Johannes Roberts talks his more faithful video game adaptation and the future of the franchise.
Johannes Robertsstill can’t get his hands on a Playstation 5.
Andat this rate, he might have to wait longer, which is a little perplexing.
Robbie Amell stars as Chris Redfield, who traverse the Spencer Mansion in ‘Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City’.SCREEN GEMS
One would think he’d be one of the first in line.
Still, he’s holding out hope he can get one to play the latestResident Evilgame release,Village.
“Maybe you could put that in your article,” he tells EW with a laugh.
‘Resident Evil’ character Lisa Trevor appears in the ‘Welcome to Raccoon City’ film.Screen Gems
“Poor director is desperate.
I will walk off any future sequels.”
He’s changing that with his film, out in theaters Nov. 24.
“I’m a horror guy.
I’m a Stephen King guy.
I’m a John Carpenter guy.
All those things are sort of built into the fabric of this movie,” he explains.
“I was just like, ‘Let’s make a scary movie again.'”
He and the producers just vibed.
They had the same “filmic references” and “bizarre sense of humor,” Roberts recalls.
“I remember playing that second game and going, ‘This is the movie.
This is it,'” Roberts says.
“It just blew me away completely.
The aesthetics of it, the tone, the mood.
I was like, ‘This is the cornerstone of what we’re going to do.'”
Both projects were greenlit around the same time.
Netflix also premiered a CG-animatedResident Evil: Infinite Darknessseries on the streaming platform earlier this year.
There have never been so manyResident Eviladaptations popping up in the same relative period.
And, who knows, maybe Roberts will even adapt this year’sResident Evil Village.
“I would love to,” he says.
That is, if he can get a Playstation 5 to play it first.
Your move, Sony.
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