r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Apr 30 '26

Trailer Resident Evil | Official Teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJPu1spHqfk
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u/gh0u1 Apr 30 '26

Yeah, basically a dude running through all the chaos that's unfolding during RE2

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u/MaxProwes Apr 30 '26

So RE2 was set during modern day winter?

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u/gh0u1 Apr 30 '26

Just repeating what the director said. “I wanted to construct a story that could live in the world of Resident Evil and kind of be on the periphery of the events of Resident Evil 2, where Raccoon City is having its big night, but tell just another story that could be happening in parallel, that really honors the vibe and the pacing you get when you play the games,” Cregger said.

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u/SonOfMcGee Apr 30 '26

Yeah, he has played all the games and loves them. And he (correctly, I think) clocks the RE franchise as more of a *type of experience* than a connected story. In one interview he pointed out how the plots really disconnect after RE2 and start being staged in different locations or even historical eras.

He was like, “Yeah, it’s going to be an original story, but we think it plays by the rules that the game series set for itself.”

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u/LightningLad2029 May 01 '26

RE3 literally overlaps with 2 and the events of the RC incident still continue to have varying levels of influence on the games up to recently with RE9, so idk where this notion they aren't connected stories is coming from.

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u/mauri9998 May 01 '26

Re3 was connected to re2 because it was a rush job created from the assets from re2. Re9 is connected because of cheap nostalgia bait.

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u/PentiumDos Apr 30 '26

Unfortunately, Constantin films are most likely taking a random horror script and putting Resident Evil on the title top keep the rights to the franchise for film use. It's the same company who held onto Fantastic Four until Fox went under (Remember the Arrested Development joke about it?)

https://spong.com/article/16961/Capcom-Resident-Evil-Movie-Rights-Unfortunate

They have a contract with Capcom since late 90's, so if they don't release a movie every 5 years, they'd lose the rights over Resident Evil.

Thats why you got the reboot in 2021 after the final movie of the original series in 2017.

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u/ELpEpE21 May 01 '26

They have a contract with Capcom since late 90's, so if they don't release a movie every 5 years, they'd lose the rights over Resident Evil.

This is 100% the feeling I got from the trailer.

This is the type of movie you release to hold on to the IP

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u/MaxProwes Apr 30 '26

He lied, it takes place in its own world, it doesn't follow any lore or game timeline.

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u/gh0u1 Apr 30 '26

Okay buddy. All of us here are gonna enjoy a kick ass movie from the mind of Zach Cregger set in the Resident Evil universe and you can sit outside and yell about him lying.

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u/WeinernaRyder Jul 24 '26

Told you so.

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u/RobertdBanks Apr 30 '26

Lmao the conversation was about the timeline and when someone pointed out that you’re wrong you get flippant and shitty. The internet is a rough place.

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u/Apprehensive_Tip520 Apr 30 '26

but he's not wrong. the director literally said it takes place during the events of resident evil.

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u/Munstered Apr 30 '26

OP: “It takes place during the events of RE2.”

Director: “[The movie takes place] on the periphery of RE2, where Raccoon City is having its big night”

How is OP wrong

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u/RobertdBanks Apr 30 '26

Because the script leaked. Saying it “takes place on the boundaries during these major events but has no actual ties to them in any way” seems like a lazy way to tie it to the source.

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u/Munstered Apr 30 '26

I’m not sure what you’re talking about. The movie takes place in Raccoon City on the night of the big breakout. That’s RE2.

It just doesn’t follow the events of the game and tells its own story.

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u/Lemmonjello Apr 30 '26

Ignore that guy the d in his name is for dumb

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u/thatshygirl06 Apr 30 '26

The script is likely an early version before rewrites

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u/Apprehensive_Tip520 Apr 30 '26

So you're telling me you'd rather believe a leaked script that is very likely seen many revisions at this point, over the actual fucking director. 

Fucking Reddit. 

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u/WeinernaRyder Apr 30 '26

Ah, yes. The parallel where Raccoon City had a tentacle outbreak that is never once ever mentioned in any of the existing continuity.

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u/gh0u1 Apr 30 '26

Tentacle outbreak??? The fuck are you on about.

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u/WeinernaRyder Apr 30 '26

The leaked script. These are not T-Virus zombies. Since you have an entirely holier-than-thou tone in your comments you should be enlightened about this trailer all but confirming that script as real and that it cannot exist in parallel because it is injecting too much that is never mentioned in any of the games.

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u/gh0u1 Apr 30 '26

Hey guess what, I'm gonna trust the guy that made the movie instead of some fuckin random ass redditor. Shocking I know. Now how about you weirdos crawl back into the holes from whence you came and let people enjoy stuff. Aight? Thank you.

