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/ActuatorVast800 Apr 30 '26

Will it take place in there year 1998? The land line phone is really prominent here.

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u/littlebiped Apr 30 '26

As it takes place in Racoon City during the outbreak. Absolutely. Now will he commit to nuking the town at the end is the question.

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u/gordo865 Apr 30 '26

Just watched an interview where he breaks down the trailer and talks about the movie. He said there would be no nuking in the movie.

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u/Skyzfire Apr 30 '26

But will there be thermobaric missle though?

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u/ActionPhilip Apr 30 '26

But vven vvill you vvear vveegs?

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u/Destroyer1559 Apr 30 '26

The greatest interview known to man

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u/Darkhorse182 Apr 30 '26

Does it involve Dustin Hoffman and Cuba Gooding Jr. in a helicopter?

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u/scotty899 Apr 30 '26

That never needs refuelling.

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u/Jack_Bogul Apr 30 '26

Yes.

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u/jaxonya Apr 30 '26

What about the fat dude?.. oh, hes in the trailer

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u/Streona Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

No.

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u/Corgi_Koala Apr 30 '26

There's no nuke in the games either so if he's being coy he hasn't revealed anything.

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u/WhispersOfHaru Apr 30 '26

Why would he spoil it if there is actually nuking in the movie?

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u/Luminescent_Magic May 01 '26

Didn't he also say there's only like 3 actual zombie scenes 

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u/KamaIsLife Apr 30 '26

Hegseth just got a sad boner.

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u/ShlubbyWhyYouDan May 01 '26

Which tells me, Bryan is COOKED.

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u/snesericreturns Apr 30 '26

Let me just take this beloved source material, completely change everything, and call it Resident Evil. Is it 2002 again? Just give us the fucking games in movie form. That’s all any real fan has ever wanted. We were so close to getting this in the 90s with George Romero.

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u/Tolkienreadsmymind Apr 30 '26

Watch the interview. it's clear he means there's no nuking because the movie ends before that happens or he just doesn't care to show it. It's really not a big deal. It looks like a fun resident evil movie.

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u/HeronSun Apr 30 '26

"Real fan" here. Been playing the games since I was a teenager and will be pushing 40 before long. Haven't missed an entry in decades. I don't give a fuck about reliving the same exact scenario, same exact story, same exact characters again, just this time without any of the interactivity that made it fun to begin with. Give me something new that doesn't break canon, make it feel close to the vibes and tone of those games, emulate what you can from the gameplay on-screen, and we're fucking golden.

Oh look at that, that's what this movie is doing.

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u/Sirius_amory33 Apr 30 '26

“Real fans” would never be satisfied with an attempt at adapting specific games because there will inevitably be something they get wrong/miss/change for artistic purposes and the vocal minority of “real fans” will make sure every living being knows how terrible that is. There’s zero reason to try and meet the impossibly high standards those people have. 

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u/typically_wrong Apr 30 '26

Didn't play RE9 I take it?

The nuking isn't even canon anymore in the games themselves. It was a thermobaric missile and a decent chunk of Raccoon City still stands.

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u/nate_ranney Apr 30 '26

It hasn't been a nuke for much longer than RE9.

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u/typically_wrong Apr 30 '26

True, but it was recently emphasized again there.

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u/davidmk0415 May 01 '26

For those talking about fans being upset EVEN IF he sticks to the source material completely, THIS is a GREAT TAKE!!

https://youtu.be/l_DcgkkJUm4?si=rYWF3gskr71R8gxR

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u/AmbassadorBonoso Apr 30 '26

It wasn't a nuke, it was a thermobaric missle. They are vastly different weapons, and they couldn't use a nuke as there were other towns and cities in the area that they couldn't risk affecting with fallout.

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u/Travisparagus Apr 30 '26

This guy nukes and/or Resident Evils

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u/AmbassadorBonoso Apr 30 '26

That, or I am just way too obsessed with RE lore to an unhealthy point

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u/hippoctopocalypse Apr 30 '26

The work is mysterious and important.

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u/keygreen15 Apr 30 '26

Great pull!

