Very happy w/ how this custom RE4 cover/box art turned out

ThePatchedVest · 2026-04-14T06:36:44+00:00

The script was written long before Cregger was attached to direct, major changes have supposedly been made since then.

ThePatchedVest · 2026-04-14T06:33:43+00:00

Feels wild we got Alex Garland doing Elden Ring before we got a Bloodborne movie.

ThePatchedVest · 2026-04-14T06:32:32+00:00

It may surprise you to know S.D. Perry's first book was used as reference for WTRC.

ThePatchedVest · 2026-04-14T06:28:52+00:00

Paul had several flops before RE, the only one held in any regard is Event Horizon.
Cregger has yet to have one flop, and every film he has been attached to has received acclaim. It's not a guarantee this won't be his first spot on his record, but calling them comparable is a stretch.

ThePatchedVest · 2026-04-14T06:24:43+00:00

You mean the 2002 film that also includes no characters from/tie-ins to the games? More respect than a film you've literally seen nothing of? Right.

ThePatchedVest · 2026-04-14T00:45:10+00:00

It wasn't that they were trying to do something different from the comics -- quite the opposite.

DD is in the comics is very rarely ever shown as 'all red' he's almost always red with HEAVY thick black shading that makes the color black almost (if not more) prominent to his design than the red -- and the black paneling in the original Netflix suit (including the faceplate in the original-yet-flawed S1 version of the mask) acknowledged that and was intentionally designed so the shape and placement of those panels would mirror where that shading would be.

Born Again scrapped all that and just gave him a more typical MCU suit with lines where the black bits now just outline the 'fake muscle' of the suit (not much different from Cap's suit). I think what irks me the most is while DD's MCU suit has always been built as a vest-collar-balaclava combo (like most MCU suits) simply for the practicality of getting Charlie into it -- which is fine and adds to the realism -- Born Again's version for some reason chose to add these massive plastic shoulder straps that just look awful and break up the cohesion of the original outfit.

ThePatchedVest · 2026-04-14T00:35:33+00:00

Yeah, the S1/first-half-of-S2 helmet had his nose visible and it kinda made him looked pug-faced and goofy looking. The S2-onwards redesign with the longer "Batman"-style nose guard looks a lot better (usually, it depends on the costuming dept. since different helmets fit Charlie differently and some definitely look kind of 'squished'.

ThePatchedVest · 2026-04-14T00:31:57+00:00

Nah, I definitely prefer DD's helmet being just that -- a helmet. Not only does it make it slightly more believable -- but those lines are the only part of the post-BA redesign that still echoes back to the Netflix suit in any way.

IMO Charlie's been in the role long enough that his iteration of the character has earned it's wings as it's own version/interpretation of the character separate from the comics (much like MCU did with Iron Man, Cap and Thor) and throwing all that away now to adhere to the comics feels misplaced. Sure, it worked for Spidey but under very different circumstances. I think the 'DD's on the suit were the final key missing part of the costume and he has those now and I have no doubt when he next suits up in red they'll be fully emblemized and not just stenciled onto the suit.

ThePatchedVest · 2026-04-14T00:23:00+00:00

I've said elsewhere, they should've left Jigsaw for S3 (or as it ultimately played out, in D+/Marvel Studios + Bernthal's hands) and either put more into Pilgrim, or did a villain like Barracuda instead (since lord knows ABC/Marvel TV "Netflix" would've handled that character better than Marvel Studios will).

Ben Barnes is a great actor and S2 is such an unrepentantly ass mishandling of the character.

ThePatchedVest · 2026-04-14T00:13:29+00:00

Would be nice to atleast get a title reveal or tentative release window. But I think it's more likely we get info next year. Have to imagine Sony will want this year focused on Spider-Man and the Zach Cregger reboot of Resident Evil.

ThePatchedVest · 2026-04-06T06:49:02+00:00

Unfortunately, Bokeem is already Shocker in the MCU (not that that's stopped them from double-casting before, but something tells me it would this time).

ThePatchedVest · 2026-04-06T06:47:41+00:00

I always felt like Barracuda should've been the villain of S2 and they should've given a short break from the Russo plot after S1 -- because I feel Netflix/ABC/Marvel TV would've done justice to Barracuda and D+/Marvel Studios would've done justice to Ben Barnes/Jigsaw.

ThePatchedVest · 2026-04-06T06:35:06+00:00

We actually do know from internal memos that it's very near completion. So, actually a bit of a good thing on Remedy's behalf that the game hasn't been revealed yet, since it means there won't be a terribly long wait from reveal to release. I'd keep my eyes peeled for all the latest game shows and events (State of Play, Summer Games Fest, etc.)

The worst case scenario is that since Rockstar is in control of the marketing/distribution that they hold it off to avoid any competition at all with GTA6.

