Resident Evil (2026 film by Zach Cregger) trailer

[KManX89]

The trailer for the latest RE live-action reboot is here. I’ll admit, it does look pretty REINO (Resident Evil In Name Only), but it looks good for what it is even if it could’ve been closer to its source. And I trust the director of Weapons and Barbarian to do a good job. Consider me cautiously optimistic?

 

[Otherworld]

Watched it yesterday. I am on the fence. Great director, but does he understand the source material?...

 

[WeskerLives2015]

I have seen a lot of negativity about this film going around the fan base. I'm personally a big fan of Zach Cregger ever since his WKUK days. I don't think we could have gotten a better director to handle this film. Granted, it is not going to feature any of the RE characters. The story kind of gives me Outbreak vibes and I like that. He's also snuck some cool mechanics in from the games as well. I linked a trailer breakdown from Zach himself below. He gives a lot of great insight into the trailer. I'm personally very excited for this film.

 

[Beretta]

If this was just some other random zombie movie then sure, I guess it could be ok.

Having it as a resident evil movie….absolute garbage. No fan wants to see some guy running around in a damn side quest type of storyline, we want to see the resident evil games comes to life properly on screen with the characters we know.

 

[Turo602]

I think Barbarian and Weapons are very overrated. Definitely overhyped by the internet and therefore, people want to treat Zach Cregger as some kind of royalty like his sh*t don't stink and he could do no wrong and it's made the discourse surrounding this film very aggravating already with a bunch of people who clearly don't like or respect Resident Evil defending and spouting off every worst imaginable take that are inconsistent with the way many other terrible adaptations have been treated in the past. This movie is an ass backwards approach to an adaptation, but because it's by an esteemed director and could stand on its own as a film by any other name, it's getting a pass. As a Resident Evil fan, I have no interest in watching this film whatsoever.

 

['99 Problems]

Saw the director’s comments on some ign article. He doesn't seem interested in telling the story of Raccoon City since the games have already told them. In the same breath, he emphasizes that the movie will feature the protagonist’s journey sort of mirroring that of the experience you have playing the games, resource management, subtle power creep, "survival horror".

Just really hack-y stuff. I’m not excited at all for this. And the comments I’ve seen defending the director are just plain goofy and revealing. There’s a lot of perspectives to tell the story of Raccoon City from so the whole "the games already told the story" angle is just plain ignorance since a movie would be able to dive into deeper aspects of the events better than the games themselves could.

 

[Otherworld]

Saw the director’s comments on some ign article. He doesn't seem interested in telling the story of Raccoon City since the games have already told them. In the same breath, he emphasizes that the movie will feature the protagonist’s journey sort of mirroring that of the experience you have playing the games, resource management, subtle power creep, "survival horror".

Just really hack-y stuff. I’m not excited at all for this. And the comments I’ve seen defending the director are just plain goofy and revealing. There’s a lot of perspectives to tell the story of Raccoon City from so the whole "the games already told the story" angle is just plain ignorance since a movie would be able to dive into deeper aspects of the events better than the games themselves could.

I tend to agree here.

Having the experience of this single person going through what it would be like to live through the horrors of being present during the T-virus outbreak is what I am looking for. A self-contained story that stays grounded and it driven towards survival is what I want. I mean the game told the story of what you see below but at this point I rather see that fleshed out over this ....

 

[SpaceOwlHoot]

Couldn’t tell it was RE until the end and that’s good…we don’t need another ****ty adaptation

 

[Otherworld]

 

[bSTAR_182]

I have such mixed feelings right now for this movie. I know we haven't seen a whole lot of footage for it apart from the trailers (granted I'm also not going out of my way to look into this movie either).
My understanding is that this movie's story takes place around the time of RE2/RE3? But even the monsters featured in that first teaser did not move like the zombies in those games (like WTF were the legs and arms coming out of the doorway?) and the bloated pale monster in the sewers. It's just not hitting the mark to even believe it's in the same universe.

But I also can't deny that I really like Zach Cregger's work thus far. I recently watched Barbarian for the first time a few weeks ago and all I could think was how much the "mother" character reminded me of Lisa Trevor from the games... So maybe there is a chance that this movie will be enjoyable and feel like it is part of the universe... albeit a small chance. I doubt it'll be worse than any of the other failed RE movie adaptation attempts but I said that about Welcome to Raccoon City and was very much wrong there.

 

[Jonipoon]

My understanding is that this movie's story takes place around the time of RE2/RE3? But even the monsters featured in that first teaser did not move like the zombies in those games (like WTF were the legs and arms coming out of the doorway?) and the bloated pale monster in the sewers. It's just not hitting the mark to even believe it's in the same universe.

It's allegedly taking place in modern times, but in an alternate timeline where the Raccoon City outbreak happens in the 2020's. I don't get why they had to complicate things like this.

At one hand, it might be good because this way it'll completely stand on its own. On the other hand it's risks feeling more like its own separate IP that's only loosely "inspired" by Resident Evil.

At this point I hardly care about the films anymore. We get kickass games on a regular basis, and that's already more than most fanbases get in other franchises. As much as I would love to see a truly awesome Resident Evil movie - It's really not that big of a deal.

 

[Turo602]

It's allegedly taking place in modern times, but in an alternate timeline where the Raccoon City outbreak happens in the 2020's. I don't get why they had to complicate things like this.

At one hand, it might be good because this way it'll completely stand on its own. On the other hand it's risks feeling more like its own separate IP that's only loosely "inspired" by Resident Evil.

At this point I hardly care about the films anymore. We get kickass games on a regular basis, and that's already more than most fanbases get in other franchises. As much as I would love to see a truly awesome Resident Evil movie - It's really not that big of a deal.

Basically how I feel about it. I don't feel entitled enough to a film to be too upset. I just won't watch it. Resident Evil is a hard enough series for fans to grasp that I've already accepted that no filmmaker is ever going to get it right. But the discourse around it has been really aggravating that I can't help but chime in about how truly stupid this movie is.

Like, on paper, an original story set within the world of Resident Evil could actually be really cool. It avoids the difficulty and awkwardness of having someone else write and portray these iconic characters while still giving us the world of Resident Evil, iconic imagery, monsters, and all... oh wait, but this film doesn't even do that.

A movie centered around Marvin Branagh before Leon arrives would have been a much better sell than a movie about some guy self-inserting himself into random Resident Evil gameplay scenarios. The fact that he actually wrote that we would "jizz our pants" at seeing "R.C.P.D." on a jacket in the script is enough evidence to show how out of touch the guy is.

 

[Jonipoon]

Regardless of how alienating it turns out to be, it would be quite a pleasant shocker to get a Resident Evil film that actually receives positive reviews from critics.

Of course it's still too early to say, but critics seem to love Cregger's horror flicks. And as ironic as it may sound - if critics are told beforehand that this is almost nothing like the video games, they might actually like it more.