KK wrote:Basing it in the streets of Racoon City ala Resident Evil 2 and 3 makes the most sense to me for an episodic drama.
Even that would be a large improvement - I don't mind TV shows taking liberties with the game story because it's all very flimsy but the complete departure and varying-degrees-of-turd Paul W. S. Anderson films just make me sad.
What I'd really like to see is a four episode mini-series documenting the outbreak in the Arklay Mountains. You could structure it like:
Episode 1 - mysterious murders in the mountain, S.T.A.R.S. Bravo team have gone AWOL after an investigation, Alpha team mobilise and get to the mansion at the end.
Episode 2 - Brad Vickers strawberry floats off, the surviving Alpha team members are separated within the mansion - Barry and Jill, Chris and Wesker. They explore the mansion and find it full of bizarre traps, and Chris disappears. The giant snake arrives and Jill kills it.
Episode 3 - Wesker regroups with Barry and Jill, everybody splits up to find a way out of the mansion. Jill stumbles across Bravo's Enrico Marini on the grounds, he's killed by a gunshot wound after warning her of a traitor in the S.T.A.R.S. team. She finds the lab, and is ambushed by Barry on Wesker's orders as she enters.
Episode 4 - Basically the game's lab sequence. Wesker's outed as the villain, Barry and Jill fight the Tyrant and rescue Chris, Vickers un-fucks off and everybody escapes. Wesker's fate is uncertain to set up future series. The mini-series ends with a lone zombie encroaching on a suburb of Raccoon City. A ten episode proper series follows, intertwining Jill's Resident Evil 3 experience and Leon/Claire's Resident Evil 2 experience.
Bosh, there it is.