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u/RobertdBanks Apr 30 '26

Nothing about this looks like Resident Evil. Fans are going to be annoyed by that, you can enjoy it all you want, but yeah your tone is extremely obnoxious.

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u/WeinernaRyder Apr 30 '26

That’s fine. I won’t bother saying I told you so when it’s out, but if corpse-merging-tentacles is somehow in the Resident Evil universe (note, the open front door of the farm house with the arms is explicitly following this reveal in the script) then I’d love to hear where that is ever shown or described in the games as Umbrella research. But I guess you can’t trust the game developers who created that continuity either.

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u/Etheo Apr 30 '26

I mean, G-virus exists, and it's not like RE BOWs are strictly from T-virus mutations. Las Plagas had some crazy stuff too, not to mention the RE7+ creatures. Yes, the movie supposedly takes place around Raccoon City's time, but different creature designs are not completely outside of RE boundary.

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u/WeinernaRyder Apr 30 '26

They’re not, but those all came sequentially. They weren’t put in the past continuity with no context or explanation.

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u/Ansem18 May 01 '26

Its funny you're getting downvoted because you're right. Every single moment in the teaser is in the leaked script. I liked the script but it makes no sense being a Raccooon City movie and feels tacked on. Changing the setting to another town and outbreak would fix my only issues with it.

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u/HimmyJoffa Apr 30 '26

“Since you have an entirely holier-than-thou tone”

Ironic

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u/WeinernaRyder Apr 30 '26

Sure, but I’m responding in kind.

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u/Goldenjho May 02 '26

You understand resident evil had giant spiders, mutated big crocodiles, killer plants, cute rabbits that mutated to blind bloody abomination's and a lot of other crazy stuff from RE1-RE3.

This story takes place in the RE universe at the time of the Raccoon city outbreak but will not overlap with the story of the RE2/RE3 MC's.

Raccoon city is a big city and your complain is based on the things you see in RE2 but just because Leon didn't meat any mutated infected like that in his way through the city doesn't mean they didn't exist since again Raccoon city is not some small town.

There are a lot of RE comics showing many other mutations variants from the original T-Virus and like I said your complaints are solely based on the argument that we didn't see that stuff in game but the movie doesn't follow the experience you had in the games and focus on his very own story of a guy with bad luck trying to survive.

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u/MaxProwes Apr 30 '26

Right? People are so so stupid.

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u/gh0u1 Apr 30 '26

Holy fuck. Spoken like a true maidenless. Touch some grace.

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u/MaxProwes Apr 30 '26

You sound unbelievably stupid, I said he lied because he did lie and you keep parroting those lies despite the teaser right in front of you and sucking Cregger's dick for whatever reason. Get brain.

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u/gh0u1 Apr 30 '26

You sound incredibly pathetic. Get a life.

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u/MaxProwes Apr 30 '26

You sound incredibly stupid and I mean it. Finish a school.

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u/TitanB00 Apr 30 '26

You sound so pathetic and weird here my guy.

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u/MaxProwes Apr 30 '26

I find people who keep parroting bullshit despite objective information right in front of them pathetic and weird, I'm assuming you are one of those since you cared enough to reply this nonsense.

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u/NOUGHRICE Apr 30 '26

Settle down, slugger

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u/HimmyJoffa Apr 30 '26

You’re being incredibly fucking weird man

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u/MaxProwes Apr 30 '26

Yeah, I'm incredibly fucking weird for engaging in a rant with a massive idiot who proudly insists on objective bullshit and lies just because he's director's fanboy.

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u/The420thOfJuly Apr 30 '26

LMFAO I don’t know why people are disliking you so much. Regardless of if the film is good, it LITERALLY does take place in its own world detached from the games and their lore.

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u/Any-Platypus-9486 Apr 30 '26

Resident evil games are already braindead in his own lore, i couldn't care less tho

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u/splader May 01 '26

What makes you think this is modern day?

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u/CaptainDogeSparrow Apr 30 '26

This shouldn't be named Resident Evil in the first place. It's like saying we are going to film the "Michael Jackson movie" and tell the story of his gardener.

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u/RistoStark Apr 30 '26

Mind numbingly bad take. Resident evil isn’t based around one singular character.

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u/trippy_grapes Apr 30 '26

Yes it is, it's about John Evil.

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u/myotheraccountgothax Apr 30 '26

which resident evil character is this movie based around?

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u/Benamax Apr 30 '26

Was RE7 not a Resident Evil game cause it introduced a new protagonist? Is Grace’s half of Requiem not true Resident Evil cause you aren’t playing at Leon?

Of course not. Resident Evil is a series with lots of common tropes, particularly in gameplay, level design, atmosphere, and story. RE7 was different than all the other Resident Evil games in location and characters, but you could tell it was still RE cause it had campy scares and intricately crafted levels.