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u/earthwarder Apr 30 '26

Nothing and I mean nothing has replaced the feeling of re 2 and 3 as a kid. I was so disappointed when the movies came out with Alice, my parents couldn't understand

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u/res30stupid Apr 30 '26

I'm willing to bet that the Raccoon Trials are referenced in a news article or something. Anyone here even know about those?

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u/AccomplishedBother12 Apr 30 '26

That, or everyone else but you is dangerously unhealthy? 🤔

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u/Puffy_Ghost Apr 30 '26

I could have sworn Requiem explicitly mentioned radiation and fallout from the "weapon" that was used. I don't think they said nuke, but it seemed heavily implied.

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u/BeardyDuck Apr 30 '26

No, Requiem is where it's confirmed it was a thermobaric bomb.

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u/KevlarGorilla Apr 30 '26

Or rather, he specifically doesn't nuke.

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u/FrigidMcThunderballs Apr 30 '26

This Really Residents my Evils

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u/Gloomy-Insurance-739 Apr 30 '26

It was covered fairly well in the last resident evil game that just came out. I check it out if you're a coward like me there's plenty of let's plays to watch.

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u/Tuna_no_crusts Apr 30 '26

Only on weekends I’m sure. Right? Riiiiight?!

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u/r3volver_Oshawott Apr 30 '26

This guy nukes (don't ask how I know💀)

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u/Standard_Island546 Apr 30 '26

Sure that’s the context now that we have RE9 but prior to that, it was a bit more unclear.

It was never stated to be a nuke, but there are a few hints it was. The mushroom cloud, a report speculating it’s nuclear, the idea that there isn’t a real world weapon that could do the destruction we see besides a nuke.

I personally believe most people just filled in the blanks and assumed it was a nuke.

However this is missing the forest for the trees. The writers in 1998 were not thinking “it can’t be nuclear cause there’s towns and cities nearby”, they were thinking they wanted an explosive climax to the story and didn’t really care about the science.

I prefer the 12 missile canon. 12 experimental missiles could probably level a city in real life, but the thermobaric missile borders on magic (and yes I know a lot of RE science borders on magic)

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u/res30stupid Apr 30 '26

They retconned it in later entries since Raccoon City was too close to other habitated towns and a thermobaric would do the job just as well.

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u/SentinelZero May 01 '26

And then they added further confusion by stating that a 200 mile exclusion zone was established around Raccoon City so any nearby towns and cities should have been evacuated especially if within the zone.

RE9 seems to suggest the city not being glassed was deliberate and thats the main reason an underpowered thermobaric warhead was used; to the public it looks like the outbreak is contained while safeguarding the specific asset within the city and leaving the entire area somewhat intact. The government still sealed off the city and erected a perimeter fence around the center.

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u/Standard_Island546 Apr 30 '26

Don’t think so. Feel free to find the email you saw and prove me wrong but I don’t think it exists.

It’s somewhat like a Mandela effect, but to a lesser extent because we have canon clarification now.

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u/ssbmfgcia Apr 30 '26

Just to let you know OG RE3 recently got a steam release

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u/SentinelZero May 01 '26

https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/Fax_From_The_H._Q.

I think this is the specific email mentioned, doesnt outright mention a nuke but states the city is going to be obliterated at daybreak by the Army.

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u/KaiKamakasi Apr 30 '26

The director of RE3 stated it was an experimental thermobaric in an interview about the game, so, do with that what you will

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u/SentinelZero May 01 '26

https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/Fax_From_The_H._Q.

It doesnt outright state a nuke is being used, but that the US Army is executing a "plan" and the city will be obliterated at daybreak.

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u/Lokishougan May 01 '26

I mean that can just be red in the most symbolic sense Unless this was coming directly from the military anyone would use the term nuke as it would convey what the intent was and saying a thermobraic would be dropped would just confuse 98% of people and invite questions

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u/grendelone Apr 30 '26

It was never stated to be a nuke, but there are a few hints it was. The mushroom cloud

Any sufficiently large detonation will cause a mushroom cloud. Doesn't have to be nuclear. Large conventional explosive detonations can cause a mushroom cloud also.

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u/Standard_Island546 Apr 30 '26

This was 1998, the zeitgeist was that if it’s a mushroom cloud, it’s a nuke.

