For many, Resident Evil has already been butchered beyond recognition. Ignore the mixed quality of Capcom’s recent outings, and you’re still left with the weird Milla Jovovich movies and terrible CG flicks. What could possibly be worse than all of the above, though? Well, a television show based upon the survival horror series, of course.
And that’s exactly what a production company called Mance Media are currently pitching. Dubbed simply ‘Arklay’ – after the mountainous area from the original game – the show is described as a thrilling detective drama, in which Detective James Reinhardt is “thrust into a series of bizarre homicides”. Naturally, there’s a virus behind it all – and presumably a dude with bleached hair and shades.
To be honest, the description doesn’t sound that bad at all, but it’s such a vanilla concept that we’re not sure why it needs to be connected to the popular property in the first place. In our opinion, that’s just going to cause production complications – after all, how will the casting agency ever find an actor with biceps as big as Chris Redfield?
[source mancemedia.com, via bloody-disgusting.com, polygon.com, joystiq.com]
Comments 11
Can't be any worse than the movies.
@Gamer83 Haha! True dat!
If it even vaguely resembles the early RE games it's a winner compared to the films and whatever the bloody awful CGI film was called I watched on Netflix.
@Munkyknuts This one?
@get2sammyb yeah that's the one....like an incredibly dodgy feature length cut scene.
This concept sounds awful. I enjoy the milla movies but I enjoy them as their own separate entity. Racoon city is where its at, that's where the TV show should be set and it should be post apocalypse.
I actually like the movies the first three anyway last two movies were pretty bad and boring to me tho anyway this sounds like it might have a Gotham-vibe to it i like that
Will it have quick time events?
@Splat
Spot on!
But seriously, if they've never made a good RE movie (CG or live action) then why do they think they can make a good TV show? Just a bad idea all around.
My favorite RE movies are the originals DamnNation and Degeneration.
Hope they keep releasing these types.
I hate Milla's movies just piece of commercials.
@AeroZeppelin
The first one was passable, actually I enjoyed it quite a bit, after that the whole thing just got too crazy and ridiculous even for Resident Evil. The games are bi-polar now too though, so I guess it makes sense.
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