RESIDENT EVIL: WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY Director Reveals How Important The Video Games Are To New Film.

Let’s be honest, the Resident Evil franchise was cool but fans wanted a Horror based movie more than action. Director Johannes Roberts is all too aware of this and in a recent chat with ComicBook.com, relayed how Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City will be more horror-centric as well as down right terrifying.

When asked how this film will differ from the past films starring Mila Jovovich, Roberts had this to say: "The thing is times have changed, I think. When the first film franchise came out, adapting a computer game was very much seen as 'people know the name, so take the IP, take the name... and then do whatever you want," Roberts explains. "Just take the name and do anything, add some value. Over the last 20 years, that's really changed. There's become this real respect for the game. I think games have just developed themselves and just become so sophisticated, as well. It was this idea that became sort of paramount in the way that we pitched [the film] and in the way we moved forward like, 'Look, let's take this seriously.'"

Johannes Roberts further elaborates on how gaming as a whole has become much more respected and distinguished since the original game came out.

"This is like a novel. If you're adapting a novel, you take the source material very, very seriously. It was the same with when we went back to the game and it was like, look, let's go back, let's tell what excited us when we were kids, when I played this as a student. Let's make a super scary horror. To be the horror guy coming on and like, let's really make something that's terrifying, dark, scary, fits the tone. It was just a really exciting thing that just hadn't been done before at all with the previous franchise. It was a lot of fun."

Hopefully this newest addition to the Resident Evil family of films will be the darker, creepy kid of the family.

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City will be in theaters on November 24th.