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The Resident Evil movie universe is being rebooted

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After eighteen years and six questionable movies, the Resident Evil movie universe is finally being rebooted. According to the director, the movie will have faithful ties to the original games.

The movie will feature the iconic night of 1998, where the S.T.A.R.S. members fought fiercely for their lives. The first Resident Evil game is probably among the best survival horror games ever made.

Resident Evil will be directed by Johannes Roberts, who you might know from movies such as The Strangers and 47 Meters Down. Based on his filmography most of his films are within the horror genre, and Resident Evil is definitely a game filled with horrors.

“With this movie, I really wanted to go back to the original first two games and re-create the terrifying visceral experience I had when I first played them whilst at the same time telling a grounded human story about a small dying American town that feels both relatable and relevant to today’s audiences”.

How about the casting you might ask. Well, starring as S.T.A.R.S are Robbie Amell from Upload as Chris Redfield, Hannah John-Kamen from Ant–Man 2 as Jill Valentine. The rest of the cast is Kaya Scodelario from Maze Runner as Claire Redfield, and Avan Jogia from Zombieland 2 as Leon S. Kennedy. The two main baddies will be Tom Hopper from The Umbrella Academy as Albert Wesker, and Neal McDonough from Yellowstone as William Birkin.

“After a dozen games, six live-action movies and hundreds of pages of fan fiction, we felt compelled to return to the year 1998, to explore the secrets hidden in the walls of the Spenser Mansion and Raccoon City.”

Now this is a bit confusing, whoever played the game knows that Leon and Claire played no part in the first game. The mansion incident takes place in the Arklay Mountains, approximately two months prior to Resident Evil 2 & 3. Resident Evil 3 takes place a day before Resident Evil 2, and both of them occur in Raccoon City.

That means the movie will probably feature all characters in the same place, or they will show both stories in the same movie. They could also end the film with Lean and Claire arriving in Raccoon City, which is exactly how the second game begins.

Of course, this is just a speculation, and they might go a completely different way. Even so, I highly doubt it can be any worse compared to the previous movies.

Below you can see the cast of Resident Evil.

BossLogic has also created a fan artwork for this movie with the new cast.

https://twitter.com/Bosslogic/status/1313718194310324225

Thanks Deadline.

103 thoughts on “The Resident Evil movie universe is being rebooted”

  3. Like the Resident Evil name wasn’t pummelled enough in the movie industry already. Now we get this reeking pile of racial checklist bulls**t, as the cherry on top.

    Should be absolutely hilarious, if nothing else.

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    1. I hardly doubt this will be one of those “so bad it turns good” kind of movie.
      But one thing i don’t doubt is the cappacity of the insanes to one up themselves, so may be there is hope.

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    2. What? You want every character to be white or something? No one but white people wants to see that….

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    1. Everyone should mind the racially “determined” casting. Nobody in here would give a rat’s a**, if Leon had been paki the entire time in the games.

      The racially “determined” casting, is what makes me disregard this entire thing, before I’ve seen a single frame of it.

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      1. If you can’t even get such a single thing right, how can we trust you to get any of the little details right? It’s off to a terrible start.

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        1. Good point. I never looked at it like that. I just hated the swapping because is inauthentic but i like your take on it. Might have to borrow that from you homie.

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    3. ” According to the director, the movie will have faithful ties to the original games.”

      that also means the movies will flop right where the games flopped.
      there’s just no way around it for the movies.

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        1. Quite a few RE titles flopped. Umbrella Corps for example. Operation Raccoon City. 6 was very expensive to make, sales below expectations,

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          1. Umbrella Corps is just a dumb spin off and RE6 was RE5 on steroids, which turned people off, the main series is fine and the movies are going for the RE classic feel (kinda).

  7. Er…. is it too late to ask Paul W. Andersen to come back? This woke trash looks far worse than his butcherings.

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  9. Yeah no thx, the only canon for me will be what I choose from past games, I dont need this sh$t on my consciousness

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  10. I m not racist or anything, but really ? a black actress for a white character ??? enough is enough, Plus Leon looks like gonna be some pakistani terrorist

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          1. Whoever are the ones moving the strings in the entertainment media forcing diversity for diversity sake. Unless is ok to support a double standard: is Ok to replace white characters with black actors, but is not ok to replace black characters with white actors.

          2. You still didn’t answer the question definitively. I’m gonna make it simple for you. Because y’all are quick to point out blacks do this and black washing that, but when I ask the core and the root, I get ring around the Rosie answers. Brace yourself homie, cause this might trigger you…. The answer is, WHITE PEOPLE!!!

