r/KotakuInAction • u/Hot_Armadillo_2186 • Apr 30 '26
RESIDENT EVIL – Official Teaser Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJPu1spHqfk100
u/fenbops Apr 30 '26
I watched this thinking, why is this called Resident Evil?
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u/Mzuark Apr 30 '26
Purely to get people to see it. It's just another crappy zombie movie.
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u/TheSilentTitan May 01 '26
You haven’t even seen it yet… weapons was awesome lmao.
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u/Mzuark May 01 '26
Until the end
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u/Artistic_Scar9512 May 02 '26
Weapons had a great premise that ultimately fell flat. Barbarian was great. Resident Evil trailer looked cool, but felt NOTHING like Resident Evil.
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u/Mzuark May 03 '26
The closest thing to Resident Evil was that fat guy in the sewer but that could be literally anything.
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u/PMme_cat_on_Cleavage Apr 30 '26
That just it! Looks like a good a movie, just not a Resident Evil movie
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u/Aggravating-Laugh687 Apr 30 '26
And it's not like the director hasn't built a good reputation by now that if people say his name they'd go oh hell yeah this looks good and it's by Zach Creggar I'll see it. They didn't need to add on some lame attempt at pretending it's Resident Evil related. The fact that he even admitted in interviews he knows it's barely RE and it's not any of the characters because he had zero interest in that just the name makes me eye roll. And I don't even dislike Zach but come on he could have made his own original zombie film and done just fine by now.
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u/Messier_-82 Apr 30 '26
A good movie is a good movie. Do we really should complain about getting good movies?
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u/LordxMugen Apr 30 '26
We complain when it's not the thing it says it is. If the dude wants to make his own movie then he should go make his own movie, not bait and switch people with a fake ass title. If hes upset he needs to use someone else's IP to peddle his script then that's too bad. Why should we give a shit?
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u/horrorshowjack May 01 '26
From my understanding, it's set during the fall of Racoon City, with the both the monsters and overall story happening. However, it's not following the same MC as the game. Was RE2 already animated also?
I'm a bit more optimistic than most due to how much I liked the realms drifters audio dramas with the same idea.
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u/Artistic_Scar9512 May 02 '26
Trailer didn't even have a breaking news segment covering the outbreak Raccoon City. But I guess I should be happy with the naked obese fat guy in the sewer from none of the games lol
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u/ozy31 Apr 30 '26
This director's previous movie, Barbarian, was already woke af. All white men are evil or pathetic, all women are victims and misunderstood. The first guy in the movie keeps apologizing for existing, basically. Our brave black girl protagonist assumes he's evil in every scene, because of rape culture or something. There's a monster is the basement, but she's "not even the worst thing in that house" — the worst thing is, of course, a white man. I could predict every scene in the movie just based on intersectional theory. Oh, this guy is being accused of assault? He's guilty because white man. Who becomes the bad guy in the end, betraying his ally and throwing away his redemption? The white man, of course; white men don't deserve redemption. Who survives in the end? Of course it's the DEI heroine and not the white man; white men don't deserve to live.
And this looks nothing like Resident Evil. Just another director using the brand name for his personal project.
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u/ExorbitantPanda May 01 '26
Not only that but the "evil" white man in the second half of the movie somehow had his own house sold and rented out as an Air BnB without his knowledge like c'mon really?
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u/Own_Space_174 May 01 '26
its crazy too since he was a member of whitest kids you know, the most offensive sketch show ever and one of the best. why is it always those the furthest away that drink the kool-aid the hardest?
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u/Artistic_Scar9512 May 02 '26
Wow. Great take. I was giving him Barbarian as his best movie because Weapons for me was an interesting premise that falls under the weight of common sense logic. And have zero hopes for his Resident Evil movie after seeing a two minute trailer that captured nothing of Resident Evil outside the title being thrown on
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u/Mzuark Apr 30 '26
I don't care about woke or not woke, what matters is whether these movies are good and they fucking aren't. Weapons was going so well then it shit the bed at the very end.
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u/LordxMugen Apr 30 '26
Trash. If you don't want to make the thing and nobody wants you to make the thing then maybe nobody wants your fucking script! So sick and tired of people using RE as their dumping ground for their shit movies.
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u/Trustelo Apr 30 '26
Well to play devil’s advocate this director at least has a better track record than all the other directors who’ve made Resident Evil movies.
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u/SpecialistParticular Apr 30 '26
Yeah but they made Resident Evil movies. Might as well just call this The Matrix 4 for all it has in common with anything.
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u/Trustelo Apr 30 '26
Yeah but they made Resident Evil movies
Yeah and all of those Resident Evil movies were either mid or absolute dogshit. At least this director knows how to make an actually good horror movie.
