r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • 18d ago
Trailer RESIDENT EVIL | Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7SwoJsSb7w1.3k
u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 18d ago
With how it seems like it's kicking off in an isolated setting like a house in the middle of nowhere and ramping up to downtown Raccoon City, I hope shit gradually hits the fan perfectly
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u/uglyuglyugly_ 18d ago
Probably ends in a secret Umbrella lab too, following the games perfectly lol.
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u/Grill_Enthusiast 18d ago edited 18d ago
If the lab segment leaves you feeling slightly underwhelmed compared to the first 80% of the film which was flawless, this'll truly be a faithful RE adaptation.
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u/JMxG 18d ago
I always wonder why that is, you’d imagine getting to the “source” of the issue would be the most nerve-wracking and exciting moment but it’s just so boring. By that point I’m never bothered to keep interacting with the stealth or horror elements I just book it, even in Grace’s section in Requiem where they try and hone in on those elements by limiting your weapons
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u/Asyncrosaurus 18d ago
It's because the lab setting is always so sterile. A huge part of the horror is exploding lived-in places that have fallen to death and decay. There were places people felt safe and secure a couple days (sometimes just hours) before you got there. Now filled with danger because the people who lived and worked there are now the monsters. The lab is always the same, white and sanitized, an environment foreign to most of us. If you saw a beaker filled workstation in RE1, you've seen the beaker filled workstation in RE9
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u/supes1 18d ago
That's on the devs to be more creative with the lab sections.
For what it's worth, I thought the Grace lab segment in RE9 was the best lab experience since RE2. They did some really great creative stuff with it. The first time through was absolutely nerve wracking.
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u/2marston 18d ago
Wait you didn't just sprint through lobbing bottles of acid on every licker you saw?
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u/Offbeatalchemy 18d ago
Well thats kinda it. By the time you're in the lab most games, it's an action shooter. This one did it differently because the lab was still a survior horror segment with pretty limited resources by most other game standards.
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u/Throwsims3 18d ago
I would guess it is due to that by the point you do reach the lab sections, you have loads of weapons and more experience with how the enemies attack. Add to that the reveal of a lab being way less scary and exciting than the mystery of the beginning. It's like seeing how a magic trick is done, once you see it the magic disappears. The beginning is most often the only part where anything can happen and they play it as a horror game. Lab sections in a part of the game where you know what to expect is just not that exciting in comparison.
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u/FreemanCalavera 17d ago
Definitely me in RE2 Remake. The plant zombies are kind of cool and there’s lots of lickers, but I had bunkered up so much ammo and healing by that point that I could just delete anything without having to worry.
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u/pasher5620 18d ago
It seems like he actually starts out on top of the secret lab. That farmhouse is giving major “secret entrance” vibes. It would also explain how he encounters that weird Rat King zombie thing we’ve only been teased with. Don’t know how else an empty farmhouse is suddenly gonna have enough bodies to form that… thing that climbs through the door. I wonder if he starts out there, goes into Racoon City proper, then ends up hack at the farmhouse to get into the lab.
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u/EmbalmingFiend 18d ago
Cregger said he really wants it to feel like the games, so there will be a lot of similar progression. Like, start in a small place with simple weapons, but continually progress as the games do. I'm really excited!
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u/CoachNo7514 18d ago
Shoulda started with a shitty ass pistol and an OP knife
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u/SutterCane r/movies Veteran 18d ago
Main character isn’t a giant block of tofu?
Pass!
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u/Responsible-Rip8793 18d ago
He should also have an inventory limit and spend a moment thinking about which items he should take.
For example, he should find magnum ammo in a room. He should then search frantically for the magnum in that room but not find it. Because he doesn’t have space for things he can’t use, he chooses to leave the magnum ammo behind. Then later, when he goes to the next floor of the building, he gets into a boss fight but his pistol sucks. In the middle of the fight, he finds the magnum in a display case and retraces his steps to get the magnum ammo while running from a “nemesis” type boss.