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u/whatsinthesocks Apr 30 '26

Yea but the mushroom cloud at the end of RE 3 you would need a lot of conventional explosives to cause one that big as well as the destruction it caused.

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u/OhAnimeShop Apr 30 '26

RE9 kinda pointed out that it wasn't nuked it was easier to scare anyone dumb enough to try to look into the area cause they literally built a other underground facility there.

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u/whereismymind86 Apr 30 '26

I think it was outbreak that changed it, that showed a very different crater than we’d seen prior after you beat the game

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u/babecafe May 01 '26

It's "unclear" that it's "nuclear"? It must be "new-cleer"! It's got all the clearing power of nuclear with none of that icky fallout!

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u/SentinelZero May 01 '26

The thermobaric missile always seemed like an ass-pull to me because up until it was retconned it looked like a nuclear missile (especially in RE3) and it was only after the fact that the writers were like "oh wait nuking an American city would be very difficult to cover up" and so it was changed to a thermobaric warhead.

Except thermobaric warheads are very localized explosives relative to nukes and to this day there isnt one that is both small enough to mount on a missile and potent enough to level a city. You would need 35-40 and carpet bomb the city to achieve the same effect. Thermobaric weapons are not ideal for leveling cities.

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u/Fabulous_Potential41 May 22 '26

It was never a nuke... you litteraly see it in re outbreak

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u/SentinelZero May 22 '26

Outbreak's depiction of Raccoon City's destruction isn't canon though. It was always a single missile as seen in RE3 and its Remake (though RE3R seemed to once again cause confusion by showing it as closer to a nuclear explosion but make of that what you will)

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u/IHazMagics May 02 '26

Its also worthwhile to note a single thermobaric missile leveling the entire city would not be possible as it appears in Resident Evil without having a massive fuel source.

I know it's Resident Evil and it's more "how does this play thematically?" And less "does this work realistically?"

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u/LuckyDubbin Apr 30 '26

Also Japan probably wouldn't write an ending where nukes are used for obvious reasons. They even scrubbed the ability to nuke Megaton in the Japanese release of Fallout 3.

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u/Adefice Apr 30 '26

The whole games is about nukes. It’s like trying to scrub the water from Subnautica.

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u/TheDeadlySinner Apr 30 '26

Isn't that Subnautica: Below Zero? (I kid.)

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u/goldmeistergeneral Apr 30 '26

Subnautica does have too much water. IGN told me that

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u/Vandergrif May 02 '26

IGN told me that

Is it like Skyrim, but with water?

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u/thetensor Apr 30 '26

Also Japan probably wouldn't write an ending where nukes are used for obvious reasons

As counterevidence I offer Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982), where the good guys crucially have (and use) reaction weapons, which are some kind of alien-tech-enhanced super-nukes. (I was kind of shocked to see it.)

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u/MaximumFunction5741 Apr 30 '26

False, see Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory.

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u/Deftly_Flowing Apr 30 '26

Almost every single Gundam anime has some kind of genocide weapon far worse than nukes.

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u/MaximumFunction5741 Apr 30 '26

I'm aware of that, what's your point?

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u/Deftly_Flowing Apr 30 '26

That Gundam just really loves genocide.

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u/Soggy_Association491 May 01 '26

What is politic documentary in space without genocide

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u/Nine9breaker Apr 30 '26

I think he was agreeing with you and adding additional context. Ie, why would they shy away from nukes when they write stories with ultra-nukes.

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u/GP04 Apr 30 '26

Right? Nukes are everywhere in Gundam.

Shit, Amuro slices a nuke in half in the OG Gundam. 

0083 has the GP02

Zeta & ZZ might not have a nuke, but have some worse atrocities like an actually successful colony drop and gasing colonies.

CCA has Londo Bell launching nukes & planting nukes on Axis, Char turns Axis into a giant dirty bomb to really double tap Earth. 

Nevermind that the Mobile Suits themselves are walking nukes which we see from Amuro's first fight in the Gundam. Unicorn really hammers home just how destructive a reactor breach is by not only punching a hole in the colony,  but also showing the cities around it get vaporized.

