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Here's a list of tons of leftist movies.
lawyers are running everything into the dirt.
by creating a property tied to an IP, it extends the life of the underlying IP and expands the defendable property under the underlying IP. usually an option to make a movie comes with a sunset where the option expires, so taking an idea and then pasting IP onto it "solves" a problem.
for a lawyer's brain there is no downside to making Colgate Toothpaste: The Movie using a script that has nothing to do with it.
Investors won't risk it on an original piece of work. Much safer bet to invest in an established brand.
So any writers with original ideas have to jam them into an existing IP to have any hope of getting it off the ground.
The end result is nobody gets what they want. The writer doesn't get to write their own true material, the original fans of the video game don't get an accurate story to their liking, and everyone else will be put off by their existing thoughts of the video game.
But this sounds exactly like a movie Blumhouse would make! That plot as described is like the one type of new IP that still can be made!
Man I hated how they pulled this shit with the World War Z movie. That was such a fucking cool book, and then the movie had absolutely nothing to do with it at all, with the singular exception that they both had zombies. I would even say describing that as a movie is generous, it was more of a screen saver than anything.
Israel being depicted as a walled fortress surrounded by hordes of evil zombies is an ideological trash bin that's fun to jump in though.
Cried laughing at the scene where they have to escort the scientist to save the world and 3.5 seconds into the mission he slips on the landing pad and domes himself with his sidearm. Cinematic genius
That is actually funny though lmao
“Until Don” and the villain is a dang cheeto 
Everything in America was going perfect...
until Don
Obviously i know the reason is in theory money but come on.
But don’t video game movies notoriously flop? Whereas horror movies almost always turn a profit.
That plot sounds like a totally run of the mill Blumhouse movie. Just make a horror movie. It’s fine.
That might be changing with stuff like the Sonic and Mario movies, tho obv. this would prob. have a significantly different target audience.
Game series that is largely about player choice influencing narrative
Ah yes this is the perfect movie tie-in franchise
I just want a Resident Evil movie that doesn't suck ass.
The original game is like 25% whodunit with the Wesker reveal so its basically Clue with zombies and puzzles. With a good writer it could be fantastic.
Who does Tim Curry play? Tyrant? The plant? The shark?
Itchy Tasty, with a musical number
That's if this is even accurate
Rumoured in this context basically means "I made it up" 
Was the game good? It’s one of those I remember hearing a lot about but never looked into
It was decent. If you want a playable slasher movie, it’s that. So I enjoyed it a lot.
Personally I’d recommend playing it with a partner or friend where you switch off who’s driving. In the same way as a slasher movie it’s more enjoyable with company.
Their follow-up The Quarry is decently fun too, if you're into that sort of thing. It's definitely not everybody's cup of tea.
