I'm so glad they are rebooting this. Sure, the films made a trillion billion dollars, but they are, on the whole, stupid, shallow, poorly acted and most of all, have almost nothing to do with the source material. I was thrilled to read that the James Wan produced film will hopefully use the divisive but undoubtedly scary latest entry in the series as a touchstone for the reboot.
In an interview with Discussing Film, Greg Russo had this to say about the upcoming reboot.
"...I worked on the reboot for about a year and then Producer James Wan came in, my involvement on that project has kind of concluded, so I’m not sure what they’ll really do with it, I submitted my draft to the producers and they were happy with it and ultimately they’ll do what they will with the property but I’m currently not involved with that film.
Obviously I’m a huge fan of the franchise so to work on that was a lot of fun. And they’ve made six films before so when you come back to that and reboot it, you wanna do something different and not just rehash. For me it was very clear cut that I wanted to go back and make it scary again like a horror film in terms of the classic James Wan style so that was the pitch, going back and looking what made the games scary in the first place so, yeah, Resident Evil 7 was a bit of a touchstone for my draft."
My thoughts exactly. So far, no release date has been announced for the reboot.
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