie film ever and I love TWD. This seems like the reachiest reach, however.
@@californiacombativesclub202 The remake by Savini is almost a perfect film and remake in general.
*Chris enters the mansion*
Chris: What is this? Some kind of Resident Evil?
No he’d say “it’s Redfielding time!” And Redfield all over.
@patrickrobinsob1464 if this movie was made today, studios would demand these lines lol
Sounds like something Barry would say instead
I have read the script.
The Romero Dead films are some of my favorites of all time. Resident Evil is my favorite video game series of all time. And despite the fact that the script has a few issues, it would have aboslutely blown away what we have gotten.
The reason those shitty movies made it is because most people don't play video games, including the producers. They made them generic to cater to a broad, casual audiences. Had they stayed faithful to the games, most moviegoers would've passed just as they did the games. That's the problem with "video game movies." For example, Welcome to Racoon City was the best they could've possibly done on the tight budget and lack of knowledge on the part of the producers and director. EVERYTHING was inspired by generic action movies and the characters were safely relatable to casual fans. At this point, you'd believe that RE is well-known outside the gaming community but it isn't. Casual movie fans know little about the games, especially the old games. Making video game movies is like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, so to speak.
@@TheTillmanSneakerReview Well more people play video games NOW MASSIVELY SO, than in the early 2000s when the decision of the Resident Evil movies was going to be made. The perception of video games has entirely changed and vastly more people are positive about video games and the in-depth story significance they hold NOW than they did back then. Seeing from all the story driven games throughout the last 20 years and all the video game shows and movies that have came out that's of HIGH quality like The Last of Us, Castlevania, Arcane, etc
Besides they could’ve fixed any issues later.
10 minutes in and this sounds like the RE movie we needed.
Resident evil is fear inducing but at the same time it is campy and full of dark comedy, this script captures that.
I remember finding this script and reading through it in a night YEARS ago. Seemed better than we got from Anderson truthfully.
A chimp with a type writer could've outdone Anderson lol
Wwwwwaaaayyyy better. I read it a few times. Loyal to the source material to.
@@chalkdemon8019 yeah, Anderson’s “work” is a low bar. Basically as low as just a vehicle for him to ogle his wife.
I truly disagree, because you forget about the Romero's style, Romero is a director with his golden peak at 70s. His visuals and story pace would be different, nothing to do with 2000's style. Just check last Romero movies and compare to Anderson Resident Evil (2002) and Snyder's Dawn of the Dead (2004) there is a huge gap in visuals and production.
I liked it. Didn't like the whole Chris is a Native American local type unaffiliated with S.T.A.R.S..
The opening for this with the 80’s music and “you want STARS?! I’ll give you Stars!” Was toooo good. 10/10
Gunship
George A Romero is always missed, Rest In Peace forever.
That producer quote about not showing it in a normal theater or sold in the X-rated section is WILD, lol. There have been wayyyyy more graphic horror movies released than what this script implies.
I remember when the first resident evil movie came out ( the one with milla) my local news channel here in FL said that it was the most gory and violent zombie movie ever made... They said it deserved a NC17 rating.... Stupid boomers
It was the late 90s. Blood and gore were frowned upon. Hell, Dawn and Day had to be released unrated (might as well be an X or NC-17).
@@DericMyersYT blade and blade 2 came out around the same time and was way more blood and got an r rating so it didn’t make any sense
@@micmorgan84 totally different. Blade was nowhere near as bloody as this would have been, PLUS this technically involves cannibalism.
@@DericMyersYTEvent Horizon came out in 1998 and was waaaaaay gorier. The 2002 resident evil movie was barely gory. They even cut away from parts that would have been gory. Shut ya trap.
This is great; I've fallen into a Resident Evil rabbit hole recently on TH-cam, which is great bringing me back to the series that was my first loved game on the Playstation as a kid, something that has stuck around all these decades still playing them all the way up to the PS5.