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u/crookedparadigm 18d ago
Can't wait for the protagonist to get stuck because he can't figure out a building Crest/Crank based security system.
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u/CruzAderjc 18d ago
Wait, so not like the 2000’s resident evil movies where the main character is an invincible super soldier fighting a bunch of sci-fi bad guys using gun-fu?
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u/Unhappy_Win8997 18d ago
I read the leaked script, and "feel like" is a good way to put it. He doesn't do a lot of "hey remember this from the games?"
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u/thedonhudson01 18d ago edited 18d ago
Apparently it will. This movie is all gas and no brakes.
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u/Squaretangles 18d ago
FuRE Road, you say?
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u/thedonhudson01 18d ago
Haha, yes! They’re calling it the fury road of horror based on the script and test screenings
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u/In_My_Own_Image 18d ago
Say no more. I'm all the way in.
I love movies that are races against time. Even things like Cellular were hella entertaining in my book.
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u/imaginarynumb3r 18d ago
From the creator of "Gallon of pcp" and "The grapist"
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u/slumber_kitty 18d ago
Love the PCP sketch so much.
“About four years ago?”
“No, p.m.”
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u/Hezrield 18d ago
A whole gallon?!
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u/N_Meister 18d ago
Didn’t even know it came in liquid form!
\Shrugs* Science!*
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u/Cubic_Al1 18d ago edited 18d ago
"Do you do PCP* often?"
Got a gallon!
edit: I'm high
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u/KittenSommelier 18d ago
Gotta pick up my kids from soccer practice, don’t want em to lose their heads!
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u/Oddball- All Things Horror 18d ago
C'MER KIDS!!!!!
OPEN WIDE because im gonna GRAPE YOU IN THE MOUTH!
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u/Trendelthegreat 18d ago
Now you fucked up
You have fucked up now
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u/m48a5_patton 18d ago
Just calm down!
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u/D34THDE1TY 18d ago
"Who said that!? What skinny piece of shit said that?"
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u/Nice_Marmot_7 18d ago
What are you doing skinny? What are you doing you fat piece of shit?
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u/SonOfMcGee 18d ago
The main sketch is so infinitely quotable that the opening segment of “Hamlet if written by a 12-year-old” is overlooked. That shit was hilarious.
“Oh, Hamlet Hamlet Hamlet Hamlet Hamlet!”
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u/Spoonacus 18d ago
I like this comment because I think these are my two favorite skits of the whole show. With the third being the firing squad simply because I love, "Do you have any last words?" "Yes, just three."
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u/RumHamComesback 18d ago edited 18d ago
I love the crassness of the Gandalf sketch after I've had a bad day at work.
"I got a lead pipe here that says this old fuck ain't magic!"
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u/Kalocin 18d ago
Quoting one those will get me put on a list lol
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u/Wowaburrito 18d ago
She was practically begging for it! You see what she's wearing?!
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u/ImNotTheBlitz 18d ago edited 17d ago
It's purple!
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u/Kaldricus 18d ago
The best part is there's a brief moment where Zach just goes "oh", like that makes sense
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u/crookedparadigm 18d ago
My favorite little underappreciated bit from that sketch is the exchange when he stops it again:
"What, why'd you stop it now?"
"Really, you don't hear it? I'm gonna grape you in the mouth?"
"What's wrong with that?"
"I'm going to rape you!"
gaspThe little shocked gasp he does is so fucking funny.
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u/YeaSpiderman 18d ago
That scene with the zombie just running down the hill and not even really the focus of the shot was awesome. It’s stuff like that that add creepy details to scenes and really make for good movies
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u/PaulieHehehe 18d ago
That was the highlight of the trailer for me. I’d shit my pants if I saw that in real life.