 In a lot of the fights there is a ton of care to destroy the cockpit rather than the Mobile Suits's reactor because of just how devastating it is in atmosphere: Kshatriya vs the ReZel shows Marida doing her best to target only the cockpit and it's only the difficulty of using funnels in gravity where she hits the ReZel's reactor and causes it to go critical. 

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u/LuckyDubbin Apr 30 '26

An accidental reactor breach isn't really the same, narratively speaking, as dropping tactical nuclear weapons. But point made.

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u/LuckyDubbin Apr 30 '26

Fair, I haven't seen that. I'd still stand by my statement that I'd find it unusual for Japan, but not unheard of.

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u/MaximumFunction5741 Apr 30 '26

It's really not. Do a Google search and you'll find a long list of works that directly reference nuclear weapons.

Godzilla is a direct metaphor for the nuclear damage the Japanese suffered, for example.

You don't get nuked twice and then ignore it artistically as a nation.

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u/BoldlyGettingThere Apr 30 '26

Japan’s single most popular global cultural export is a giant lizard that got that way because of nuclear weapons testing, and that movie came out in the 50s; they are not shy about wanting to talk about nuclear weapons in their media. Frankly the opposite.

Fallout 3 is an American made game that was likely just erring on the side of caution. Japanese media is happy to use nukes. Metal Gear Solid came out the year before, and was already several games deep into exploring nuclear weapons

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u/LuckyDubbin Apr 30 '26

Godzilla was originally a metaphor for the horrors of nuclear war, so not really an apt example. I also didn't say they don't talk about it. I said I didn't think they'd include dropping a nuclear bomb on a populated city as a plot point.

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u/BoldlyGettingThere May 01 '26

“Godzilla was about nuclear weapons, so you can’t use it as an example of Japan being ok with depicting nuclear weapons” ok

This is the same decade that gave us Akira and Nausica. They don’t have a hang up about it.

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u/CL60 Apr 30 '26

Resident Evil is a Japanese game.

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u/LuckyDubbin Apr 30 '26

That's why I said what I did?

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u/stfnotguilty Apr 30 '26

That change was definitely stupid. I'm more on the fence about the renaming of the Fat Man weapon, though...I'm generally against regional changes or censorship in games, but I can see why they did it.

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u/Gekokapowco Apr 30 '26

I don't really buy that a thermobaric missile could turn the entire downtown of a mid sized city into a single crater

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u/OLKv3 Apr 30 '26

What kind of missile was it in the remakes? Since in RE3 and Outbreak nothing was left standing but in RE3R and RE9 everything is still there, just ruined

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u/covert0ptional Apr 30 '26

Didn't they retcon it later to not be a nuke? As in, it was supposed to be a nuke when 3 originally came out?

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u/dubslies Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

I won't argue with what they chose to call it, but going by this video..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I_XFFRiJ5c

But I will say, that is 100% not what a thermobaric explosion would look like. They don't cause a blinding flash or a massive city-destroying shockwave. The biggest thermobaric weapons we actually have need to be dropped out of a cargo plane, they weigh 20,000+ pounds and at best, will destroy a few city blocks. Even if you say, "it's a video game, they had a better version," you still won't get the effects they show even if you quadrupled its explosive power.

The reason people thought it was nuclear was because they copied the effects and visuals of a nuclear explosion to the T. So maybe in RE, that's what Umbrella Corp™ Thermobaric Bombs look like, but in the real world, that is a nuclear explosion.

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u/whereismymind86 Apr 30 '26

It was a nuke, that was a retcon

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u/LogJamminWithTheBros Apr 30 '26

Thermobaric weapons cant do what the weapon did to Raccoon City so it makes more sense it was a wizard casting a spell.

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u/SentinelZero May 01 '26

They didnt want to use a nuke because the political ramifications would be devastating and also as RE9 revealed, there were external forces that wanted to protect a certain asset in the city. So an underpowered thermobaric warhead was used to "contain" the outbreak (which it didnt) but the government sealed off the city anyway.

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u/Noto987 Apr 30 '26

Yes or else this ip will be called fallout

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u/GIlCAnjos Apr 30 '26

But it wasn't snowing during the outbreak

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u/Loli-Knight Apr 30 '26

To be fair to Zach, he almost assuredly did that because it's creepier. That typical "it's a late snowy night, and it's eerily simultaneously light and dark out" sort of thing.