The fact that Romero was wanting to bring Yawn and Plant 42 to life is amazing. Sure his movie would’ve been expensive as hell to film but I almost guarantee it would’ve been a hit, especially with the fans. It’s just sad we never got this!
If only he was still alive.
I appreciate all the hard work that you've been doing to produce these amazing videos!
I just gotta say I love the opening intro. The music and the cutscenes are edited together so good. I’ve seen a few of your videos recently with it, and I enjoy watching it every time, I literally can’t skip it
Excellent video Matt hearing this Romero's RE movie would have been awesome
The timeline we deserved! Way better than what we have.
@@grimsquad273 You need to get out more.
@@grimsquad273 I agree with you. People just dont understand that final movie will not look like draft script scene to scene. Lol and they hate Paul Anderson for ruining Re movies, which is true, but it happened after the first movie, not before. His movies when he was 28 - 35 are really nice - Mortal Combat, Event Horizon, Soldier, Resident Evil.
He had a potential, too bad he decided to milk a franchise and focus only on FX part.
@@runlarryrun77shut up
I would prefer Romero's Resident Evil over the Resident Evil films we gotten.
Yeah those Resident Evil films combined with the turn of Resident Evil into an action series to form the series' darkest hour
I feel like this isn't a sentence but I'll let you off because it's Xmas.
Have a nice day, son.
@@Fudge-picker
Thanks?
Dude, Hello Meteor music featured in this video? Hell yes! One of my favorite artists!
We still can't get a better adaptation if Resident Evil than the original cutscenes and the RE2 commercial .
I have no doubt Romero’s RE film would’ve been better than the most recent movie we got, and leagues above whatever that Netflix show was. Such a shame we can’t see his script translated to the screen, but I’m happy we got a glimpse of what Romero would’ve done with that brilliant RE2 commercial.
Awesome video as always. Is cool that you broke down the behind scene of this remade version, I always been curious about it and it’s cool that Romero was really passionate about it and it wasn’t just a paycheck job.
So sad we didn’t get Romeros movie
Very fun watch, and your use of The Midnight, Gunship and the original Day of the Dead soundtrack peppered in makes this even more enjoyable!
Was excited for the film and sad to hear it was cancelled. Can’t wait to see the documentary in 2024.
George Romero almost made an RE movie?? Woah..
Would have been epic, the Grandfather of Zombie films taking on Resident Evil? Phenomenal!
Oh nah, slow day at work and this comes across my desk?
We clocking out early today folks.
Hi Matt. I'm looking forward to watching your previous RE video but I'm in the midst of playing the remake myself and I want to avoid spoilers. Keep up the amazing work! This video is fantastic!
Ooh! Enjoy! That remake is my favorite video game of all time!
@@tommydemise4077 The Resident Evil remake is one of the greatest achievements in horror gaming in my opinion, still one of the greatest remakes of a zombie game ever made!
@@tommydemise4077 I'm looking forward to it. I love and still play the original so I'm really looking forward to it
Resident evil never gets old every game is a banger .
Thank you for the video and that fan comic is so good. You should make the next video on Silent Hill and its movie adaptations; the development of the adaptations is quite interesting.
The fact he got an assistant to play the game is more effort to u derstand the source material than most of not any filmaker who tried to adapt a game into a film
Thanks for the rundown, I’m a big Romero & RE fan but never knew much about the movie. It’s a real shame b/c this is the RE movie that we all deserved.
While I don’t think it would have of been a perfect adaptation, I do think it would of been an interesting and “faithful in spirit” adaptation of the video game.
Still got my copy with the “win a part in the movie!” Blurb sticking out like a sore thumb lol I wonder if there was ever a winner for the contest, definitely feel bad for them if there was
Great video. This is such a shame this never happened. Sounded like it was a little closer to games plot. Plus Romero zombie film just would have been great !
Wesker mutating into Tyrant wouldve been cool. After an epic hand to hand battle with Chris.
Honestly, given the material Romero was given, he aced it.