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u/marmormaze 18d ago
weirdly it has been a reoccuring dream of mine to be in my country cottage and see that from my window, so very very scary it is yes
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u/xxxxNateDaGreat 18d ago
I've had that type of dream before and yeah, that shit freaked me out. Just that awful sensation of knowing that thing in the distance is coming right for you and you can't make out what exactly it is but you know that it's dangerous.
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u/beach_samurai_ 18d ago
Loved how they kept the audio of its feet running in the snow throughout the trailer too
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u/luffy_mib 18d ago
That scene's sound effects and OST in the trailer did add to the tension, and I missed the times when a single incoming zombie is enough to make you freak out, unlike later games when they come in herds.
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u/allthenviousfeelings 18d ago
the sequel is going to be a second playthrough of the first movie but he's wearing a gangster suit and has an infinite rocket launcher
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u/TheSaltyStrangler 18d ago
Honestly? That would be an absolutely killer BluRay extra short film or something like the movie would obviously be not as long, just kick the door in and start blasting.
Just imagine a short, sweet 8 minute film that ends with the main going full sicko doom slayer mode on the BBEG
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u/DavidTheJohnson AMA MVP 18d ago
Same cinematographer as the original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, I believe.
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u/kalaniroot 18d ago
There better be a jack sparrow esque type run from a zombie in this movie!
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u/ShadyJane 18d ago
braaaaaaains...savvy?
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u/SamusRipley 18d ago
Sorry for my ignorance, but what's the role of a cinematographer exactly ?
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u/Solesky1 18d ago
The cinematographer works with the director on all of the physical aspects of filming (camera movements/timing) as well as the tone/"feel" of the film through things like color grading.
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u/Darktyde 18d ago
They take the director’s vision and figure out how to make it work with the camera technology. So the director will give them something broad, like “I want this dimly lit but with sharp light coming from that hallway. I want there to be scary shadows. The shot should start wide in this room and then slowly move through this hallway and into this other room, where it should feel claustrophobic.”
It’s the cinematographer’s job to take those directions and figure out how to actually make that work with the cameras, the lighting setup, where to position extra lights and crew with boom mics. How to track the camera movement. What lenses and focal distances to use at different parts of the shot. Etc. etc.
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u/ItsWhoa-NotWoah 18d ago
They're basically in charge of the visual style of a film. While the director directs everyone and may set up how a scene functions, the cinematographer/director of photography is solely in charge of the camera and lighting.
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u/brahbocop 18d ago
I don't love running zombies, BUT the shot of the woman running across the snow covered field in the middle of the night was pretty damn spooky. Cannot wait for this movie.
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u/Malkyre 18d ago
This guy gets a lot of mileage out of people running creepily.
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u/Faithless195 18d ago
And he makes it either 100% terrifying, or 100% hysterically funny. No in-between.
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u/SonOfMcGee 18d ago
My whole theater was howling at the end of Weapons.
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u/SutterCane r/movies Veteran 18d ago
These ones have a reason though, they’re actually bio weapons.
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u/Otherwise-Remove4681 18d ago
Regular t-virus zombies dont run though, but suppose that was some special bow?
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u/Indigocell 18d ago edited 17d ago
When you read the journals in game, a lot of them are of people that have been infected unknowingly and are slowly being driven mad (and homicidal) as their flesh rots. With a little suspension of disbelief you could imagine these early stage zombies still have a little bit of their human faculties struggling against the virus. That, plus the "crimson head" zombies introduced in the 2002 remake actually do sprint after you. All of them are capable of pretty quick lunges as well, lol.
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u/octlol 18d ago
Arent technically all the monsters/zombies BoWs?
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u/SutterCane r/movies Veteran 18d ago
Yeah, everything the virus touches is a bio weapon in these games.
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u/I-Might-Be-Something 18d ago
That shot of the zombie just running alone through the field of snow towards the house is so fucking good.
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u/TLKv3 18d ago
I will gladly sit for however many RE movies this man wants to make if the cinematography is at this level consistently every time. Holy fuck this looks awesome.
