Screenwriter Reveals First Details on James Wan’s RESIDENT EVIL Reboot
Though it’s yet to be assigned a director, cast, or production schedule, a script has been penned for the James Wan-produced reboot of Resident Evil. Greg Russo is also the scribe of the upcoming Mortal Kombat reboot and Netflix’s Death Note 2; he recently sat down with the folks at Discussing Film to give them the low-down on his script and the project’s current status. On his script:
“It’s good. I worked on the reboot for about a year and then Producer James Wan came in, my involvement on that project has kind of concluded, so I’m not sure what they’ll really do with it, I submitted my draft to the producers and they were happy with it and ultimately they’ll do what they will with the property but I’m currently not involved with that film.”
On his specific chapters on the video game franchise that inspired him:
“Obviously I’m a huge fan of the franchise so to work on that was a lot of fun. And they’ve made six films before so when you come back to that and reboot it, you wanna do something different and not just rehash. For me it was very clear-cut that I wanted to go back and make it scary again like a horror film in terms of the classic James Wan style so that was the pitch, going back and looking what made the games scary in the first place so yea Resident Evil 7 was a bit of a touchstone for my draft.”
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You can check out the interview in its entirety, HERE. We’ll keep our ears to the ground in order to bring you all Resident Evil reboot news as details emerge. Stay tuned!
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