And he is absolutely right, the producers didn't know what the fuck they bought the rights to.
Many don't remember the Great Zombie Movie Famine of the 90's. It was... brutal man... RE brought interest back to zombies. As soon as RE1 dropped all us oldschool Romero fans lost our collective minds!
I did a video on this a few years ago too & yours just popped up on my recommended! Nice work I really enjoyed it! You dug a lot deeper on the script then I did. It's still a shame that we'll never get to see Romero's take on RE...
Romero’s ending to the first Resident Evil would be that the Mansion explosion would be so big that it burns through Raccoon City? Then there would be no RE2 or RE3. If you think about it Johannes Roberts took key from that, but ended WTRC with the mansion caving in on itself and Raccoon City nuked at the same time.
That was probably because he didn’t think he would get a sequel.
Brilliant review the music at the start was great. Any chance on doing James Cameron's Spiderman and I am legend Arnold Schwarzenegger version ridley scotts film. Also any others like predator 3 and the flash film version chris branctos version script. And T3 original script James Cameron gave to fox I think during mid 90's.
That commercial is awesome, I can watch it over and over again.
I always loved Romero's script, even with its problems it's miles better than any of Anderson's films IMO. Hell, i'd even say the same about Alan McElroy's RE scripts, going from what i know of those, or at least his revised draft from 1998 (his first draft from 1997 took place in some medical facility instead of the mansion, and zombies were replaced with "mutated psycho cannibals"). And here we are, over 20 years after they rejected Romero's script, and Constantin still keeps fucking up RE film franchise anyway they can. Back in 2018 James Wan and Greg Russo left the reboot film after their script was also rejected by Constantin, because Wan and Russo wanted a hard R film with more focus on horror, while Constantin demanded a PG-13 action sci-fi film and plot which would include A FUCKING TIME TRAVEL so that the reboot could be connected with Anderson films. Even Johannes Roberts got screwed over big time on his film. Because he refused to make PG-13 RE film, Constantin cut the budget from $40 million to $25 million and made him keep changing his script all the time during production. Look into some of the stuff which was in his earlier scripts and what could have been in Welcome To Raccoon City, you might be surprised. Personally, i really like WTRC despite few issues i still have with some of the actors and dialogue, but even its bad parts are better than that piece of shit Netflix series which thankfully got cancelled.
Hey, if you don't mind but can you please show the link where I can find the Early Script of WTRC and the other stuff.
W.S. Anderson is the TRUE main antagonist of his own movies! He shoved his sexy, Russian model wife down our throats as an invincible Mary Sue type of character and turned the real main characters into supporting jobbers and zombie fodder.
Thanks for the amazing video Matt. Much ❤️ as always
i tough this whole event was a meme at first but im very excited to see you explore more video games......like HDoom
Trying to not get BANNED from TH-cam
romero says no i cant make movie where police station has puzzless
Let's go baby, just what I needed
Good stuff man. Half of my mornings work music playlist played in this video lol.
Anyone else remember the "Enter for your chance to get a walk on role in the Resident Evil movie!" sticker on the case of RE2?
Getting George Romero to do Res Evil movie would have been an honor for the creators I'm sure.
George Romero was truly a Gonzo Filmmaker (He didn’t play Hollywood politics) His work in Horror changed everything without Night of the living dead & TX Chainsaw Massacre Modern Horror would be much different…. It’s sad how influential Romero was in all pop culture but, yet to some extent he was never given his due by the mainstream! His version of Resident Evil would’ve actually been awesome even if it was Rated X i can bank it would’ve still made money and been a hit (Even though the internet mob hatted RE Welcome to Raccoon City it was very much a love letter to Romero’s Vision and a glimpse of what George wanted to make
Actually I’m one of the few who really like Welcome To Raccoon City and will defend it any day over the Alice movies. I honestly believe Johannes took inspiration from Romeo’s script.