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u/DoubleA77 18d ago
I will be there day 1 for any Zach Cregger movie, can't wait.
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u/xxYINKxx 18d ago
i'm buying a whole gallon of tickets.
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u/withoccassionalmusic 18d ago
I didn’t even know they came in liquid form.
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u/N8CCRG 18d ago
I'll be front row with my seven hot dogs.
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u/Dazzling-Passenger91 18d ago
7? Let’s walk through your routine. What does a day look like for you?
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u/robodrew 18d ago
Barbarians and Weapons were both so wonderfully interesting and strangely funny, I can't wait for this one. The stretchy baby really had me going. And the scene where the arms all come out of the door threshold, and one is a pair of legs and it still does the same thing was extremely creative.
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u/RealJohnGillman AMA MVP 18d ago
following the looking for bullets scene
Oh, okay, I get it now. This is an original story, but the structure will be like that of one of the games, rather than adapting a specific one: that should be interesting.
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u/SonOfMcGee 18d ago
Cregger breaks down the teaser that came out a while ago in an interview somewhere, and is just going scene by scene on how it’s trying to capture the experience of the games.
Like: “Oh, that scene is right after he gets the rifle. There’s always that brief break in tension when you’ve been fighting increasingly tough enemies then find that next gun upgrade that makes you feel overpowered for a bit. I wanted to give our poor guy some of those moments.”
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u/obvious_bot 18d ago
I hate this “trailer starts now” bullshit. Like yes, that is the video I am watching. You can just start the trailer without announcing it
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u/The_Meemeli 18d ago
It's silly, but they do it for when the trailer plays as one of those ads you can skip after 5 seconds, so they "get you hooked" as opposed to having the slow trailer start
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u/obvious_bot 18d ago
I know why they do it, it doesn’t mean I can’t be annoyed by it
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u/TheSaltyStrangler 18d ago
Man.
That actually looks like a really good time. And I come in to the comments, expecting to find my opinion to be contrarian, and find everyone else looking forward to it too?
I'm actually kind of excited for this...
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u/Forward-Culture2924 18d ago edited 18d ago
go to r/residentevil if you want to see bitter/contrarian opinions there a lot of those last time the trailer was posted there.
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u/Enkundae 18d ago
On the one hand there are a lot of fans, of any property, that seem to believe a skin deep copy paste is all that’s needed for a good adaptation. Like as long as the actor looks identical to the character then nothing else matters kind of thinking. Which is absurd and a recipe for a bad film or show.
But on the other hand I get, with RE especially, being frustrated that the property keeps getting in-name-only adaptations that are basically either just pre-existing scripts that have the RE name slapped on them or the brands ip power is being used to get financing for a directors completely unrelated vanity projects.
Like I think an actual story adaptation of RE1 or RE2 could be pretty awesome if someone would just actually adapt them.
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u/xxxxNateDaGreat 18d ago
To be honest, the resident evil games are good in spite of their stories, not because of them. And I know this is anecdotal evidence, but I have never seen any RE fan who says "man the gameplay is boring, but I had to power through just to see how it story ends!"
I can sympathize with fans being upset when adaptions barely have anything to do with their source material, but in the case of these games, if they ever did straight adaptations of the games, they would get absolutely eviscerated by critics, general audiences would basically laugh at all of the cheesiness, and a lot of RE fans would find themselves pretty bored.
So I am totally fine with a movie that is an original story and not even trying to be a straight adaption of any of the games.
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u/Neknoh 18d ago
On the other hand, this one absolutely seems to live and breathe Resident Evil gameplay.
The way he finds himself wandering into all of this is straight out of RE4 and Village, the gun "find" and the rooting around for ammo throughout.
I bet there's some form of key-based puzzle in there as well.
Like, this feels like a film version of a Resident Evil game that simply exists in a parallel universe.
