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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
I always figured Resident Evil had potential if adapted properly.
Simple zombie movie about survival in a big scary mansion with some mystery involved like the first RE game.
The series they made is successful enough but haven't been very good and tend to be too overthetop outlandish.
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If they stuck to the horror/zombie elements of the game, instead of the over the top action, it could have been a good movie. The issue with that is that you'd have a pretty limited audience. You'd be looking at something with a hard R rating that only hardcore horror fans would want to see. Those kinds of movies never gross more than 20 million or so.
The Resident evil movies were actually insanely successful. The last one grossed $312 million on a 40 million budget. The franchise also picked up steam as it went along, with the first one grossing $103 million.
The movies are basically just vehicles for an attractive woman to kick stuff. Word on the street is the next film will be a reboot though. You can only go so far with the post-apocalyptic storyline. My guess is the new series will go back to present day.