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Capcom Continuing to Tease ‘Resident Evil 2’ Remake?
UPDATE: Look what just showed up: residentevil2.com. Could be a joke, could be legit.
Okay, it’s official: Capcom is messing with us.
With the 20th anniversary of Resident Evil 2 right around the corner (January 21st), and Capcom dropping hints of something happening, we now have Capcom’s official Development Team 1 Twitter account playing around.
Over on the account, the folks behind it have been messing around with the mannequin finger USB key from the Collector’s Edition of Resident Evil 7 by taking pictures in and around Japan with the finger lying somewhere in the picture (because that’s what you do with stuff like this). Anyways, one such picture caught the attention of some fans, who posited that the finger wasn’t the main focus.
Good morning, everyone! (from the U.S.) Hope you all have a good day!:) pic.twitter.com/g8OQ94ju2D
— カプコン第一開発部公式 / Capcom R&D Dev1 Official (@dev1_official) January 18, 2018
In case you’re wondering, that indeed looks like the corner of a typewriter, which was the series mainstay for saving your progress until RE 5 came around. Now again, take this all with a huge grain of salt. The team could simply be screwing with us, and decided to be artsy with something on a desk in hopes of playing with fans. On the other hand, if you put your conspiracy glasses on, why would they hide the rest of the typewriter instead of showing it in its entirety? Or better yet, why would they even include the typewriter in the first place?
Never did I think I couldn’t wait for Monday to roll around.
Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor best known for his role in 1993’s Jurassic Park, has passed away this week at 78 years old. In a statement shared on Neill’s Instagram page this morning, the actor’s family said that his passing was “sudden and unexpected.”
Neill had been diagnosed with a rare blood cancer in 2022, but stated the following year that he was in remission. The family notes that he “remained cancer free” at the time of his passing.
The family statement reads, “It is with immense sadness that the whānau of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia. Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterised his whole life. The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free.
“They would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital for their incredible care. More details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss.”
In addition to his iconic role as Dr. Alan Grant in the original Jurassic Park and the sequels Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World: Dominion, Sam Neill left an indelible mark on the horror genre with memorable roles in Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession, The Omen: The Final Conflict, John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness, and sci-fi horror favorite Event Horizon.
Sam Neill’s vast resume in film and television began in the early 1970s and also includes the films Sleeping Dogs, Enigma, The Good Wife, A Cry in the Dark, Dead Calm, The Hunt for Red October, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Hostage, The Jungle Book, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, The Horse Whisperer, Bicentennial Man, Daybreakers, Escape Plan, and Thor: Ragnarok.
Sam Neill is survived by his four children and eight grandchildren.
Steven Spielberg said in a statement to Variety, “I owe a debt of gratitude to Roger Donaldson, Gilliam Armstrong, Graham Baker and Phillip Noyce for casting Sam Neill in the roles in which he was so brilliant that brought him to my attention and led to his playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. Sam was exceptionally collaborative. It was a stretch for him to play a character who acted as though children were messy and smelly because this was the opposite of the loving father he was to his children. I adored making all the Jurassic movies with him.”
Spielberg adds, “Along with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, we will always have our Jurassic family and Sam will never be forgotten by us or his many millions of fans around the world.”
Sam Neill in ‘Event Horizon’
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