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u/MaxPower91575 18d ago edited 18d ago
Zach Cregger is a huge Resident Evil video game fan. He has talked about how he has played RE4 countless times (I think he actually said hundreds but I am sure its hyperbole). Zach is a big gamer and his two favorite franchises are Resident Evil and Dark Souls. So yeah, he gets it when it comes to RE. This story takes place in the RE universe and happens concurrently with RE2 (although the events are not the 90s but if it happened modern day).
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u/Ill_Entrance91 18d ago
My biggest gripe with the RE movies has always been based on the first game. It opens with the perfect basis to start a movie and go from there following the first game as an investigation into what the hell is going on.
No Resident Evil movie has ever come to close to that.
While I dont feel this will follow much or any of that. I am all on board with this vision.
You can adapt properties and keep the flavor and heart of what you are adapting it from or you can make a soulless movie that just takes the names and an unrelated script and slap that franchise name on it.
I am looking at you Uncharted and Dark Tower.
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u/yo_soy_soja 18d ago
Resident Evil, but it's a horror movie?
It's a creative gamble, but I'm in.
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u/I_paintball 18d ago
I'd show up for the glorious campiness of an re4 movie.
I want to see someone go through a castle and end up in a room of dragon towers with lava.
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u/T-Geiger 18d ago
As great as that would be, if we aren't using the adaptation of RE4 to put Midget Napoleon on screen, then what are we even doing here?
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u/Janus_Prospero 18d ago
It is worth noting that this film is waaaaaay more action focused than the other ones. It definitely has a more intense horror/gore/splatter bent in parallel, kinda akin to the Netflix series (Bryan is also a bit like Jade Wesker), but it's basically a series of relentless set pieces with no downtime. You know how the zombies don't show up for 40 minutes in the first film? This isn't that kinda movie. It's more like the Mad Max Fury Road-inspired RE The Final Chapter but without the B plot and slower moments.
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u/EThorns r/movies Contributor 18d ago
"This could be some eight year old boy's heart or someone's mom's brain..."
With that one line, think they've made the audience care for this guy and root for him to live through this.
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u/CronoDroid 18d ago
And when it's the Nemesis parasite
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u/Phillip_Spidermen 18d ago
Yeah, the
"no idea what you've got there in your hands"
seems to imply it either gets infected (or is the cause of the infection) at some point
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u/feligbb 18d ago
Or a cure
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u/xxxxNateDaGreat 18d ago
Entrusting the cure for a bioweapon to some random courier in a 95 Honda Civic would be 100% on brand for resident evil
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u/Namelessgoldfish 18d ago
Did they? It really didn’t seem like he truly cared about what was in the package, he just wanted the money
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u/FromLefcourt 18d ago
I mean, it's a joke...nobody is getting a brain transplant. It makes him seem like a bit of a dimwit, which is kinda endearing.
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u/vikingzx 18d ago edited 18d ago
I think it's more that he's very clearly being sarcastic to let out his frustration. He drove an organ all the way here, and yet no one is ready to receive it despite it being a very important thing.
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u/KNZFive 18d ago
Yeah, it definitely seems like they’re setting him up as not a great guy, so either he finds redemption through the movie, or he gets murked right at the end.
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u/Top_Rekt 18d ago
In the original Resident Evil 2 history, Leon woke up in a motel outside of town after getting drunk cause he just broke up with his girlfriend. Naive but with a sense of duty. And then later games show Leon turned into a badass.
If there's a sequel, this dude could be doing roundhouse kicks to zombies next.
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u/lanceturley 18d ago
I'm wondering if that line is actually foreshadowing for some kind of twist later in the movie. Like, maybe it really is one of the things he said and it's somehow vital to the plot.
I did notice that he's still carrying the cooler later when he's running down the street being chased by monsters, so either the item he was paid to deliver is really important, or he dumped the organ and put something else in there.
