Adapting a beloved video game into a TV show or movie is tricky.
How close can it stick to the game canon?
Do you retell events from the games or a new story?
Explore existing characters or create fresh faces for the audience to watch?
Many have tried and many have failed.
“The games are our backstory,” he said.
That said, he’s quick to note that going forward, anything can happen.
He explained, “From that point, things will diverge.
So we’re gonna go one direction, the games are gonna go their own direction.”
Still, they could intersect again if we’re lucky.
But Capcom has their own plans for the game and how that story moves forward."
Well, Dabbpreviously addressed that question.
“We’re very aware that Albert Wesker was blown up in a volcano by a rocket launcher.
We’ve all been there,” he said back in May.
We’re very aware of that and it will be dealt with."
Of course, getting into that “very good reason” will be a spoiler.
“We have a story mapped out,” he said.
“I’m not gonna sit here and say, ‘Oh, I have a five-season plan.
And it’s all on a whiteboard somewhere.’
But we certainly have a story with a beginning, middle, and end.
And we’ll hope you have the opportunity to tell it.”
Whether or not they get to tell it remains to be seen.
Resident Evil premieres July 14 on Netflix.
Fingers crossed it’ll get renewed for a second season.
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