Netflix's Resident Evil TV show and movie reboot Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City really should have swapped formats to tell their stories. Divisive as they may have been among fans of the games, the Milla Jovovich Resident Evil movies were wildly successful. The six films grossed over 1.2 billion collectively, but with The Final Chapter wrapping up Alice's storyline, the next step forward for the live-action Resident Evil movie series wasn't clear. 4m4l31

With it recently emerging that budget cuts were responsible for limiting the potential of Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, it's a disappointing sign for fans of the most well-liked Resident Evil movie in recent years. Whereas the Resident Evil Netflix series alienated fans for a perceived lack of respect of the source material, Welcome to Raccoon City was a more faithful attempt at an adaptation of the massive series.

Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City was intended to reboot the horror movie franchise, but budget cuts doomed it before it hit screens. The Milla Jovovich Resident Evil movies always received mixed to poor reviews, but they were hugely profitable worldwide. The Final Chapter marked the last outing of the Jovovich era, and it was decided to reboot the property with a movie leaning closer to its video game origins. Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down) was hired to write and direct and was himself a fan of the games. Sadly, Welcome To Raccoon City was also met with bad notices and underwhelming box office.

James Wan nearly produced Resident Evil's movie reboot, and if he had, he may have saved the 2021 film. The Milla Jovovich Resident Evil movies were incredibly successful - collectively grossing over $1.2 billion worldwide - but critically, they were often panned. Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City was a total reboot of the series, and promised to be much more faithful to its gaming source material. While it carried a more overt horror tone and included fan-favorite characters and monsters, it was a major letdown. It suffered from too many subplots and lacklustre CGI effects in addition to stilted performances and dialogue.

Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City did little to separate itself from the previous movies, and should have added the Hunter creatures from the games. Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City is the 2021 reboot of the movie franchise. This followed in the wake of the Milla Jovovich film series, which ran from 2002 to 2017. While the six movies in the Jovovich saga received fairly bad reviews, they was also hugely success.

Following the cancelation of the Netflix show and underperformance of 2021 movie reboot, where should the Resident Evil film franchise go next? The original Resident Evil video game started life as a remake of a cult 1989 title called Sweet Home, which popularized many of the mechanics that would form the survival horror genre. Resident Evil was an unexpected smash hit and became a beloved series that's still running to this day.

While the games are beloved, movie and TV show adaptations of the Resident Evilfranchise keep failing – yet it shouldn't be that hard to get right. The Resident Evil game series has covered all kinds of genres, stories, tones, and ideas, meaning that there are plenty of ways a great adaptation could go. However, the recent failures of Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon Cityand Netflix's Resident Evil have proven that, for some reason, the studios just can't get it right.

With subsequent live-action adaptations meeting largely mixed reviews, the best move for the Resident Evil franchise is to bring back Milla Jovovich's Alice for a legacy sequel. Video game movies are one of the most critically reviled subgenres - often with good reason. Outside of the occasional gem like 1995's Mortal Kombat, it's a genre littered with mediocre to terrible output like Super Mario Bros, Max Payne or Uncharted. Very few spawn franchises of their own either, though Resident Evil is the rare exception.

The Resident Evil brand is as popular now as it was 20 years ago when the original game was remade, with more recent remakes of the classic games recapturing the world's attention and new ideas, like a new live-action series on Netflix that strays from the typical formula, keeping its future interesting.

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City's sequel chances seem high, according to star Tom Hopper. The 2021 movie acted as a reboot of Constantin Films' big-screen franchise as writer/director Johannes Roberts sought to closer adapt Capcom's survival horror video games, merging the stories of the first two titles. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City was set in 1998 and revolves around a group of police officers in the titular Midwestern town as it comes under siege from a zombie outbreak.