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Following on the footsteps for their most recent short film "The Keeper's Diary" based on the original file from RE1, which featured Charlie Kraslavsky, who originally played Chris Redfield in the original RE1 cutscenes, as the Keeper in the film, the people behind the "Residence of Evil" have been hard at work on their upcoming short film, which will feature the original cast from RE1 in live action, with each actor reprising their roles from 30 years ago.

The plot for "Resurrection: A Biohazard Story" takes place in 2021 in a town called Rosa Enferma located in Mexico that has been the victim of a recent outbreak. The film sees all the survivors from the Spencer Mansion incident in 1998 being brought back into action to fight back an old nemesis, one previously thought to be dead... twice.

Years after the mansion incident, a biohazard outbreak spreads through Rosa Enferma, a remote town in Mexico. Chris, Barry, Jill, and Rebecca are pulled back into the nightmare as Albert Wesker resurfaces and a new bioterror threat emerges.

Unfortunately, the original actress for Jill, the elusive "Inezh", is not returning to reprise her role and will instead be recast, and while she has indeed been found (and she apparently even worked on a role for 007: Agent Under Fire), most likely she's not interested in being involved with this, but as for the rest of the cast, all of them will be reprising the role as follows:

• Charlie Kraslavsky as Chris Redfield
• Greg Smith as Barry Burton
• Eric Pirius as Albert Wesker
• Linda as Rebecca Chambers

Even voice actors that previously worked on Resident Evil will also be making a return for this fanfilm:

• Pablo Kuntz (original Wesker)
• Joe Whyte (2002 Chris Redfield)
• Ward Sexton (the voice of “Resident Evil”)

The film is currently undergoing post-production, and is set to release on the Residence of Evil YouTube channel on March 22nd, 2026.
Those interested in continuing to crowdfund the project can do so by visiting this link.

Residence of Evil YouTube Channel

 

[depaul]

Just a (stupid) idea: can they use AI to make the whole movie? while still paying actors their royalties.

 

[munnimann]

Africa, 2009

 

[doorbell8423]

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[Exnor]

Just a (stupid) idea: can they use AI to make the whole movie? while still paying actors their royalties.

Why? Why already have so much "AI" slop, do you want even more?

 

[wurstpistole]

Just a (stupid) idea: can they use AI to make the whole movie? while still paying actors their royalties.

You're right, this is a stupid idea. No one wants more Ai in arts - I don't want to watch Ai generated movies, I don't want to listen to Ai generated music and I don't want to play Ai generated games.

 

[ShadowOne333]

Just a (stupid) idea: can they use AI to make the whole movie? while still paying actors their royalties.

They could yeah, but I guess they wanted to make it as much of a proper film rather than an AI film, and having the original cast back in action for a proper film is the actual selling point in this case.
They do specify also that no generative AI was used for the fanfilm.

I have nothing against AI, but I find it nice that they're pushing for having the original actors that started the franchise reprising their roles 30 years later, feels like more of a proper celebration than what Capcom is doing right now, as least for now and aside from Requiem.

 

[LoggerMan]

Looks bad. But with the original cutscene cast I suppose it can't be anything else but good.

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They could yeah, but I guess they wanted to make it as much of a proper film rather than an AI film, and having the original cast back in action for a proper film is the actual selling point in this case.
They do specify also that no generative AI was used for the fanfilm.

I have nothing against AI, but I find it nice that they're pushing for having the original actors that started the franchise reprising their roles 30 years later, feels like more of a proper celebration than what Capcom is doing right now, as least for now and aside from Requiem.

I think at this very moment in time, $270k makes you a better short fan film with traditional methods than trying to make it all with AI. You'd need creators experienced with AI and to get it right, to iron out all the mistakes, you could easily blow through the whole $270k budget and end up with something that looks off and will get the scorn and mockery of the whole Internet. 12 months from now I bet $270k will get you a lot more with AI than it will with traditional filmmaking though. We are getting closet the tipping point of taking AI in films for granted. AI will be a LOT cheaper than traditional CGI, though it'll still be expensive because you still gotta have taste, a filmmakers eye, to do it right. It'll take many more years before AI can think like a filmmaker and understand what is required from a shot or a scene or a whole movie.

 

[k66]

I watched the trailer, and the quality is excellent.

I saw the producer's reply: 'No AI was used. The post-production special effects were also entirely completed through manual modeling.'

 

[isoboy]

Eric Roberts most likely in it too.