Constantin Film

I mean, it's far more flawed, but that's what happens when you throw a lot of money at stuff, and then...

It's funny that movie being a Davis Impact feature, Constantine Films, responsible for Resident Evil, the original, the Paul W.S. Anderson franchise, and how they were actually rather adverse to the idea of gore.

They're the guys who shot down the idea of George Romero's Resident Evil.

Wow.

think.

Chandler Riggs did post something I think it actually just dropped today um saying like if oh you know I'd be interested it not that I think it would happen of course so but uh he's like oh I'd be interested now I think it would happen if Constantine Films wanted to like pick up a project like this and maybe he's interested in working with me and taking this further I don't know that we could really do much more ourselves with how expensive this was.

But I think something like this would be good for a series of something.

So do seven and eight is like what I envision for how I have it planned out in my head would probably be about six episodes each.

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Like, look at Constantin Films.

They're fucking, they're fucking knocking out Resident Evil movies just to stay afloat.

Just to keep the contract.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And Constantin Films are like, "Let's let him do it.

Let's let him do it, but, y- we'll just call it Resident Evil 'cause oh, shit, if we don't make a new Resident Evil film the rights go back to Capcom."

Oh, yeah.

Uh, so, so Constantin Films like quickly got some sh- got some stuff together and, and, and, and made a Resident Evil movie.

Before we get into that, though, we're, uh, it's the spooky season, so we're gonna bring back Horror In A Hurry.

Yeah, it's been, it's been a minute actually, uh-

Yeah.

That's an interesting one about them taking bids, because I do know that the Resident Evil franchise movie rights are with a production company or distributor called Constantine Films, and they produce them all.

But obviously, like you said, you know, PlayStation Productions won out on this.

And...

To me, this seems like it's been envisioned as this one-off, rather than the start of a new franchise, if that makes sense.

That might change.

It might make enough money where Sony and Constantine Films say, let's just use this as our benchmark, our baseline.

Let's go from here.

That, that, that, that'll figure things out.

Oh, uh, uh, uh, speaking, uh, fucking Constantin Films made only one edit to this movie when Cregger was doing the screenplay.

Apparently...

So you know Paul Walter Hauser's character, the guy in the car who, like, dropped the serum back at the lab and caused this more or less?

Um, uh, he was a woman in the original screenplay.

The, the badass operative guy played by True Detective Night Country, uh, was a guy, and Richard Jewell was played by a girl.

And Constantin Films was like, "Nope, we do not want a girl to be the cause of the zombie outbreak.

That's our only demand." And otherwise, they let him have basically, like, full, uh, artistic license over the whole thing.

Here's the thing before we get into the review.

It has been noted that Krager, by his own admission, had made up the script for this movie before he was contacted by Sony or Constantine Films to make it a Resident Evil movie.

He wrote, in my opinion, this is what happened, and several people on the internet, this is not just me speaking this, According to his own volition, his own admission, he had this script already ready, and he repurposed it.

I think he had his own version of John Carpenter's The Thing, like a pseudo version of it.

He was offered the IP for Resident Evil.

Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching.

The money just ran all over the place because they needed to keep the license, Constantine Films, because they hadn't made a movie since Welcome to Raccoon City, and they were about to lose the IP.

And they needed somebody to be the patsy to make one, and here we go.

So, uh, in January of 2025 it was announced that Craig here would co-write and direct a new Resident Evil film which would serve as a, as a reboot, uh, to the film series.

Film rights holder Constantin Films co-financed and produced alongside PlayStation Productions and Vertical Entertainment.

A bidding war erupted between four major studios for distribution rights, which included Warner Brothers and Netflix.

Wow.

Absolutely.

So this movie was produced through Constantine Films with PlayStation Productions that were also involved.

So Sony was the one that released this movie.

They filmed most of it in the Czech Republic and principal photography ran from October 13th.