            The same White People that wanna look virtuous and pioneering to OTHER WHITE PEOPLE! The Same child Fuqin & Pizzagate Hustling WHITE PEOPLE! A.k.a White Liberals. But that Liberal/Conservative Schitt is a waste of time, so I’ll just keep it simple. Don’t Dodge around the question because you were quick to say black this and black that. But when I asked for the source, we started to play a game of dodgeball. I have nothing against you Homie, we need keep it fair for everyone in every scenario and not just Cherry pick.

          3. Yeah… they are Jewish now? If they didn’t do any of this they’d be white to you. Well news Flash those Hollywood Jews ARE WHITE. That’s why they call themselves “Jew-ISH”. The term Jew-ISH came about when the Germanic tribes and the rest of Northern EU started to mix in with the Jews. You have alot of history to catch upon son. Spend more time reading and less time coming up with catchy racial slurs. It might do you good. THEY ARE WHITE! and I don’t care because it doesn’t reflect on all white people. All people aren’t the same. So I’m not at to get into this nonsensical back and forth. No ORIGINATING Jew calls themselves Jew-ISH.

          5. Sorry to poop on your SOYcialist parade, but Jews are considered part of the caucasian demographic.
            Obviously, you couldn’t keep your retarded BS in OAG, but here I am, to lay some facts into your inbred brain.

          6. Sorry to p**p on your SOYcialist parade, but Jews are considered part of the caucasian demographic.
            Obviously, you couldn’t keep your ‘tarded BS in OAG, but here I am, to lay some facts into your inbred brain.

          7. Most jews look white (their skin is white) but if you analize most of their0 traits you can identify them pretty easily. They use the fact that they look white in appearance to help subvert and manipulate those around them.

            And about the US election, whoever wins we lose as any one of them will be controlled by Israel.

          8. You know what i notice about you, you’re education is limited to the Youtube/U.S region and this is why you talk so much garbage. You say a small amount of facts, which we ALL already know. In order to reel in supporters. For example, Jews and the transatlantic Slave trade (that’s not news to any of us on here). but once you are challenged you throw in a low hanging fruit like “And about the US election, whoever wins we lose as any one of them will be controlled by Israel.” You Know ZERO about the “Is” The “Ra” & The “El”. I told you the facts about Jews vs JEW-ISH, 2 other people here with way more in depth knowledge broke it down for you and you REFUSE to LISTEN. I now understand why you race to see how can come up with the most clever racial slur, on just about EVERY DSOG article.. You have the nerve to tell me that we should come together against the JEWS, when you are Calling my women “NiGGRESS”, you are DELUSIONAL.

            I’ll tell you this much, a war is coming and i suggest you change your ways cause you are ALONE buddy. This Plandemic ain’t no where near over & Those racists A$$ views you have, most WHITE people have dropped that garbage. Your only actual allies will be probably indians from india, cause they hate themselves and especially BLACKS. SO whaddya know, your only allies will be the “Street Schitters” like you call them. LMAO, change your ways man. You think you’re right, even though you’re wrong and that’s what makes you so dangerous.

          10. OK? and? why should i be simpathetic with the actors? is even worse that they are taking a job for their race instead of their talent. At the end of the day they get their check. And you are claiming that only white people in Hollywood are in positions of power to take those decisions…you have proof of that? or just a historical bias? You are striking me as some kind of noble protector of minorities pretending to be centrist. I will make it easy for you with an example, i would be equally bother with a cast of Ada Wong with a black/white/latino/you name it actress..anything but asian.

          11. Sorry to p**p on your SOYcialist parade, but Jews are considered part of the caucasian demographic.
            Obviously, you couldn’t keep your ‘tarded BS in OAG, but here I am, to lay some facts into your inbred brain.

          14. He’s right if you look at how all this nonsense started with the Universities brainwashing the kids. Most normal sane black people are just as sick of it all as we are.

          16. So if these jews are incharge why are you so fuqin racists at every turn that you see a black person in a movie or game, knowing that we ain’t responsible. Why do you call the black woman a “Niggress” and the Brown dude, a “Street Schitter”. You are a stone cold racists, i’d have more respect for you if you’d just be racists and own it instead of always scapegoating. You make literally no sense, “it’s the jews & oh yeah Fuq the niggress and the street Schitters”, I never responded to your vitriol before because i know deep down you are what you are and you will never own a damn thing, you will just keep doing what you do. And i’m literally wasting my time trying to talk to you. I’m about to take my own advice actually. All and all you are Bad PR for White people. If i was white i would bully your A$$ everyday in school, just like how i a black man use to Bully those fake A$$ gangsta black kids when i was in school. because we don’t need people like you bruh.

