George Romero, the guy behind most of the great Zombie movies, originally wrote a script for the movie portrayal of Resident Evil.

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Day of the Dead

Land of the Dead

Originally, Romero was set to write the theatrical version of Resident Evil, but there were conflicts of interest with the director.

EXT JILL’S APARTMENT MORNING

…JILL, heavily ARMED, in UNIFORM, wearing a beret that has an insignia… S.T.A.R.S. She rushes down the front path and jumps into A HUMMER with THREE OTHER TROOPERS on board. The vehicle pulls instantly away…

…leaving Chris, looking through the window, puzzled, angry, and very much wounded.

I was browsing through ZombieReportingCenter dot com and came across this article which led me to the script.  I remembered hearing from a friend that Romero was supposed to write or direct Resident Evil but I never read the script or knew anyone who had.

George Romero’s version of the movie starts out completely different.   It starts with some mishaps in a lab being watched through a video screen, then cuts to Chris Redfield feeding some eagles.  After seeing something that freaks him out Chris goes back to Jill Valentines apartment and gets in bed with her.  They talk about how alone they are and then eventually Jill wakes up before Chris because she gets a call from S.T.A.R.S and has to leave.

Oh, and there was something to do with a guy and horses somewhere in that sequence..

EXT   THE FOREST   MORNING

DEEP IN THE HEART OF THE MIST... THE HUMMER bounces over
non-roads and stops fifty yards from...

...A PAIR OF IRON GATES, each wrought with the letter "A".
Beyond, the shifting fog offers momentary glimpses of...
A MANSION.  Huge.  Like Xandau.  THE TROOPERS, amazed,
climb out and approach the gates.

It looks like they're still going to the Mansion!

A deep, animal SNARL comes from the woods.  The troopers
raise their weapons as they peer into the underbrush.  The
fog keeps sunlight from penetrating.  The forest is a maze
of dark shadows. Leaves flutter.  Limbs SNAP.  Then...

DARK SHAPES can be seen moving, circling.  A half-dozen
of them.  Maybe more.  Jill whips out a transmitter and
quickly types an access code.

It didn't take long for the suspense to start building up.

After this scene it goes to some more recognizable characters like Wesker and Barry Burton.Chris gets out of bed, Helicopters land outside on the street of Raccoon City and attempt to evacuate everybody.

Chris beats up some guards, saves a sheriff and goes to his. . farm? I guess the guy with the horses was running Chris’s farm for him.  The old guy’s laying on the ground dying next to three of the horses that are also dead.

Barry looks worried. His instincts are asking... "We might
need... 'help'".  Against what? We only see this in his eyes,
he says nothing as...

...Wesker leads the team through the woods, unaware of...

...CHRIS, following behind, crouching around trees and
bushes, not a trained commando, but comfortable with the
land, a natural warrior using ancestral instincts.

Chris makes his way through the woods and follows the S.T.A.R.S team members that just landed.  This is only about page 16 of the script, but so far it seems like it would have made a pretty decent movie.

Go over to the Movie Script Place and read the rest of the script.  I might finish reading it all and review it some point in the future but for right now I’ll leave that up to you guys.

I don’t really like tv. Its not that there isn’t some good shows to watch, its just that the internet has all that shit and manages to fit my irregular lifestyle. Some of the best treasures of the tube is the Daily Show/Colbert hour, which has just returned from the writers strike. And of course, Colbert takes his satirical conservative stance against it, but Stewart seems to have a not completely liberal response (unlike Obama). He actualy sorta disapproves with both sides not geting together to solve this internet distribution problem instead of acting like a bunch of 13 year old fagots. I can only imagion the stupid blather the duo (Stewart and Colbert) got from the picketers for crossing the line.

I also witnessed the new episode of Avatar (Se: 3, Ep: 13). It was a good episode but I have one concern. Zuko had always been a sort of anti hero for me, and now with him becoming good I’m sort of worried that his character will fall apart. I hope that when the upcoming face off with the firelord happens, the writers will show the deeper and more interesting sides to all the characters. Some of the best moments was when Katara learned bloodbending or when Sokka lost his cool talking to Azula. Its moments like this that define characters and there roles in the story. But I have faith that the writers will develope zuko into an interesting character, just not as evil.