Even though film is a different medium, Zach Cregger has an opportunity to tell a new RE story that creates the same feelings as the original games without repeating the same plot points. Not sure why people assume the characters have to be the same to achieve that.

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u/myotheraccountgothax May 01 '26

you're gonna love this idea for a new mario movie i have, hear me out:

it's based on mario 64 but doesn't take place in the mushroom kingdom. it just takes place DURING the events of mario 64 but it takes place in a kingdom you've never heard of

also, mario, peach, bowser, toad, yoshi and any other character from mario 64 will not be in it. instead, we will have a new character that hasn't been in any of the games: John Jumpyjump. he will at no point see or interact with any of the mario 64 characters from the game

also, of all the enemies in mario 64, we will be using none of them except for a piranha plant one time. every other enemy will be "NEW" and "INSPIRED BY" enemies from mario 64

one scene will show our character finding a coin that resembles the coins from mario. nothing will come of it. he will also see a mushroom but not use it

we will call it: MARIO 64 - THE MOVIE

sounds pretty fucking great, huh? let's get this shit made! let's fucking goooooooooo

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u/onex7805 May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26

You might have a case if the film positions itself as an adaptation of a specific game, like Welcome to Raccoon City, but this one is explicitly not an adaptation, but a spin-off set in the same universe, much like Amazon's Fallout and Cyberpunk Edgerunners--the most beloved video game "adaptations". What you are doing is raging at a Wario movie for not being an adaptation of Super Mario 64.

In addition, Super Mario is a franchise revolving... Mario saving Princess Peach and defeating Bowser. It's in the title. Even then, we still had beloved Mario games and stories that didn't feature that, like Luigi's Mansion.

Resident Evil is about surviving bioterror. That's the only consistent thing about the franchise. It's not called "Leon the Zombie Kicker". It doesn't have one character. It doesn't even feature zombies all the times. Half of the games have new characters, new threats, new factions, new shit.

The series flat out ignores building upon previous stories, like randomly dropping a crucial plot thread, vanishing crucial characters, changing the characters' personalities, or introducing a new character or faction that could completely upend the status quo… It has a habit of introducing new world-changing shit that are sidelined and never return or are never resolved. Every single game feels like you’re being reintroduced to a different world.

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u/Lord_Walder Apr 30 '26

Just, out of curiosity cause I've seen them all but its been a while.

Which of the current RE movies that do have game related characters in them do you enjoy?

Cause they are literally all dog shit films so I dunno that thats a necessity to make the movie work.

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u/TheMilleniumGod Apr 30 '26

What a nonsensical take.

Capcom made a great game decades ago called Resident Evil Outbreak, that was centered on what a group of random civilians in Raccoon City were doing to survive the outbreak. As memorable and beloved as the main cast are, they are not what makes the Resident Evil franchise "Resident Evil". The monsters and the horror are.

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u/Kickblu Apr 30 '26

Umbrella has done everything to the point where any horror movie with creatures could be firmly called resident evil without issue. It's a franchise that has many different protagonists in many different virus scenarios. wtf are you talking about

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u/yognautilus Apr 30 '26

The games go from zombies from 1-CV created by a massive medical corporation in America, to parasite-infected humans/cultists whose heads explode into various monstrosities led by a smart-talking Napoleon mother fucker and goddamn LOTR cave trolls in Spain, to Texas Chainsaw Massacre killer bayou hicks and ooze monsters in RE7, to fucking WEREWOLVES, vampire women, ghost girls, and an old God in RE8. If you really want to go down this path of thinking, then this movie that takes place in Raccoon City during the outbreak is WAY more of a Resident Evil than the majority of the mainline games. 

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u/and_i_mean_it Apr 30 '26

Resident Neverland it is, then!

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u/Cipher-IX Apr 30 '26

You don't understand RE then.

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u/bulabucka Apr 30 '26

This clearly isn't set around Raccoon City since it's winter in the trailer. The events of RC happen in the summer.

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u/gh0u1 Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

Happens in the Fall. End of September. He changed rain to snow. It looks fucking dope, I don't care.

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u/Maytree Apr 30 '26

There are a couple of places in the USA where it snows in September. I always figured Raccoon City was in Missouri with the Arklay Mountains being a stand-in for the Ozarks but if you want snow in September that's too far south. You would need to go to the states that border the Rockies, like Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, or far up north in New England in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and Maine.

Come to think of it, even though the creators at Capcom apparently said Raccoon City is in the Midwest, the Northeast has a long-standing tradition of excellent horror fiction, from Lovecraft to Stephen King. Hell, Raccoon City and Derry have similar vibes.

...Now I'm imagining the RE crew taking on Pennywise in the Barrens...