          17. “Because nlggers are dumb enough to let them be used by klkes”

            So you just ignore all the white people doing the bidding of jews (both leftists and zionists) and claim they are incorruptible? Yeah, no, if anything, jews are better at strategic alliances with people they screw over, like blacks or arabs while petty racists like you burn bridges. Don’t be a petty racist, be a strategic racist if anything.

          18. I think people complicit in race swapping is partially responsible due to a love of money and a lack of self respect so you either get a man with women chest in the case of woman or some black dude playing a white character in behaviour and attitude, but it is what it is, there are no incorruptible race and you will find petty racists on any human subspecies.

            In the case of jews, they play the race card strategically, like how they used to engage in slave trade, then flipped to “help” blacks in civil rights, you have a Malcolm X avatar, look what did he say about jews for starters.

          19. I think people complicit in race swapping is partially responsible due to a love of money and a lack of self respect so you either get a man with b**bs in the case of woman or some black dude playing a white character in behaviour and attitude, but it is what it is, there are no incorruptible race and you will find petty racists on any human subspecies.

            In the case of jews, they play the race card strategically, like how they used to engage in slave trade, then flipped to “help” blacks in civil rights, you have a Malcolm X avatar, look what did he say about jews for starters.

      1. The problem with resident evil the original story itself is such a mess, so how in the world is the movie suppose to be any better. The Albert Wesker is who they need to focus on. Tell the story from his perspective and watch it shine. Well my opinion anyways and the cast is all wrong. The guy they have playing William should be who’s playing Wesker. That actor is a crazy villainous actor. An idiot did this casting.

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        1. RE series was a loveletter to b class movies with zombies, anything but Hollywood crap.
          And so far, the previous movies were that, with this cast it looks like they didnt learn any lesson.
          Agree on the previous Wesker, him was the best in that crap, almost spot on. I liked Jill in the second movie, but only in looks.

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        2. Yeah i don’t know how Capcom convinced themselves that they have some interesting lore or something, and i’m sick of their fans asking for a proper movie adaptation, what’s the point of being faithful to the games when the games themselves have flawed stories and characters ?! That means even the most faithful movie will be sh*t

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  14. It’s amazing how much these people try to work against the grain. If they just created new properties with their woke racial casting agenda, far less people would care. It would be a new property, so it’s open to their creation.

    When you start purposely and heavy-handedly changing the race of long-time characters with large and established fan bases, just to push a political agenda? You’re going to get heavy backlash. Stop preaching. It doesn’t have to be this turbulent.

    Go make a new movie with a racially diverse set of characters fighting zombies. See how that does on the market.

    Oh well. This one here, is another one for the dumpster fire.

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        1. Haha, I’ve been wondering where you’ve been Chris & now we know. Off torturing yourself with horrible movies. Oh Chris I will pray for you ?

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      1. That’s why you should stop supporting it and move on to find new more fulfilling hobbies. Because it’s only gonna get worse from here. They are programmed for this and you’re not. So you will have a very hard time navigating these waters.

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        1. Sure not the only one, and of course i don’t support them… I’m just looking from a big window the ending of this sick and twisted society.

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  18. WHHHY? Has anybody here actually watched all the Resident Evil movies? I watched 2 and was bored out of my mind. Sure people like different things. But I can’t imagine many ppl were clamouring for this. LOOOL

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  19. “After eighteen years and six questionable movies”
    The first two were alright, they’ll be better than this garbage, I can tell you that much Paul S knows his audience.
    Whoever choose Kaman as Jill Valentine needs to be punched in the mouth

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    1. Right?

      “Hola, chica. Me llamo Leon Martinez Lopez Rodriguez Garcia Gonzales………. Kennedy”

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  21. So can we now start to accuse Hollywood for colorwashing instead of whitewashing? Isn’t it racist to colorwash characters that are originally white?

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  23. You know as I looked at the cast I instantly saw the black and brown persons, I said to myself “don’t scroll to the comment section” and I did. I don’t like these race swaps more than the next person but what is always mind boggling to me is the amount of racist vitriol that y’all spew in these comment sections, it’s as if you just can’t wait & it’s a race to see who can come up with the most clever racists remark. But…. Before you come up with all the clever ways to be racists with your comments, I wish y’all would own the source of the problem.