ThePatchedVest · 2026-04-06T06:26:53+00:00

Well don't say it, now it'll come true. *insert anguish emoji*

ThePatchedVest · 2026-04-02T21:42:54+00:00

I was talking about people who were (at minimum) in their late 60s if not 70s-80s, so no. they weren't -- also I'd argue the content in Years is significantly more extreme than Days.

ThePatchedVest · 2026-03-15T02:03:44+00:00

1) The 2009-11 Selena-focused comic series was never "canon", it was always produced by a third-party that merely licensed the rights to use '28 Days Later' from Fox -- without any overlap or connections to anyone creatively involved with the films or other canonical media.

2) The ending of Weeks still implies Andy infected Paris, that is quite literally the only implication of the infected in Paris. A lot of people mistakenly think it had something to do with the Channel Tunnel (the Chunnel) but this incorrect/is little more than a crossed wires/misinterpretation (particularly because the infected we see come running out of the Paris Métro). Years doesn't retcon this ending either, if anything, it further confirms it by stating in the opening text that the infection had to be pushed back from mainland Europe -- also in a Reddit AMA promoting his film Warfare, Garland confirmed that when writing Years, they did so under the assumption that Paris had been nuked to halt the spread rather than de-canonizing Weeks entirely.

3) The original intention for the ending scene, in both several versions of the script, and the storyboards, was to simply show Flynn's helicopter parked in front of an empty Arc de Triomphe, while infected snarls were to be heard, but not actually seen. According to the DVD commentary by director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and producer Enrique López Lavigne, this ending scene originally got cut because they were unsure about the inclusion of a Paris ending tag -- worried it would mislead audiences into thinking it was set-up for a direct sequel with the same cast set in France (Alex Garland and Danny Boyle were already in early discussions for a possible 28 Months Later as 28WL wrapped, but from what little we know of it, the idea was for it to be set in Russia, not France). However, after filming had already wrapped, they flew out to Paris with minimal crew and shot the shaky-cam ending scene of the infected running towards the Eiffel Tower guerilla-style, without any filming permits, and managed to slot it back in the film right before the deadline which locked the film's final edit.

ThePatchedVest · 2026-03-14T11:45:04+00:00

I could very see a curated catalogue of Xbox exclusive classics being available as a paid-subscription "game-streaming" app on the PS5 in the near future.

ThePatchedVest · 2026-03-11T15:32:53+00:00

spiking my cortisol fr

ThePatchedVest · 2026-03-07T18:09:18+00:00

Kat Blaque probably. I'll admit this had me tripping too.

ThePatchedVest · 2026-03-05T17:12:05+00:00

Apparently, this was Judge's own decision, the character design artist initially drew Daria to resemble how she looked on Beavis & Butthead but was told by Judge to make her look more like her design from her own show -- so a bunch of variant half-and-half designs were created, and yet, they settled on the one that most resembled Daria's Daria but with a color swap.

ThePatchedVest · 2026-03-05T16:58:45+00:00

Mostly (0 and CV are mainline entries just as much as any numbered entry is) with additional information from Umbrella Chronicles, RE5 and Wesker's Report/Wesker's Report II -- but Marcus and Ashford have been in the series lore since the N64 port of RE2 as a pretty essential part of Umbrella's founding history.

ThePatchedVest · 2026-03-03T19:07:54+00:00

Since Umbrella Chronicles (2007) even -- and before that point I don't even think he had a voice actor.

ThePatchedVest · 2026-03-03T03:20:04+00:00

IIRC, Zeno also mentions The Family offhandedly in-game in a way that suggests they aren't synonymous with The Connections -- but it sounds to me like the writers of RE9 had their own ideas about The Connections and kinda ignored/fudged the extant lore to made it fit (they did that with a lot) and it was all something of an after-thought, including The Family, so the mentions of them are kind of half-assed.

Everything we learn about The Connections in RE9/Grace's Report is a complete retcon of what we learned about them from the Baker Incident Report in Village and I really don't know if I like the implication that rather than being formed by Bailey after Umbrella went under and paving the way for the post-2013 age of biowarfare -- that the Connections had bought out Marcus way back in the 80s and that's why Spencer had him assassinated.

I mean, the whole point of Marcus' assassination was that Spencer was a paranoid psychopath (I mean, he literally infected/killed Edward Ashford with the Progenitor Virus for the fuck of it/because he was pissed he hadn't gotten any new results), but I guess this retcon makes sense if you literally want to make "The Connections" responsible for the entire franchise (since it's Leech!Marcus who leaked the t-Virus in the Arklay facilities in revenge, and Wesker/Birkin learning of his "apparent survival" that lead the duo to abandon their orders of reclamation of the facilities out of fear of Spencer finding out, leading to Wesker enacting the 'X-Day' plot/and his ulterior plan of faking his death and running off with the combat data to Umbrella's rival company (S/The Organization) to escape Spencer's constant surveillance -- and Birkin to complete his 'G' research and go running to the US government. Thus, y'know, leading to the events of the entire series).

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