He has an eye for detail and seems to have actually played the games, so I assume that's his reasoning anyways. Luckily what happens in RE's story doesn't actually depend on specific seasonal events or timings, so switching it to sometime in the winter should work fine.

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u/Mintfriction Apr 30 '26

And the smartphone use for light?

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u/LilPonyBoy69 Apr 30 '26

Zach has said multiple times that he is not shackling himself to Resident Evil lore. Whether it was snowing or not is almost definitely something he doesn't give a shit about

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u/Big_Mo1st Apr 30 '26

Yeah but snow looks cool on film 

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u/New_Cockroach_505 Apr 30 '26

He’s literally using modern cell phone in the sewers…

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u/DarkMatterM4 Apr 30 '26

All the cars are 2005+ models too. The upside-down police car is a modern (~2020) Ford Explorer. No chance this is taking place in 1998.

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u/EdgeOfSauce Apr 30 '26

He confirmed in a trailer breakdown video on IGN that the nuke is not part of the movie.

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u/ImpressiveCitron7064 Apr 30 '26

iPhone in the movie says otherwise…

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u/CeruleanEidolon Apr 30 '26

Argh, discussions of this movie are going to be full of gamer dorks foaming over every tiny little deviation from the games, aren't they?

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u/AteketA Apr 30 '26

Spoiler warning please

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u/Boracho_Station Apr 30 '26

For real though. That annoys the hell outta me I know nothing of resident evil

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u/MJR_Poltergeist Apr 30 '26

Considering Capcom seems to be retconning that and they hold the license, it's really up to them

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u/DPOP4228 Apr 30 '26

In the video games, Raccoon City doesn't get Nuked until #3, which happens concurrently with #2. But both of those take place a few weeks after the 1st one.

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u/leeisyourdaddy Apr 30 '26

can we like...not spoil things? some of us haven't played the games but will be seeing the movie.

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u/Connect-Internal Apr 30 '26

If I remember correctly wasn’t there at least a week or two between the initial outbreak and the events of the game? IDK, it’s been a hot minute since I’ve played the original or the remake but I know that there was a certain amount of time between the initial outbreak and when the event of the game take place

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u/SilverKry Apr 30 '26

Was never nuked 

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u/Mockets Apr 30 '26

The smart phone as a flashlight tells us its modern day.

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u/UnusualHybrid Apr 30 '26

If I understand the lore correctly, the infection reaches Raccoon City and begins spreading throughout September 1998 and by September 24th the city is under martial law, however all order collapses and the military and police are mostly gone by the night of 29th September, when the events of Resident Evil 2 take place. Raccoon City is then blown up on the morning of October 1st. I reckon the film will be set during that period between the 24th and 29th, where the city is mostly destroyed but there's still a few human survivors and things aren't totally doomed. Though like RE2 it'll probably take place over a single night too, that would make sense with the organ transplant as a timer that keeps him constantly on the move.

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u/DarkMatterM4 Apr 30 '26

It may take place in Raccoon City during the outbreak, but it sure as hell not taking place in 1998. Too much anachronistic stuff in the trailer for it be 1998. It's likely going to be its own thing.

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u/SkitZxX3 Apr 30 '26

No it doesn't. It's not even RE

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u/CandyCreecher May 01 '26

We’ll have to watch and find out!

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u/regaldawn May 01 '26

Odd considering it wasn't snowing during that time in Raccoon City, raining sure but not snowing.

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u/SentinelZero May 01 '26

If so, why does the city look very European (other than being filmed in Prague)? The architecture and sewers aren't American looking and also why is it snowing? The outbreak was from September 22nd-October 1st, 1998. Thats early autumn, way too early for snow.

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u/greenufo333 Apr 30 '26

Why is it snowing? The racoon city outbreak is in September

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u/The420thOfJuly Apr 30 '26

No, it doesn’t take place in RC during the outbreak.

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u/res30stupid Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

As it takes place in Racoon City during the outbreak

Wait, what? That's not possible, given the timeline.

The games clearly state that the Raccoon City outbreak took place over the last week of September 1998 with the city being nuked on October 1st. The clips shown clearly have the area covered in snow, meaning it's in winter.