    Last time I check these Black & Brown people didn’t put themselves in these moves. It’s your same “White Liberal Child Fuqin” Brothers in hollyweird that did. So, be racists all you want. You and I both know none of these actors have any power to parade themselves like a show dogs in these movies. Stay talking the bait. I saw a story that reminds me of the real culprit. But most of y’all are too dumb and too busy blaming everyone else for Fuqing up your perfect little white world, when it’s your own people. Y’all are sick & need help. This attached a picture, sums it all up. We are in dark times. This is the time to come together & destroy the common enemy instead you chose to be a closest racist on DSOG.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0b2292cc0682e30b027e10af224a9321b7786795d8b6562fe4c5a5c457227c3b.png

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    1. Only the dumbest people in the world take part in this manichean war between left and right while each one of them thinks he’s better, the people who rule the world know how to divide people, they’re certainly laughing at us when we act like these ants for their fake ideologies, i would upvote you twice if i can mate

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      1. Homie, thank you. That’s what bothers me so much. They are so Fuqin blind and ignorant. It’s sad because what they are doing on here is just straight up bad PR for white people. Because they (MSM) want you to believe that racism is a white vs everyone else problem and IT’S NOT! My woman is Chinese and I’m Black, we’re about to have a child together and her family is disowning her. I warned her of this 2 years ago when we first got together, she says she knows that Chinese people hate blacks and it will destroy her family but she doesn’t care because she’s more interested in making a new family than carry on this filth of a behavior.

        They can’t even put blacks on the movie posters in China. But yet the powers that be have people believing that racism is a white vs blacks/everyone else problem. And these people in the DSOG comment section doesn’t help that false Fuq’d up narrative. Another funny note, resident evil a game made by Japanese people about white people and it’s not even created by white people. LMAO, but yet these fools on here get so worked up. They don’t even see the trap or the bait. Too busy running the wrong race.

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        1. “Too busy running the wrong race”
          Maybe because it’s so easy to be wrong, sadly being wrong is the only option for a lot of people
          Keep going dude, the world’s not gonna change anytime soon, sometimes it’s good to focus on the most important things and forget about how things are f*cked up

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      2. “They’re censoring and ruining my media but it’s ok I’m not a dumbass like the people complaining or trying to stop it”
        “I am a centrist”
        Hilarious

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        1. And do you have a proper solution other than whining just like them ? Yeah i’m a centrist, that’s the healthiest position, the 2 extremes are just a bunch of sick morons complaining because they don’t accept each other and want the world to suit their tastes, and the people behind these agendas are always using their enemies to establish themselves
          Right : An immigrant has robbed a store, lets build a wall
          Left : A racist hurt my feelings, lets invade media

          “Trying to stop it”
          THIS, is hilarious, can you explain to me how insulting other people and communities will stop this ? Yeah it’s working great, people behind these agendas are already changing their mind since they read your comments, thank you for saving us
          BTW, i’ll give you some tips if you want things to change, the only thing that works with these guys is your wallet, don’t buy their sh*t, that’s the only thing that works, acting like an edgy kid with a keyboard is just what they need to justifie their behavior and keep doing their political business.

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          1. “the 2 extremes”
            One is classical liberal and the other is far left neoliberal, there’s only one extreme you f*king idiot.

          2. Dumbest sh*t i heard today, but i’m not even surprised… Never heard of right-wing extremism ? You’re either ignorant or lobotomized just enough to not question your convictions like the sheep you are, dumb enough to think that politicians are your friends, dumb enough to think that these leaders are fighting for ideology while they’re both bending the knee to the same lobbys and are just here to make sheep like you fight in their wars and keep people divided so they can quietly continue to f*ck the world over and over again, dumb enough to think that a guy with a different opinion on the internet is your enemy

          3. “Never heard of right-wing extremism ?”
            What the f*k does the opposite and barely existing extreme have to do with anything?
            Last I heard companies weren’t pandering and changing their entertainment products to Billy Joe Bob the Skinhead because he screamed really loud about minorities stealing his job on twitter.
            Last I heard companies weren’t donating to Little Hitler while his goons were burning and looting everything in the streets.

            But hey, at least you can pretend to be a martyr when they kick down your house, brownshirt style, at least you didn’t fall for bipartisan politics.

