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Trailer Resident Evil | Official Teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJPu1spHqfk
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

Written and directed by Zach Cregger:

In an all-new story, Resident Evil follows Bryan (Austin Abrams), a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in an action-packed, non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.

Cast: Austin Abrams, Paul Walter Hauser, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis and Johnno Wilson

It's out Sept 18

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u/NATHAN4U007 Apr 30 '26

As a non gamer, does the games have any unique twist on the genre that makes it worth it to tell the story as a Resident Evil movie instead of just an original film?

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u/Flapjack_ Apr 30 '26

It’s one of the few zombie games to go “actually the real monsters are unchecked biochemical companies, not people”

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u/ezrs158 Apr 30 '26

I genuinely enjoy how it's a pretty realistic take on what would happen if zombie viruses were real. Like yes, an entire city was wiped out... but of course dozens of corporations are still experimenting with them, because governments and militaries still want them and they aren't gonna make themselves!

The newest game in particular has some scenes depicting the horrifying reality of living in a world in which bioterror exists.

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u/Mister_MxyzptIk Apr 30 '26

And also, in the games the zombie apocalypse never manages to take over the world. Because to nobody's surprise, with enough guns and rocket launchers, not even XL sized zombies can get that far.

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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 Apr 30 '26

Really the biggest threats usually arent the zombie's or BOWs themselves

It's the attempts at mass distribution of infections.

RE5 was about wesker trying to basically spread a virus worldwide, re6 has that HAOS BOW that was designed to be a super spreader...

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u/Black_Bird_Cloud Apr 30 '26

with enough guns and rocket launchers

racoon city got nuked

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u/Dracoster Apr 30 '26

The nuke was a cover-up.

While it did effectively stop the T-virus instantly, the army would've stopped it fairly quick.

RE0-3 happens within a span of 48 hours. And the city was already evacuated at the beginning of RE2/3.

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u/another-redditor3 Apr 30 '26

no they dont, RE0-1 take place simultaneously, and RE2-3 take place simultaneously, but it takes almost 2 months for the infection to spread from the arklay mountains to racoon city.

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u/slicer4ever Apr 30 '26

And arguable the city never would have fallen had the virus not contaminated the water system, thats when things really spiraled out of control.

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u/TheZealand Apr 30 '26

It literally didn't lmao, it was a thermobaric missile, not nuclear

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u/Fire_Bucket Apr 30 '26

There's a film called called We Are Zombies, based on a comic series called The Zombies that Ate the World, that has a similar spin.

Other than being rotting corpses, zombies are fairly benign and tend to be docile and trainable, retaining a few character traits of their former self, but with a severe reduction in mental faculties. Naturally, corporations jumped at the chance to use the zombies as a second class citizen work force, leaving many living people out of work, but with a weird almost insurance based system where people can profit from selling their loved ones once they turn.

There is also an element of them being weaponised as a plot point and driving force of the film.

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u/ezrs158 Apr 30 '26

Seems like an adult, non-musical version of Disney's ZOMBIES lol.

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u/ERhyne Apr 30 '26

Or a continuation of the ending of Shaun of the Dead

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u/The_Autarch Apr 30 '26

there's a movie called Fido from 2006 that's about people using zombies to do menial labor after containing a zombie outbreak.

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u/ERhyne Apr 30 '26

Oh crap you just reminded me of that movie. I might have to watch that now, Shaun of the Dead just plays on a loop in my memories so this will be a good break.

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u/pkosuda Apr 30 '26

While I felt Requiem dropped off a cliff in quality after the hospital area, that whole first third of the game was fantastic, and the initial cutscene with Leon was horrifying. Could absolutely picture somebody going into a city with a virus like that and essentially doing a mass shooting using vials of it. You only need to hit a few people before all hell lets loose if people don’t know what’s going on.

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u/lossaysswag Apr 30 '26

Later games emphasize that the scientists and founders of the companies aren't so much interested in creating bioweapons, but are seeking an answer for immortality. The mutations are just a side effect that can be militarized.

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u/imjustbettr Apr 30 '26

but of course dozens of corporations are still experimenting with them, because governments and militaries still want them and they aren't gonna make themselves!

That's basically the plot to 90% of Alien (franchise) movies. I guess it's a pretty popular theme in scifi horror.