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    Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City

    The movie was inspired by John Carpenter's work, Roberts is a fan of Carpenter, making Raccoon half-abandoned run-down town wasn't really a budgetary decision, but more of making Raccoon Carpenteresque town. Early script actually had crowds of people, it was a lot less desolate, cutting crowds...
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    George A. Romero's other Resident Evil scripts still exist!

    I do agree it depends on who gives you money and contract. But at the same time, in many cases, with smaller budget your hands are less tied (with exceptions like above mentioned Piranha 2). WTRC is not financed by a major studio, but it's not an indie film either.
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    George A. Romero's other Resident Evil scripts still exist!

    Yeah, it's very unfortunate, Roberts nailed it on paper and I can only assume actors also thought they signed up for a much better movie than what was released. That's a good point and example. If Terminator never happend, we wouldn't find out that the guy who's credited as Piranha 2 director...
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    Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City

    Interesting, but most likely they are related to Greg Russo's version, there were no other creatures in early Roberts' draft.
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    George A. Romero's other Resident Evil scripts still exist!

    Unfortunately I'm not allowed to share the script, but I can post differences between early Roberts' draft and the final movie. As far as I remember: - Claire arrived to Raccoon City just to get her brother out of the dying town, she didn't show him Ben Bertolucci tape and didn't tell him any...
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    Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City

    I'd say overuse of cheap CGI and underuse of practical effects is a common problem in the industry these days, so many films don't look like films now, more like animated features with actors' close-ups inserted here and there. I don't think it's true, they would've done Greg Russo's version if...
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    Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City

    The fact is it was a great decision and it makes perfect sense, it wasn't budget related decision. The execution just wasn't there. Actually you can. You could do a lot more with 33 mln 2002 money than with 25 mln 2020 money, very obviously, especially if we consider Covid-related expenses in...
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    George A. Romero's other Resident Evil scripts still exist!

    Exactly. It needed full 2 hour runtime and at least 40 mln budget (better 50). 25 mln (and that probably includes Covid-related expenses), is just extremely low for this movie, it's kind of impressive they even managed to make anything out of this budget. There are two drafts of Bioshock...
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    George A. Romero's other Resident Evil scripts still exist!

    Early draft of Welcome To Racoon City was actually really good overall, in fact I was shocked by how good it was considering Roberts' previous works, it was maybe second best video-game adaptation ever written after John Logan's Bioshock and obviously much better than any previous RE adaptation...
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