          4. Back in the 2000s the games were full of right-wing propaganda too, i do agree that it was better nonetheless but it was there, and leftists were in the very same position, there was a time a couple of decades ago where right extremists were doing a lot of sh*t without any action from the government, and they were not kidding at all, we’re not talking about a protest with an LGBT flag or a g*y reference in a movie but murders and burnt houses, stuff like that.
            Anyway, complaining never worked, whatever we say they keep doing their stuff and the gaming industry is bending the knee because it’s still working financially for them, the wallet is the only weapon we’ve got, racist comments only serve as fuel for these guys, they’re happy AF everytime they see that racism is still a thing

          5. Back in the 2000s the games were full of right-wing propaganda too, i do agree that it was better nonetheless but it was there, and leftists were in the very same position, there was a time a couple of decades ago where right extremists were doing a lot of sh*t without any action from the government, and they were not kidding at all, we’re not talking about a protest with an LGBT flag or a g*y reference in a movie but murders and burnt houses, stuff like that.
            Anyway, complaining never worked, whatever we say they keep doing their stuff and the gaming industry is bending the knee because it’s still working financially for them, the wallet is the only weapon we’ve got, racist comments only serve as fuel for these guys, they’re happy AF everytime they see that racism is still a thing, just look at what they did with BLM

    2. Nobody is racist. It’s just fkn hilarious how bad the characters were miscast. Nobody is hating. It’s more timid and innocent jokes then a Dave Chappelle skit. Imagine a new Blade movie gets announced with DiCaprio playing the new Blade… you don’t think anybody is going to make jokes about it? It’s only as bad as you make it in your head. Its terrible casting for sure!

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      1. Sorry but some comments are just plain racism, i hate this f*cking cast too but that’s all, no need to be a D and trash over entire communities, a lot of people from minorities are against these agendas, this SJW propaganda is a very deep issue and needs to be tackled and denounced in a smart way, no just by yelling racist comments all over the place, racism is a big issue too, if not bigger than the SJW propaganda

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        1. We would’ve have way more winning arguments if we just stuck to the facts and why race swapping is not ok. But instead they start with the racism, AIN’T NOBODY GONNA listen to us now. As a black man i come across so many races of people because of my work and i’ve dealt with some racists schitt but i’ve never retaliated with anything racists because my brain isn’t built that way. I had went up to canada for work a while back and they are on some next level schittup there, this dude called me the N-word as a term of “endearment” i said, have you ever heard me talk like that? So what makes you think it’s ok for you to talk to me like that? Dude responded with, “If it makes you feel better you can call me a racial slur, I’m half native & white”. I wanted to choke this dude out, cause he literally heard nothing i said. I said to him, “Homeboy, i wouldn’t know where to begin i don’t know any racial slurs about your racial composition”, he said, “really, that’s odd”. I just walked away man. At that point i realize i was talking to something that was “passing for human”. He just didn’t get it.

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      2. So you think calling a black woman “Niggresss” & a brown dude a “street schitter”. I know you have brain damage but that doesn’t mean I have to listen to your rubbish dude. Go read the comments & stop trying to normalize schitty behavior.

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      3. They don’t understand that the issue is whith the cast choice, in the difference of race between the actor and the character, it doesnt matter which race.
        The problem is that they are not faithful to the games, while they claim to be. But is easier to just call somebody racist nowadays, to the point that it lost any meaningful impact, today that word is just noise…and is a shame.

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  28. WTF that cast, the only reasonable one is Claire, and only because she’s atractive (Kaya Scodelario). Well, probably the dude that plays Wesker looks fine with sunglasess.
    Wait, is for the first RE game? then why the hell Leon, Claire and Birkin are casted? faithful to the game my as*.

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  29. I knew Capcom turned socialists the moment that white guy got his hands on global productions since RE7 .. i knew it .. I KNEW IT

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  31. Who in their right mind would name their city Raccoon City? Imagine having a Dog City, Shark City. Japanese are weird.

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  32. Once Hollywood is done with this you’re gonna be wishing Constantin Film was still making these instead.

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  33. This is just such bs, this was OBVIOUSLY Zac’s time, this was his opportunity to play the role he was BORN TO PLAY , Leon.

    https://i.imgur.com/5daeHst.jpg
    https://carboncostume.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/leon-s-kennedy.jpg
    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/87/3e/46/873e46388d842f425f09011a7dc26425.png
    https://www.vhv.rs/dpng/d/530-5309916_resident-evil-4-leon-s-kennedy-render-by.png

    Just why hollywood??? Why wont you just give us nice things???

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  34. Ok, we have mystery meat Jill Sandwich and Persian (?) Leon, but what really stands out for me is Black Albino Birkin!

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