![]() ![]() ![]() In 1986, George Romero began work on his adaptation of H.G. The project, however, failed to take off after Capcom and Sony Pictures ultimately passed on Romero’s version of the story and took a more action-oriented route with Paul W.S. Romero’s version would have not only been more violent than the movie we would eventually get but was also more faithful to the source material and was primarily set in the game’s Spencer Mansion and focused on Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine. This live-action commercial ( which can be viewed here) was enough to impress Sony Pictures executives who asked Romero to not only write but direct a film adaptation of the original 1996 game. Romero’s failed Resident Evil movie, it is revealed that the horror legend first crossed paths with the franchise when he was asked to direct a Japanese commercial for the 1998 video game Resident Evil 2 (or Biohazard 2 in Japan). Romero’s involvement with Resident Evil might stop with his failed attempt to get the movie off the ground, but his story actually starts several years earlier. ![]() Anderson’s 2002 horror-action flick, George Romero was tasked with writing multiple scripts, all of which were not used. ![]() We previously discussed this in our rundown of the Resident Evil behind-the-scenes facts, but in the early stages of Paul W.S. ![]()
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