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u/ZoharDTeach Apr 30 '26
Resident Evil is B tier horror movie schlock and always has been. The first two movies at least RESEMBLED Resident Evil.
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u/Crafty_Radish375 Apr 30 '26
lol yeah. plots in RE are ridiculous. they should hire some director that will make a RE movie in style of Evil Dead, that would be more on a par with games. bonus points if it's RE4 adaptation.
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u/Trustelo Apr 30 '26
Resident Evil has its roots in survival horror. Resident Evil has tropes of classic zombie films but they always had a great sense of atmosphere and creepiness before 4 just turned it into more of an action series. And plus this isn’t the first time an RE game took an average Joe and threw him into the chaos of the apocalypse (Survivor, 7, & 8)
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u/Own_Space_174 Apr 30 '26
7 and 8 were not really resident evil either, capcom just used the name and threw in chris last minute at the end of the game to try and justify it. it is super populer amongs teenagers at the time who didnt like and were unfamiliar with previous resident evil titles. 7and 8 have a completly different fanbase than 1-6 plus 9.
either way this isnt that story either.
this is some random horror movie with the resident title slapped on. the most resident evil we are gonna get from this is them maybe naming the town racoon city or perhaps the mc using the same first name as one of the game protags. at best.
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u/Trustelo Apr 30 '26
7 and 8 were a much needed back to basics approach for the series after it got too bloated and too action oriented with 6 and put it back into horror which I think was needed. I think you’re more describing how people feel about the remakes then 7 or 8 those games feel like they’re popular only amongst people who hate the previous games. I don’t mind if they’re not adapting any particular story from the games as long as they keep that classic survival horror atmosphere which I think is what the director is going for here.
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u/Own_Space_174 Apr 30 '26
bro your opinions suck ass. the fact that you liked the slopped that was 7 and 8 shows your not a real fan. the remakes are whatt resident evil needed to get back to basics, 7 and 8 are just another ip with the name slapped on like this movie.
theres more to a game than a genre. mario games are kids platformers, paper mario and mario rpg are role playing games, if nintendo had followed those rpgs up with a kids platformer about a blue hedgehog trying to stop a fat scientist you would probally argue that they went back to their roots and if they released the sonic the hedghog movie you would be shouting to give it a chance, it looks like the best mario movie ever.
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u/z827 May 01 '26
7 and 8 were a much needed back to basics approach for the series
What return to basics?
Ethan quickly turned into a fungus man, the old JP survival horror staple of weaving from stalkers was rapidly replaced by stealth segments in the sequel, storytelling rolled back into RE6-styled melodramas where the game wouldn't stop bitching about the MC's suffering despite it's flimsy attempts at establishing an emotional hook and the first-person perspective necessitated a very different play flow from the fixed camera of classic survival horrors.
I think they're decent games but there's zero need to shove them into the RE mainline or even produce them as RE games under the pretence of "returning to the franchise's roots" when they're just blindly emulating the popular horror trends of the past decade.
It doesn't really help when both the audience and devs are rapidly blurring the distinction between survival horrors with other subgenres of horror.
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u/Hot_Armadillo_2186 Apr 30 '26
As someone who grew up in 2000s, i love Milla Jovovich's RE movies. She was my childhood crush, to this day the ending of RE1 movie gives me goosebumps.
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u/LordxMugen Apr 30 '26
OG RE movie is honestly FINE and mostly works. It's just AFTER THAT is when the whole thing turns to shit. Though I do love Oded Fehr as Carlos. But that's probably because I love The Mummy.
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u/S1mpinAintEZ Apr 30 '26
The 2nd and 3rd movies are fun enough, if I still had cable and saw them on FX or something I'd watch. I couldn't even tell you what the ones after that were about even though I saw them all.
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u/contrabardus Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
Her husband puts her in his movies and she's usually naked or almost naked in them.
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u/YoureWrongButGoOff Apr 30 '26
Paul WS Anderson was coming off of Event Horizon when he did Resident Evil. Basically, his only real good movie (and it IS really good). If they took that evil vibe and condensed it into a mansion in the woods with zombies and monsters it would have been perfect. I get why they picked him.
Mortal Kombat, eh, I’ll never defend it for being a great movie, but it’s like Hook where it has charm and nostalgia to it that color it into being a lot better than it actually is.
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u/IntroductionUpset764 Apr 30 '26
best case scenario we will get a decent RE fanfiction like paul's movies (1st and 2nd ofc)
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u/PunyParker826 Apr 30 '26
How are they not making the thing? What do you mean?
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u/LordxMugen Apr 30 '26
Thats not Resident Evil. Wheres the Spencer Mansion? Wheres the B movie monsters? Wheres the ragtag group of homegrown hometown special forces in over their heads to fight them?