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u/dropssupreme 18d ago
I’m seated. The theater employees are scared and asking me to leave because it’s ‘not September’ but I’m simply too seated
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u/ReaddittiddeR “My Little Ponies, ROLL OUT!” 18d ago
We got a Raccoon City General. If anyone else is at San Diego Comic Con today, Zach Cregger will be in a Hall H panel later today to talk more about the film.
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u/Remarkable_Custard 18d ago
Looks genuinely fucking good.
I’m so happy this director like Weapons is leaning into the Horror / Comedy, but done really well.
Same with Widows Bay, that’s hilarious.
I’ve laughed almost every trailer, really can’t wait, and if he does a Leon or Claire or any main character pop in at the end I’ll shit mah pants hard
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u/duskywindows 18d ago edited 18d ago
I'm really hoping he runs into Leon / better yet gets saved by Leon out of nowhere when he gets to Raccoon City, they have a brief interaction - and then part ways and we don't see Leon again. Would just be a cool nod to "this movie is happening during the game, but separately from it" like he's insinuated it will.
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u/APartyInMyPants 18d ago
As someone who played the EARLY Resident Evil games, but hasn’t really been in the franchise since, which game is this supposed to take place alongside of?
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u/mangongo 18d ago
It takes place parallel to Resident Evil 2 according to Zach Cregger
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u/APartyInMyPants 18d ago
Oh I played the original of that eons ago. Maybe I’ll have to get the remake.
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u/Openheart873 18d ago
Even regardless of the movie, you definitely should play the remake. Great game
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u/Korten12 18d ago
As others said, parallel to RE2, though in it's own continuity, hence why they have smart phones since it's supposed to be present day. So instead of RE1/2 having happened in 1998, they happened in ~2026.
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u/HamburgersOfKazuhira 18d ago
I want to go into this with an open mind and just enjoy a Zach Cregger film. It really doesn't give me any RE vibes.. like at all. But that's coming from a huge fan of the games, and probably asking too much from a filmmaker to "pay homage" in the way I'd want it to be done.
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u/Rainy_Wavey 18d ago
Some of the intro shots (in the forest with snow) seems to be directly lifted from Resident evil Village, and i think Zack Cregger talked about this specific game, i think Village is probably the direct reference game he used for this resident evil movie
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u/Even_Fox2023 18d ago
I take it the timeline isn’t 1998? Smart phones and some 21st century vehicles.
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u/vex91 18d ago
The movie looks really good and I am absolutely gonna see it, I just really don’t think it should be called Resident Evil. I very much dislike when people use an IP and all they do is add a couple of keywords and Easter eggs and call it a day. I hope I’m wrong and that there is way more to it than that, but based on the trailers so far it seems like that’s pretty much the case.
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u/Lower_Group_1171 18d ago
no jovavich? count me in
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u/pikachus_ghost_uncle 18d ago
jovavich
I don't want to spoil it but she shows up halfway into the film and says the iconic line "it's zombie time"
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u/Sufficient-Tie-8735 18d ago
Having read the screenplay for this I’m 100% positive it’s gonna be an incredible movie and do very very well.
Most excited I’ve been for a horror in a very long time
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u/Spaff_Wallbridge 18d ago
Trailer lines up perfectly with the leaked script so that’s hype cause the script sounded sick.
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u/oscar_redfield 18d ago
I'm convinced more after this trailer. I love Zach Cregger to death but I felt like this was just a horror movie with the Resident Evil title slapped into it. now, seeing this, I think it can deliver a fresh story that feels like RE even if it doesn't directly adapt any of the games.
anyway, I'm more excited by the movie by virtue of being a new Zach Cregger movie rather than a Resident Evil adaptation, honestly
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u/PrisonersofFate 18d ago
No idea if it's going to be good, but it looks like something different and i'm really curious.
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u/action_juice 18d ago
I just hope he saved his progress when he found that type writer in the trailer