@@patrickrobinsob1464 I agree. It wasn't perfect but MUCH better than that Alice bullshit we got...
That opening edit is 🔥🔥🔥
Read most of the script for romero’s movie. It was pretty awesome
Awesome video, brother! It randomly started playing.
20:08 people like that who are in charge of a company should not be the head of the company, plain and simple.
this story is such a slap in the face.
imagine creating something that inspired something, and the people behind that something says you are not good enough for our something
That intro was fantastic!
I remember reading an article in a Rue Morgue magazine, and they mentioned George Romero directing Resident Evil. I had forgotten about it until I went to see RE in the theaters, and needless to say, there was no mention of George Romero anywhere.
This sounds awesome! I never read up on this or watched this video because I figured George Romero would be far more inclined to make this more of a straight zombie movie than a bio-weapon movie. Man, I was wrong. The hunters, the giant snake, Plant 42, Neptune, and even possibly stuff from the next game? This is exactly what we needed. They should still make a movie based on this script. Obviously you'd have to touch up the dialogue, but as someone who grew up with the first game, buying it the day it came out just because of the weird cover, the script sounds like it has the best bones of a near perfect movie adaptation of the game.
This would have Been better than everything we have got so far
I’m looking at you Netflix
I’m also looking at you Paul WS Anderson
man that was a good doc thanks champ
This is fascinating! While I’m not crazy about some of the changes Romero would have made to the story, his vision for the film does sound pretty interesting. Great video!
It's such a shame, I like W. S. Anderson's movies for what they are, but there's no doubt that Romero's vision would be a masterpiece, even if the x ratings made it a slow burn in terms of success.
A Resident Evil movie taking place in the RE universe? Can't have that..
Pretty sad when an old man like Romero understands Resident Evil better then the studio
Thank you Matt!
@16:15, Chris basically does the "what are we, some sort of suicide squad?" trying to work in the title through some profound quote. Lol.
I came across your channel through this ResiDecember Evil series. I love the content that ppl create through Oct but then it all dries up when Nov rolls around. I looked at your uploads and am hyped to check out your other videos, they’re right up my alley. 👍
In light of all the current Resident Evil films and media I would have liked to see a Romero RE film :D
Thoroughly enjoyed this video, intro was god tier 👍
Holy shit! this would've killed if they gave him enough budget! But maybe that was the problem? Everything about it was perfect for The original idea of the first game movie back then. The including of Ada since she was also mentioned in a puzzle in the lab from John her husband. Man This would have been special.
Loved this video and George A Romero Rules 😊🐾💜
Honestly "The evil that resides within us all" is still a better meaning than "this house is really really mean!"
its nice when you can color up the characters as what was done with Big Hero 6. Variety and characterization are nice.
Love the video. I've always wondered how the Romero movie would've turned out.
Also OMG DID YOU USE THE MIDNIGHT'S NEON MEDUSA AS BACKGROUND MUSIC IN ONE PART OF THE VID? I LOVE IT 😍
Hopefully somebody in the future will reboot this as a tribute to George Romero
Can you imagine they use this script and titled the film George Romero’s RESIDENT EVIL. Literally would be a box office hit for sure.
I hope whoever is writting our timeline makes up the fact that this wasn't released with that John Carpenter's Dead Space movie
I read this script late at night when I was like 13? and had to stay up till the sun came up because I was that wigged out. Incredible script.
That being said the first US RE movie owns.
Great info on this lost film. As a fan of the game series and the films, would you please do a deep dive into the live action series and the new movie Welcome To Raccoon City? Would love that
I'll have a video later this month on every live action movie and the Netflix series!
It seems that the recent resident evil games are taking George a Romero's ideas to heart
Maybe the real evil was the residents we made along the way.
Great video.
Someone needs to have the balls to take Romero's completed Resident Evil script and turn it into a movie that brings his vision for the franchise to life. Romero is the godfather of the modern zombie. It's a crime that studio executives prevented him from getting his Resident Evil film made. Seriously how do you refuse a script written by the man who knows this " shit" better than anyone? Romero's Resident Evil film would have been one thousand times better than the so-called Resident Evil films we got in the 2000s.
