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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: How the Video Game Mechanics of Resident Evil Inspired Zach Cregger’s New Cinematic Reboot · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Director Zack Kreger's first two movies, Barbarian and Weapons, were
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  Speaker 2: instant horror classics born entirely out of his own imagination.
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  Speaker 2: And while his new third movie, Resident Evil, sticks to
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  Speaker 2: the horror genre, this one is based on an existing IP,
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  Speaker 2: one of the most popular video game franchises of all time.
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  Speaker 3: There's also been multiple Resident Evil movies, but Zack's film
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  Speaker 3: is deeply and directly inspired by the games. And that's
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  Speaker 3: not to say he doesn't also put his own trademark
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  Speaker 3: fingerprints all over it by analyzing the games in a
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  Speaker 3: different way.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he didn't copy the way that the games look
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  Speaker 4: necessarily as much as the mechanics how you play. So
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  Speaker 4: how you have to find one thing or another to advance,
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  Speaker 4: he uses an example of a game character needing a
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  Speaker 4: key to open a door.
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  Speaker 2: Which is a very video game side quest. So he
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  Speaker 2: literally said, okay, let's implement that into the movie.
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  Speaker 5: Because while it's standard in a video game, it's not
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  Speaker 5: in cinema.
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  Speaker 2: He tells IndieWire it's fun to implement that into a
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  Speaker 2: movie because you don't usually have a scene where a
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  Speaker 2: character is simply trying to find keys.
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  Speaker 3: He's looking for keys while zombies are looking for him.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Resident Evil arrives tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.