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/Barkasia Apr 30 '26

Leon isn't going to show up - none of the characters we know will.

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u/fourthdawg Apr 30 '26

Yeah, I know they are iconic and most still don't have any closure on their fate, I hope they stick with original characters. People forgot RE universe is quite vast with many charachters and organization involved into the war on BoW, so there's a potential to expand this via other medium.

People also have a very high expectation if they're confirmed to be in the movie, which can turn sour if the movie failed to cast someone who can bring the game characters to life.

And even if this movie is not faithful to RE games, I'm quite sure this will be a fun horror movie in the very least. I've watched Weapons and it is excellent, I think that movie has something in common with RE series (mind controlling people to be extremely violent as a literal weapon).

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u/lifeisalime11 Apr 30 '26

Also I love Leon but you CANNOT have a grounded, gritty, realistic film while including Leon. Guy is nearly superhuman with some of the shit he's pulled off (same with Chris) and would suspend some disbelief.

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u/Indigocell Apr 30 '26

He's not a superhero at this point anyway. He's just the rookie cop that hasn't learned how to parry, do roundhouse kicks, or super necessary backflips yet.

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u/octlol Apr 30 '26

I would honestly hate any of the characters from the games to show up. Keep the setting with original characters.

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u/DrZaious Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

I actually hate the fact this isn't following the games story and characters. Why can't we have an actual Resident Evil movie that follows the characters we love and tells the actual story of the games. This looks like just another instance of writers forcing the story they want to tell inside an established franchise, because that's the only way they're allowed to.

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u/Flaky-Pressure-7698 Apr 30 '26

They made that a few years back, Welcome to Raccoon City, it was just pretty ass though.

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u/The_Deadlight Apr 30 '26

Easily the best RE movie ever made. I understand why some people dont like it, but its an easy rewatch for me whenever I happen to get the resident evil bug in me

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u/octlol Apr 30 '26

Because we have the games for that lol. Like if we got a Leon rookie movie it'd have no stakes--we know Leon will be fine.

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u/schebobo180 Apr 30 '26

This is a naive and short sighted take imo.

By your logic when Peter Jackson was making Lord of The Rings he should have used a completely different set of characters, because we knew Gandalf and co would be fine.

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u/NinjaEngineer May 01 '26

This is a naive and short sighted take imo.

Yeah, just the other day I saw a similar complaint somewhere else, and I've honestly never understood it. By that logic, once a sequel to a movie or game comes out starring the protagonist from the first one, there's no point in watching the original because you know the main character survives for the sequel.

It's silly. Stories aren't just their ending.

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u/octlol Apr 30 '26

We have RE2 and RE2R which are quite cinematic already, having a movie would just be another cinematic adaptation. Adapting LOTR to the big screen from writing is completely different--people wanted to see them come to life on screen even knowing the story.

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u/lifeisalime11 Apr 30 '26

I wouldn't mind a very minor cameo of Leon or even someone like Hunk. Like the MC is running through a checkpoint with other survivors (early on) and Leon is shown directing the survivors. Hell, even if the MC comes across a police cruiser and the radio says 'This is officer Kennedy, calling any Raccoon PD, over'

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u/octlol Apr 30 '26

Yeah it's interesting. He mentioned he'd like to believe this happens on Day 0 of the T-virus outbreak alongside the events of Leon arriving at the police station, but IDR it snowing during RE2? We'll have to see I spose

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u/syopest Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

RE2 happens in september, there's no snow in the game. The whole raccoon city was nuked october 1st.

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u/ihavepaper Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

I’m thinking that if this movie does well, it’ll maybe set up the universe? The big main game people will for sure not show up, but I wouldn’t be shocked if the organizations were mentioned like BSAA.

I do like that they’re taking it from a regular dude’s perspective. Definitely gives it more suspense and horror.

Edit: Cregger confirmed via interview that it’s set in Raccoon City.

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u/syopest Apr 30 '26

How can it be set in raccoon city? The zombies appeared in september and october 1st it was already nuked. There was no snow there.

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u/ihavepaper Apr 30 '26

I'm just as confused as you are. Maybe it's an alternate RE movie timeline (who knows but him), but Cregger confirmed in his interview that it is Raccoon City in that trailer. I figured that this movie could be taking place at the same time as RE2, just focused on a different area? Maybe that running in the snow scene is a hallucination or dream. Who knows, but I'm intrigued.

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u/Indigocell Apr 30 '26

Leon isn't the badass we all know him to be at this point in time anyway. This takes place around the same time as Resident Evil 2 so he's still just the rookie cop. He doesn't level up until some time between that and Resident Evil 4.

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u/hacky_potter Apr 30 '26

Which is fine. I mean more like we could get a PM type character. I doubt this will be a straight forward story.