I'm sure someone bought the rights way back in 2006 or 2007 to make a DMC film, and I remember facepalming back then too. The Resident Evil movies directed by Anderson were enough to scare the bejeezus out of me at the prospect of someone like him getting their hands on DMC. But, at the time a lot of game franchises were getting rights acquired to films and I hoped that like Metal Gear Solid, someone would put the rights on the shelf and just sorta... forget they left them there. ¬_¬
Then I got slightly excited when the Resident Evil Degeneration movie came out and that was pretty disappointing as well.
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