Someone TAKE the ‘Resident Evil’ ball away from Constantin Film, PLEASE!!!

It is way past time that someone else, a major production company, produces a live-action adaptation of Resident Evil.

Ever since I saw my eldest uncle play Alone In The Dark back in 1993 during the Christmas break, I have been a fan of the survival horror genre. While Alone In The Dark is the father of survival horror, Resident Evil put is the mother of survival horror. There would be no Silent Hill, Dino Crisis, The Evil Within, and more without Resident Evil.

Shinji Mikami, the brains behind Resident Evil, ultimately left Capcom and established his company, Tango Gameworks, which developed The Evil Within.

The franchise, like many other known game franchises, would inevitably receive a live-action adaptation. It took roughly six years since the release of the first game for the first live-action film to hit movie theaters. George A. Romero, famous for the Night of the Living Dead film franchise, was originally tapped to write and direct the first film after he directed the live-action trailer for the Japanese release of Resident Evil 2.

Constantin Film, which has the live-action rights to Resident Evil, fired Romero and hired Paul W.S. Anderson (Milla Jovovich's hubby), who wrote and direct the film franchise we know today.

I do appreciate the high-adrenaline action of the film franchise, but I can’t get behind it because it really nerfed the original source material. The film franchise nerfed the living f — k out of Nemesis, one of the flagship villains of Resident Evil, someone who gave me nightmares ever since I picked up a copy of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis.

When you’re a kid, that motherf — ker is TERRIFYING! The tentacles, which killed and zombified Brad Vickers (who’s a secret enemy in Resident Evil 2), were pretty scary. If you get touched by one of the tentacles, you get infected by the T-Virus.