These two gems of the television overlords are the only ones I frequently watch. Oh but ye ponders, “Hay dood, hows I deshackle myself from teh tube and ascend to media greatness.” Well my silly lifeforms of the depths, the answer lies in the internet (the greater of the tubes if you will). There are plenty of uprising vidcasts and online tv shows that feature wondrous content. In fact, [Adult Swim] features many of there weekly lineup on-the-line. Every thing from the cybornetic poultry to the morbid stationary. From time to time the internet births its own children, which grow up and and make its networked father proud. This bastard child i speak of is Martin Sargent. His freakish yet wondrous shows can be found at revision 3, a website that features an assortment of sweet ass shows. The small creepy guy in the corner with one hand in a region unknown to many of his onlookers asks, “But wat of ye shows for us who feature an appalling sort of humor”. Well Nobody Likes Onions is the very thing for you sir. Hosted by the very much loved and hated Patrick Melton, Johnny B, and Chef. This one is not how ever to be viewed by normal easily offended people. Lets just say they were the second to have a joke with 9/11 in it, the first being anon.

Here are some links to awesomeness, and remember to support your internet media.

Tikibar

Gametrailers

1UP show

G E TV

Pure Pwnage

Zero Punchuation

Cockbite

—[K_r]
Robotic lungs breath in your sweet data…

Yes. That’s right.  Duke Nukem Forever.  I think it might actually be coming … someday.  The above picture is just a screenshot of the Teaser Trailer.

3D Realms yesterday posted that today they were going to post a Teaser Video they had made.

From the 3D Realms post:

“We’d like to thank the people on the team that worked so hard to create this teaser and the friends of 3DR that helped create it (Jeremy Soule and Julian Soule, Frank Bry, Jason Evigan and of course, Jon St. John).”

Now, just because these are the people who helped create it doesn’t mean they’re the ones that need to be beat if we don’t see anything else for a few more years.

Head over to 3D Realms to check out the release post or straight to shacknews to download the Trailer.  It’s about 75mb and one minute long.

There’s also a story on Shacknews about the History of Duke.

edit:  3dRealms and Shacknews are both extremely slow right now, so I might end up mirroring the video file on my server.  I’ll leave a link here if I do.
Edit: Here’s youtube to the rescue. I might still mirror the HD .mov file though, who knows

I was reading from the great Cow and decided to enter this Blog Contest by Thor Schrock.    It apparently has something to do with promoting the Secret Classroom dvds.    It’d be cool to win either the $1,000 cash prize or the 22inch monitor, but who knows.

• Installed the WP-Super-Cache plugin for Wordpress.    It’s a replacement for WP-Cache that comes with Wordpress.    It’s supposedly a lot faster and so far seems like a good alternative especially since it supports gzip.
• Changed the sitemaps.xml file around a little bit.  It no longer includes any Category or Archives type pages; Only actual posts and static pages.  This should stop google (and other search engines) from sending people to a category page instead of straight to the post they were looking for.
• I did alot of cleaning of code and such that you people won’t notice, but it’s there anyway.   Hopefully it’ll speed things up a little bit.

Top 5 Posts on www.thesh17.com according to traffic:

1.  40,000 Blowjobs from Belgium
   I’m too sure why this one is still getting a lot of hits. I think its from people searching google for “Blowjob“. Sick bastards
2. Funny Motivational Posters
   We actually get more traffic from google for the term “Funny Motivational Posters” than from stumbleupon
3. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
   Everybody just wants to break the law I guess.
4. Guitar Hero 3 Details and Song List
   Another one mostly from google search.
5. I’mah firein’ up mah ion cannon.
   You’ll have to ask Kanchi why this is so popular. CnC3 has been how for how long?

We’re also starting a few other projects.   One of those being a webbased MMORPG.  More information will be posted when it becomes available.

Not much to write this time.

Wordpress has been updated to  Version 2.3.1.

There was quite a few bugs fixed, but among them were:

• Tagging support for Windows Live Writer
  Fixes for a login bug that affected those with a Blog Address different than
  their WordPress Address
  Faster taxonomy database queries, especially tag intersection queries
  Link importer fixes

Oh and www.thesh17.com was moved to a new server recently. It really is a lot quicker now, so if you notice any problems. Post a comment here and let me know.

1-800-GOOG-411

Google’s free 411 service is finally out of google labs. I just noticed it. I usually text GOOGL (46645) for directions or phone numbers or even definitions, but now you can call and get the same thing.