That executive and producer saying that a Resident Evil film should not be something bloody and gory is so tone deaf. They could have just made a censored theatrical version to appease the blockbuster crowd and then released an unrated director's cut as well. What a shame.
This game changed things forever
That Chris monologue was cheesy with the name drop but legit sounds like it could have come from game Chris and sounded legit cool.
You just earned 1 sub for effort you put in this vid
I mean, Jill's character treatment in the unmade film kind of fits right in, with what the games and the animated films and series have done, relegate Jill and Claire to second and third tier characters, who hardly matter in the development of the story at all by now.
I mean, the Netflix anime even managed to make Rebecca even more into a damsel in distress than she was before.
Of course that has nothing to do with Romero per se, just in the sense that basically the treatment of these two main characters seems to be even worse now than decades ago in another medium.
This sounds so cool. It's a shame it never got made because despite some odd changes, it sounds like a fun and faithful adaptation of the original game.
With that said, I did enjoy the first Resident Evil movie by Paul WS Anderson and Welcome to Raccoon City was okay, but hugely flawed!
But this movie sounds more of what I like to see!
Hey a familiar face, what's up man? I see you follow Draper too.
Well after the trash WS Anderson gave us and having half of the budget cut , Welcome To Raccoon City could have been far worse. It was ok, wish they didn't cut the budget.
@@monotech20.14 yeah I agree. I
Welcome to raccoon city bombed at the box office, the script was wrong, resident evil 1 and 2 aren't close together in the timeline, it's resident evil 0 to resident evil 1 then resident evil 2 to resident evil 3, way to many things were changed, the characters were messed up, only a few this were good about and that's it.
Anderson's re movies still did better at the box office then welcome to raccoon city, Anderson's first resident evil movie is the number one re movie and welcome to raccoon city was a mess, it bombed at the box office, the script and timeline were wrong, and the characters were wrong and well the actors didn't look like Leon, Jill, Ada and Clair, Robbie Amel did his best with Chris and people down right hated what they did with wesker
I think that Romero's vision for Resident Evil was perfect for the era that he wrote the script. If it was made it would surely be one of my favorite horror movie based on nostalgia alone, no doubt. Now, if only we can get our hands on that remote that Morty Smith uses to watch interdimensional cable...maybe we can watch it in a universe where Romero's vision was realized 🤔
The fact that Romero made a RE2 commercial in Japan with Brad Renfro as Leon and I never knew about it is just insane lol
Also, I don't have a problem with Jill's depiction here because this is 1998 Resident Evil 1 Jill, not Resident Evil 3 Remke Jill.
Back in those days, the character most fans now recognize as being Jill Valentine did not exist. She wasn't a gendebent 80s action movie hero, and most of her personal life was left up to interpretation.
Same with the S.D. Perry novels. We see a normal day in RPD but when you get in the Mansion the setting is completely cutoff from the outside world. Nice.
Why the hell this was never made? sounds 10 times better than any other live action RE product
But all the live action adaptations haven't set the bar very high have they? Even the CGI/animated movies look like masterpieces in comparison and they're far from perfect. Basically it's a race to the bottom: Who can outdo the previous works (in a negative way)?
WHAT WE COULD'VE HAD.. 💔💔
This feels like the version we should have got. It would have been amazing. Something about the games I loved, even as a non gamer I could quite happily sit & watch the narratives of the original games emerge as others played. Because of that I never really took to the changes made to the Mila Jovovich series.
Then that recent reboot. Jesus. Spent too much time screaming "HEY IT'S THE 90's" instead of just being the movie it should have been to begin with.
The first RE movie by Anderson will have a special place in my heart. It isn’t perfect but it’s definitely heaven sent compared to every single sequel after.
Movie sounds much better than what we got.