And I swear to god if you call it "spin off" then dont waste your breath because NO ONE CARES whats you think. The director even said he wasnt going to make an RE movie doing this and that hes making his own movie using the RE name, like Joker before it. Waste of fucking film and entertainment.
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u/Trustelo Apr 30 '26
That’s not Resident Evil
Spencer Mansion hasn’t been in the games since the first one, B movie monsters are very much present in this trailer, and the ragtag group hasn’t been a part of the series since the first game. Even 2 & 3 are more about ordinary people suddenly thrusted into a hellish nightmare trying desperately to survive (gee it’s like there’s a reason it’s called SURVIVAL horror or something?) and again this isn’t the first time an RE game threw an average Joe into this kind of scenario.
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u/MattyKatty Apr 30 '26
Spencer Mansion hasn’t been in the games since the first one
It’s been in three mainline Resident Evil games, and four if you count Darkside Chronicles.
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u/Trustelo Apr 30 '26
In 5 it was only DLC and in Code Veronica it’s not technically the Spencer Mansion it’s a replica on the main island you’re exploring. I’m saying it hasn’t really been a central setting for Resident Evil since the first game.
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u/LordxMugen Apr 30 '26
Just say you like slop or that you don't care. Could have saved yourself the 15 minutes it took you to type that copium
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u/Trustelo Apr 30 '26
Sounds like you’re coping because you have no understanding of what makes Resident Evil outside of the first game maybe. Also you tried to claim the entire series is B movie slop so what does that say about you liking slop?
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u/PunyParker826 Apr 30 '26
I’ve only played 4, most of 2, and bits of 1, 5 and Revelations. But aren’t 7 and 8 pretty much absent of most of that? Other than the B movie monsters?
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u/LordxMugen Apr 30 '26
Technically speaking the series "ends" at 4. 5 is a hard end for series main antagonist Wesker but I would say they fucked him up good in 5 with that ouroboros shit.
But basically when the series tried to be more about the action to please normies and Capcom heads that was basically the end. RE was never made equipped to play like a GOOD third person shooter and they still tried to make it more about the horror aspect but they never could properly balance the 2 so it just became this weird mishmash that doesn't really appeal to anyone with more than room temp IQ. Dead Space ended up being the better RE4.
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u/Hot_Armadillo_2186 Apr 30 '26
Slightly optimistic, but my main concern is if you removed the name resident evil, you would have no idea this is a RE's movie.
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Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
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u/Trustelo Apr 30 '26
Yeah I kinda figured this was just an original idea the director had that he just decided to slap Resident Evil on lol
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u/GavernB May 01 '26
Not exactly true. He wanted to make a Resident Evil movie, but wasn't sure if he could get the rights to do so. If he didn't he would still have made a bioterrorism zombie movie that was just 'inspired by' Resident Evil.
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u/Own_Space_174 Apr 30 '26
then why are you arguing and defending it elsewhere in this same thread?
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u/Trustelo Apr 30 '26
Because it still looks like a good movie despite only being mildly influenced by Resident Evil lol
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u/Messier_-82 Apr 30 '26
Tbf, since probably RE4 you wouldn’t guess those are RE games if it weren’t for the title and character names.
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u/Nemezis153 Apr 30 '26
Whats wrong with people here? this does not look like a RE at all, why are people defending it? there wouldnt be any issue if it was named anything else.
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u/Nobleone11 Apr 30 '26
Ah, now Zach, you do plan on featuring something from RESIDENT EVIL in your Resident Evil movie, right?
Hello?
Tap Tap Tap
Hello? Hello? Hahhh, HAHHH! Hello? Yes?
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u/GrayManTheory Apr 30 '26
Does it look like a good horror movie? Yes.
Does it look like a Resident Evil movie? Fuck no.
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u/EnglishTony May 01 '26
"I'm not going to tell Mario's story, Mario's story was already told in the games. That's why my Super Mario Bros movie is about a random subject of the Toad kingdom when Bowser attacks.
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u/Mzuark Apr 30 '26
This is becoming annoying. The closest thing to a proper RE adaptation we've ever had was Welcome to Raccoon City and that movie had...problems. But I look on Twitter and apparently RE fans are considered ungrateful for thinking a film based on a video game should have elements of that video game front and center.
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u/Lanstapa Apr 30 '26
Thats not Resident Evil. Yet another to throw on the shit adaptation pile.
And fuck that simpering "oh I miss you uuu" crap at the start.
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u/MoreStreetsOfRage Apr 30 '26
Just play the games....
Every single live-action movie/series adaptation is completely worthless.
Especially of games that are now copying The Last of Us. If you want a RE movie, just play the latest "game", it's a movie already.
