After 27 years, the voice of the recognisable, sunglasses-wearing antagonist from the first Resident Evil video game, Pablo Kuntz, is finally making a comeback. In a new Resident Evil documentary, Kuntz, who created the character that later appeared in Code Veronica, Resident Evil 4 Remake, and Dead by Daylight, will serve as the narrator and trace the development and eventual demise of a tie-in RE movie that was first envisioned by veteran zombie master George A. Romero. The return of the original Wesker is giving fans of Resident Evil and Capcom another wave of nostalgia after we already saw the original Chris Redfield make a comeback in horror titles.
It’s hard to pick a favorite line. Maybe “wow, what a mansion!” Or perhaps “I’m sorry for my lack of manners, but I’m not used to escorting men.” Either way, the original Resident Evil Wesker remains a highlight of the entire survival game series, oozing smarm, sleaze, and cheap menace as you stumble across him throughout the Spencer estate.
And now he’s back. George A. Romero’s Resident Evil is an upcoming documentary film about how the famed Night, Dawn, and Day of the Dead director planned to create a tie-in movie for Capcom’s landmark horror series, and Pablo Kuntz, who voiced Wesker long before D.C. Douglas or DBD’s Connor Fogarty, is on board as the narrator.
Kuntz recorded the lines for Wesker when he was 24 years old and traveling in Japan. In the live-action cutscenes, the treacherous STARS leader was played by Eric Pirius, with Kuntz’s dialogue dubbed over the top.
As for the documentary itself, though it doesn’t currently have a release date, it will feature archive and previously unseen footage, detailing George A. Romero’s script for a Resident Evil film which was ultimately rejected by Capcom in 1998.
And Wesker isn’t the only member of the original Resident Evil cast returning to the world of gaming. Charlie Kraslavsky, the face of the first ever Chris Redfield, will appear in the upcoming Daymare 1994, itself an homage to classic RE.
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