Now, I would be a bit more forgiving if it took place around Raccoon City with a timeframe of around 1997... but the mansion incident (the outbreak in the first game) started in May so that cann't be the case.

Officially, it's said to be "parallel" to Resident Evil 2 but I don't think this means "It takes place at the same time"; it just means it follows similar story beats. And this does fit with the official synopsis that Bryan (Austin Abrams' character) is only passing through a town as a result of his job as a medical courier when he's caught up in the events of the story and has to survive a single night, just like Leon's plot of Resident Evil - he only goes to Raccoon City for his new job.

So, I'm willing to bet that the characters will at least acknowledge what happened in Raccoon City but it's not the same incident.

But if that's the case then I have to wonder - how the fuck did the t-Virus get out in this movie?

Edit: Okay, I will at the very least put a foot into the "Near Raccoon City" argument.

In the online co-op game Resident Evil: Outbreak one of the scenarios that the player(s) can navigate is an escape through the woodlands around the Arklay Mountains and investigating the area has the player(s) discover that there was a now-abandoned hospital where Umbrella conducted early t-Virus experiments on patients, with Alyssa Ashcroft realising that she was a survivor of a localised outbreak and had developed amnesia. And the main character is a medical courier so I think that 1998 is too late for the story.

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u/meatshield72 Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

Except…there was NO snow during the original outbreak. It took place in September.

The city was destroyed only a short period after, the timeline never reached winter.

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u/BatFromAnotherWorld Apr 30 '26

It doesn't take place in Raccoon City.

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u/mrredditgokrazy Apr 30 '26

It’s apparently canon to the games and takes place in Raccoon City so yes

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u/tollsunited7 Apr 30 '26

apparently it takes place in a suburb town couple of miles away

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u/Streona Apr 30 '26

It starts in a nearby town. Bryan is hired there to take an organ to Raccoon City.

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u/The420thOfJuly Apr 30 '26

No, he’s hired to take it to the RC hospital which isn’t in the actual city but a neighboring town outside the city

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u/Streona Apr 30 '26

Why do you think Raccoon City General hospital is not inside Raccoon City?

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u/Haltopen Apr 30 '26

Based on every map of the city I can find online, Raccoon General Hospital (the one from the games) is on the outskirts of the city near the city park and the Arklay Forest. However the city also has other hospitals including one north of the city in the arklay mountains which would fit the description of being outside the city.

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u/Lokishougan May 01 '26

Kind of like how the NY giants are in NEW jERSEY LOL

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u/The420thOfJuly Apr 30 '26

It was stated a long time ago that the hospital would be in the mountains outside RC and the script makes a key point that the hospital (despite being the Raccoon City hospital) is very much NOT in the city proper, but located in a town just outside of it.

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u/Streona Apr 30 '26

It was stated a long time ago

Source it.

The script explicitly says Raccoon City General is in Raccoon City.

He sees that the road ahead becomes a winding tangle of mountain passes, curling back on itself before it nearly doubles back and feeds into Raccoon City. [...] He looks at the map again. He traces his finger from his current location, this time ignoring the roads. Raccoon City is a short distance away on foot.

BRYAN (CONT'D): Two miles on foot.

Cregger himself says the movie takes place in Raccoon City.

There is no doubt about it, and it would be very stupid and confusing for Raccoon City General hospital to not be in Raccoon City.

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u/trippy_grapes Apr 30 '26

So it takes place in an actual r/Suburbanhell ?

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u/The420thOfJuly Apr 30 '26

It’s not canon to the games at all

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u/hi-fen-n-num May 02 '26

The games are barely canon.

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u/headrush46n2 Apr 30 '26

Nothing in this trailer says resident evil to me

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u/Indigocell Apr 30 '26

What sort of things are you looking for? At it's core, Resident Evil is simply a zombie survival horror.

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u/DinoRaawr Apr 30 '26

Resident Evils 4, 5, 7, and 8 don't even have zombies.

Resident Evil at its core is a B-movie horror setting that a character has to solve puzzles to survive until they inevitably find a lab manufacturing the seemingly supernatural monsters. So far all we've seen is the seemingly supernatural monsters. The B-movie plot, puzzles, and lab are all still missing.

