The subtitle of the rebooted Version of Resident Evil was recently officially revealed as Welcome to Raccoon City, which once again brought the center of the story back to the focus of Raccoon City. According to the director, he wants to achieve such an effect - the reboot version will use the way of group portrait portrayal, will not fix the perspective on a certain person, and will show the process and impact of the raccoon city incident from different aspects, and in the whole story, raccoon city is the only protagonist.
The director said what he liked most about the game's originals was its horror elements, the rain scenes, the dark scenes, the creepy feel, and Raccoon City was full of decay, and that was exactly what he wanted to achieve in this movie, like the atmosphere of John Carpenter's films Night Mist Killing Machine and Bloodsplatter Thirteen Police Station, where a group of people are trapped in desperate situations and cooperate to survive.
And the latest story synopsis also confirms this, the specific introduction is like this -
Raccoon City was once home to the world-famous pharmaceutical company Umbrera, which brought Raccoon City a moment of prosperity and glory, however, with the massive migration of Umbrera, Raccoon City is now a decaying, relatively desolate Midwestern city. Meanwhile, great evils are brewing below the surface, and when these evils are unleashed, the inhabitants of the entire city are permanently "transformed", and a small group of people must unite to reveal the secrets hidden behind Umbrera, and first of all, they have to survive the long night.
This rebooted version of "Resident Evil" is adapted from "Resident Evil 1, 2", this introduction also corresponds to this plot, the director for Raccoon City will be the center of the film's key grasp is very accurate, because like Leon, Claire, Chris these characters are everyone has a lot of feelings of the protagonist, focus on which one will appear more biased, group drama-based, just like the game itself, event-centric, can bring everyone a familiar feeling.
There are two main scenes in this movie, the Western-style House and the Raccoon City Police Department, as I said before, the Resident Evil series has always been a medium-investment film, like the old film series after the few, the more you play bigger and bigger, to turn into a special effects blockbuster routine is obviously the wrong direction, of course, this should also be Paul Anderson himself may want to change the style, after all, has been filmed for so many years, like explosion Bay filmed "Transformers" for ten years, to the end of the "Transformers" himself is tired, to " Transformers 5 didn't even make a few decent anamorphic shots. If the Resident Evil series had maintained the style of the first room siege, the word of mouth would have been much better than it is now.
The budget of the rebooted version of "Resident Evil" will not be too high, tens of millions of days, and the reason why the official selection of director Johannes Roberts is obviously that he also liked the suffocating atmosphere created by the underwater environment in the shark-themed movie "Escape from the Deep", and if this rebooted version of "Resident Evil" can also make the scenes of the Western-style and police station feel this way, it is also half the success.
The new Resident Evil was originally scheduled to be released in September this year, but it was postponed for two months a few days ago and is currently scheduled to be released on November 24 this year.