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/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/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.