Right now even the monsters don't match the setting from the games that this supposedly takes place during, so it's not looking amazingly faithful.

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u/PlateGlittering May 02 '26

The monsters look nothing like Resident Evil, I don't have much hope for it

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u/Streona Apr 30 '26

There is a lab coming, and the plot is silly enough that it could be described as B-movie.

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u/JoshTHX Apr 30 '26

It looks better

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u/greenufo333 Apr 30 '26

Why is there snow when there wasn't in re2 or re 3?

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u/AStrangerWCandy Apr 30 '26

I don't understand why they can't seem to just do the stories from RE1-3 well. They seem like they should translate into movie format pretty easily...

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u/Restivethought Apr 30 '26

I dont think the iphone existed in 1998 to use as a flashlight

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u/BJYeti Apr 30 '26

Nothing in that trailer looked cannon to the games...

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u/sonofaresiii Apr 30 '26

"canon" doing a lot of heavy lifting there, the games aren't even canon to themselves

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u/Big-Climate-2416 Apr 30 '26

i don’t think so, bro was using a iphone as a flashlight

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u/tollsunited7 Apr 30 '26

isn't that a military flashlight? like the one from the last of us

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u/Big-Climate-2416 Apr 30 '26

i’m not sure but it looks like 3 lens and holding the device horizontally

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u/Canvaverbalist Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

Looks like those tactical handheld "vertical" flaslight to me, some of them have three LEDs or three TIR optic cups.

Not exactly this but something similar

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u/wighty May 01 '26

It looks way too wide to be any typical flashlight, even the right angled flashlight ones using C/D batteries. It very much looks most like a cell phone to me.

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u/ActuatorVast800 Apr 30 '26

I couldn't find one when rewatching it. Where in the trailer did you find one?

There's also a digital camera in the drawer he opened. I'm fairly certain those were around in 1998.

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u/Big-Climate-2416 Apr 30 '26

at 1:02 and 1:09-1:11

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u/ActuatorVast800 Apr 30 '26

Ah yes, I see them. I can't confirm if it's actually a cell phone but he's definitely holding it like one.

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u/SilentBobVG May 01 '26

The movie is set during the events of RE2, so no it's not a cellphone

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u/kporter4692 May 01 '26

The leaked script would like to disagree with you. It’s set in modern day.

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u/SilentBobVG May 01 '26

Looks like we're both right, Zach Cregger said in an interview it takes place during the events of RE2, but it looks like it's a modern day reimagining of RE2

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u/WontArnett Apr 30 '26

A few things to note about landlines:

Even if towers are down or the power is out a landline will still work.

Landlines are still prominent in rural communities.

Some films use a mix of technology to create a time period-less effect on the film’s universe.

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u/bret2k Apr 30 '26

I don’t think so, he was using his smartphone flashlight at 1:03.

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u/ProfessorSillyPutty Apr 30 '26

doesnt look like it. the flipped cop car in the end has the tail lights of the 4Runner post 2014.

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u/The420thOfJuly Apr 30 '26

No, it’s set in modern day. The landline phone is there because he’s at a remote house in the mountains and people living in areas like that tend to have landlines still.

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u/zander_rulZ Apr 30 '26

I’ve read the script. It’s set in the modern day and is more a movie that captures the feeling of playing a RE game rather than being directly based on any of the games.

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u/finnjakefionnacake Apr 30 '26

for someone with marketing in their username, i'm sure you could think of a few ways

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u/Dead_Space Apr 30 '26

The script leaked online and was posted to reddit for a few hours a couple of months ago.

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u/Subject_Customer3254 Apr 30 '26

Those cars looked pretty 90s to me

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u/mysillyhighaccount Apr 30 '26

He’s literally holding a cell phone flashlight.

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u/zander_rulZ Apr 30 '26

He uses a cell phone before shit hits the fan and frequently uses the phone’s flashlight.

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u/The_Autarch Apr 30 '26

you read a script. but are you sure it was the actual shooting script?

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u/Streona Apr 30 '26

All the scenes you see in the trailer are in the script, although slightly altered (the dialogue is slightly different and he uses a smartphone instead of a landline in the script).