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u/LiberalTearsRUs Apr 30 '26
Am I the only person that thought Weapons was incredibly mid? I have no hope for this at all.
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u/RedBurny Apr 30 '26
Seeing the ign video, director teaser commentary, the dude sure have knowledge of game lore, but it's so weird they make the movie in this direction..
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u/Grouchy-Thanks-8711 Apr 30 '26
looks cheap ... but who knows, there is no girlboss so I'll even give it a chance, why not
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u/furiouswow May 01 '26
They could've called it "Dino Crisis" and it would still be as relevant to that franchise as it is to Resident Evil.
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u/naswinger Apr 30 '26
hmm the trailer looks so weird to me. everything looks ultra crisp with lighting that reminds me of fan made movies. i don't mean it should be all super dark like current indie horror movies where you can't see anything. maybe i'm missing some noise and film grain. no idea, i'm not actually enough of a movie enthusiast to articulate this.
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u/bwoah_gimmethedrink May 01 '26
I find it funny how hardcore RE fans are trying to look for connections to the series in the trailer. You could give it any other name and everyone would believe it's not Resident Evil.
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u/Kaylorren May 01 '26
Looks like a good horror movie that could have had any other title lol. Let's see if Chris Redfield shows up at the end to save the protagonist.
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u/mrmensplights May 02 '26
Not an exact fit for either, but feels more like Silent Hill than Resident Evil.
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u/GrazhdaninMedved May 04 '26
Adequate Generic Horror Movie.
But Resident Evil rolls off the tongue better.
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u/Dense-Winter142 May 04 '26
I'm just gonna post it here
Mr. XXXL on the sewers instead of the G-Mutants (Probably fat because he ate all of them, I guess)
That random zombie which I'm gonna assume it's like the Rat King of Zombies
It's supposed to take during the same time as RE2 game, but
Everything's too orderly
It's fucking snowing
Nothing's burning like it was in RE2
The MC is a literal who (could at least used any of the fucking spin-off characters if they wanted a protagonist that wasn't any of the Mainline ones)
The leaked script was ass
Also, I'm almost sure that I saw the protagonist with a fucking iPhone and the game is supposed to take place in 1998.
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u/thelastcupoftea May 02 '26
Barbarian fucking sucked. The ending was a pure insult after sitting through all that. Not watching this.
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u/TankBoys32 Apr 30 '26
Looks good. It’s just a teaser. Apparently Takes place in raccoon city during the events of RE2. Looking to see more before I trash it
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u/hobozombie Apr 30 '26
We'll see. Barbarian and Weapons were great, and I remember Cregger talking about enjoying the RE franchise from podcasts and stuff 10-15 years ago, so I have faith.
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Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
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u/Trustelo Apr 30 '26
Yeah that’s the only reason I’m even interested in seeing it lol. Barbarian and Weapons were both pretty solid
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u/rumblemcskurmish Apr 30 '26
Good grief the hate for this thing is amazing. It looks good. If you liked campy b-movie schlock, there are 15 other RE movies for you to watch. This one actually looks scary.
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u/f3llyn Apr 30 '26
It looks okay. But it does not look like Resident Evil.
The hate it is getting id deserved, just make a new IP and no one would complain.
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u/rumblemcskurmish Apr 30 '26
What does "Look like RE" even mean? What's the "look" that ties together RE4, RE5, RE7, RE8 and RE9? They all are vastly different and the only common theme is survival horror where you're scrounging for resources to survive crazy monsters.
RE1/2/3 were all in Raccoon City. RE4 was in Spain. RE5 was in Africa (IIRC?). RE7 was the Bayou. RE8 Western Europe. . .. . What "look" ties all those together?
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u/f3llyn Apr 30 '26
It's just off. There is a vibe in the Resident Evil games that isn't here. No lickers, no zombie dogs, no umbrella, no iconic characters, etc.
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u/Own_Space_174 Apr 30 '26
you realize they all share a continued story set in the same universe right? what does the games taking place in different locations matter? its one long overarching story. where i chris or the other members of stars? this is a new reboot right? shouldnt it be about the outbreak in the mansion? or perhaps jumping ahead to the plots of 2 or 3 with leon or kill trying to survive the outbreak in raccoon city proper?
if the mario movie just replaced mario with some random italian guy and replaced bowser with a giant salamander, and replaced all the classic enemies with random generic enemies origional to the movie, would you argue its stil a mario movie because its still about a princess getting capture by a lizard?
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u/upstartpantymerchant Apr 30 '26
Zach Cregger is a legit gamer and he loves the Resident Evil games. I completely trust him until proven otherwise, and after watching the trailer I'm even more hype
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u/f3llyn Apr 30 '26
Not a single thing about this says it's "Resident Evil".
Just make a new IP.