The four Resident Evil films from Paul W.S. Anderson have been successful and certainly have a following, but they’re somewhat infamous among some fans of the titular game series. Star Milla Jovovich indicates she got some backlash from fans who aren’t fond of Alice (a character created for the movies that’s not in the games).
There are, like, 15 people in the world that spend all day really hating me. Like horrifically hating me with a passion. They’re always writing, said Jovovich. I tell them: ‘Why don’t you just write a script ‘ But if you ask one hardcore fan about something, they’d disagree with that hardcore fan over there.
Another hardcore fan might think the hunters should have been in the movie. And what are the hunters They’re big frogs, she added. There are a lot of characters in the Resident Evil games that are not very photogenic.
When asked if she’s won people over, Jovovich said, All I can tell from my twitter page is that there are a lot of fans of Resident Evil that love Alice and the franchise who feel that, if you want the game, play the game. The game is such a sprawling world. You can’t please everybody and hardcore fans are hardcore fans and you’re never going to please them, no matter how many oversized frogs or giant bees you put in.
Alice was never part of the Resident Evil videogame world. When I first met with Paul for the first Resident Evil, I said I wanted to be Jill Valentine,” continued Jovovich. He said: ‘Yeah, but people don’t know who Jill Valentine is. Only a small group of people play this game and there’s a potentially huge audience out there. But if we have to talk about the history of Jill, there’s such a storyline for those characters – you don’t want to get stuck having to use Capcom’s storylines.’ Capcom changes a VP and suddenly the storyline changes. So he needed to create a character that was a bit more like the audience: the innocent coming into this who they can relate to without needing to know her history.
Source: CVG