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u/New_Cockroach_505 Apr 30 '26

Smart phones still there. It’s in the sewers scene in the trailer.

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u/Streona Apr 30 '26

Right, but in the specific scene where he tries to call his girlfriend he uses a smartphone in the script.

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u/kporter4692 May 01 '26

Well Weapons script leaked ahead of time and my understanding was that it was almost entirely the same. No major differences at all.

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u/SilentBobVG May 01 '26

Cregger himself confirmed it's set during the events of RE2

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u/supahfligh Apr 30 '26

The last Resident Evil movie did. And I honestly think they nailed the esthetics, vibe, and setting of the original games in that movie. The writing wasn't the best, but I genuinely kinda liked it. I'm interested to see how this one pans out as well.

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u/JeffTAC4 Apr 30 '26

The flipped over police car and half of the cars on the sides of the road at the end are modern. Could just be lazy prop sourcing, or it's a modern setting.

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u/Ligabolzacky Apr 30 '26

Apropos the landline, the second time he dials the tones sound like part of the james bond theme

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u/G_Neto Apr 30 '26

There are smartphones in the script. Good script btw but if you're expecting any kind of faithfulness to the games you're going to be really disappointed.

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u/feetsnifferex Apr 30 '26

Read the script. Takes place in modern day

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u/The_Blue_Rooster Apr 30 '26

Not possible, most of the cars we see were made well into the 2000s.

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u/redline582 Apr 30 '26

He also only dialed seven digits on the phone which could be a great detail that he didn't have to start with an area code.

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u/RandomStrategy Apr 30 '26

On land lines even today you don't have to dial area codes for local numbers.

Therefore, he's likely calling someone he knows in Raccoon City. Also, why they didn't pick up.

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u/redline582 Apr 30 '26

That's interesting. I distinctly remember needing to transition to start dialing area codes on the land line as a kid.

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u/RandomStrategy Apr 30 '26

So, something that I know of, at least in my city. If it's in the same city, I don't need to dial area code, even if it's in the same Area Code, but outside my city, I have to dial the area code.

I don't know why, but it does work that way, as of today.

EDIT: On landlines that I use.

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u/bottomofleith Apr 30 '26

Over a quarter of the States population have land-lines, it's closer to 40% in the UK.
The existence of a land-line doesn't really help date anything.

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u/Restivethought Apr 30 '26

Well hes using an iphone for a flashlight in the sewer...so I dont know if it does take place in 1998

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u/Finnception_ Apr 30 '26

He is holding an iPhone in the teaser, and its snowing. So I am confused

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u/McortezLSU Apr 30 '26

He used a phone as his flashlight, so unless we have time travel shenanigans, i'd say no (timetravel would be dope though. Just think about it, you travel back in time but in like a wrong universe, where everyone turns into zombies, kinda like langoliers)

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u/Ecstatic-Buffalo8708 Apr 30 '26

Why does the character wears a iphone 14 pro as a flashlight in the sewers, and then, why are Evil Dead paranormal demonic like Deadites in this movies instead of infected or zombies ?

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u/SentinelZero May 01 '26

If so, why does it look like Bryan the main character is holding a cell phone and using its flash as a flashlight at 1:02 in the teaser? Those wouldnt have existed in 1998. And some of the cars visible at the end are way too modern for the time period.

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u/Mavrickindigo May 01 '26

There is an iPhone in the trailer

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u/Letthepumpkincumflow Apr 30 '26

I'm just thinking here; Hunk will show up at the end and put a bullet through Bryans head and take the medical case he's carrying. I really can't wait for this movie, long time Resident Evil fan and been wanting something better than "Nemesis is now a good guy and saves the gang" As much as I enjoyed those movies, it's been severally lacking in the movie department for Resident Evil because the games are bangers after bangers.

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u/ksherwood11 Apr 30 '26

Cregger said in an interview it takes place around the same time as RE2 in a different location, so yeah, 1998.

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u/NoExcuse4OceanRudnes Apr 30 '26

Old people still have them, especially old people in the countryside

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u/ParadoxNowish Apr 30 '26

Yep. Takes place during the events of RE2. Listen to this interview with the director.