Just read Romero's original RE script

[J.R.]

And it's good. Romero's deft hand only goes to prove the already proven-to-death ineptitude of Paul Anderson. It's only a first draft, so the few weaknesses inherent in the screenplay are excusable. What I liked most was its fast pace. It picks up and doesn't slow down. It also stays true to the games, with the same characters and IT ACTUALLY HAS ZOMBIES. Now Anderson's RE sucks even more, when I thought it barely had enough room to suck further. Here's what might have been-

http://phoenixgenesis.com/vgames/stories/resident-evil/rescript.html

p.s.-Also just recently read Romero's original Day Of The Dead Script, and it was disappointing.

[nshumate]

Agreed on the original Day of the Dead script.  Romero was hoping for more money, and thus wrote a more expansive story -- but the lower budget forced him back into a claustrophobic microcosm, which is where a lot of the power of the first two had come from anyway.

I did like the idea that the first person who DOESN'T come back from the dead is revered as a saint.

Nathan

[Iressivor]

I read (and somewhat skimmed) over Romero's RE script.  While it isn't bad, time has proven that it's insanely difficult to make a live-action movie based on a video game, particularly one that will both please the fans of the game and still make a killing at the box office with mainstream movie goers.  Unfortunately, the two factions want completely different things, which is why few video game-based films have ever been a success.

The former wants nothing less than a dead-on adaptation of their favorite video game, while the latter would much rather see an original script with a decent plot and good acting, instead of a clone of some computer game that their kids usually play at home.  Merely catering to one audience instead of the other is an instant recipe for failure.  Even if Romero's script DID remain faithful to the Resident Evil franchise, video gamers, despite being a veritable sub-culture, aren't quite as numerous as some folks tend to believe.  By segregating one group in favor of the other, the filmmakers would essentially be shooting themselves in the foot, not to mention raising the ire of the contemporary audience who haven't even the slightest clue about what they're seeing on screen.  

That said, I think Paul Anderson did the best he could.  Being a fan of the RE series, I saw Resident Evil in theaters, and I myself was pleased with it.  I thought it was a nice tribute to the fans of the game, all things considered.  

LOL, but hey, what do I know?  I'm a fan of Albert Pyun films!

[Steven Millan]

                       Too bad that "Resident Evil",and not the cinemtaic abomination that was "Bruiser",wasn't the film to pull Romero out of his ten year absence,for the studio probably canned it due to the excessive gore that Romero is best known for.