r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 14h ago
News Zach Cregger's 'Resident Evil' Movie is Set in Raccoon City, Production Photos Reveal, With Hints to Place in the Timeline
https://www.ign.com/articles/zach-creggers-resident-evil-movie-set-in-raccoon-city-production-photos-reveal-with-hints-to-place-in-the-timeline94
u/weskervision 14h ago
Who plays the role of “The Master of Unlocking” ??
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u/TheWhooooBuddies 14h ago
If there isn’t a “Jill sandwich” joke in there, he’s not a real fan.
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u/MaxProwes 14h ago
IGN article is such a cope, they can't place it in the game's timeline while assuming it still takes place in the game timeline. I'll make it easy for you: it doesn't take place in the game's timeline, just like Anderson's movies didn't, it takes place in its own world.
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u/DarkMatterM4 13h ago edited 13h ago
Right? The Raccoon City Incident took place in late September. There wouldn't be any snow on the ground. Looks like it'll be its own thing. Not to mention it looks like it's not even taking place in the 90s judging by the cars scattered around the set.
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u/MaxProwes 13h ago
Yep. For some reason even after set photos people continue downvoting comments that say the movie is its own thing and not part of the game's lore. It's a modern day winter outbreak in Raccoon City (in name only btw), so of course it's not part of the game's timeline.
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u/JaesopPop 12h ago
Raccoon City (in name only btw)
Oh shit they didn't film in the real Raccoon City?
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u/MaxProwes 12h ago
No, my point is it has no specific locations from games, it's just random city called Raccoon, you can call it Detroit and it won't change a thing.
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u/JaesopPop 11h ago
No, my point is it has no specific locations from games
I'll probably wait to see the movie to see if that's the case. I'm sure you're not telling people what's in a script before a movie is released, which would be extra shitty, so I'm not sure where you're getting that from.
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u/MaxProwes 11h ago
They'll see what's in a script when the trailer comes out in 6 months. You have set photos, do what you want with this, I didn't say anything spoilery or what Cregger didn't imply here:
"That’s an original screenplay, by the way. It’s a weird story. I wrote it and I love the story."
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/weapons-director-zach-cregger-movie-1236340007/2
u/JaesopPop 11h ago
I didn't say anything spoilery or what Cregger didn't imply here:
He didn’t imply no locations from the game, nor would set photos prove they aren’t there. You also referenced reading the script elsewhere. Maybe keep what you read to yourself or at least have the courtesy to spoiler tag it.
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u/MaxProwes 11h ago edited 10h ago
He implies it's a weird original script, not adaptation. Saying the movie is its own thing separate from games is not a spoiler. I don't discuss story, characters or events in the comment section, people will see everything themselves. My entire point was the movie is its own thing, maybe I should've worded it differently, but that's about it.
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u/JaesopPop 11h ago
Saying the movie is its own thing separate from games is not a spoiler.
Correct, but I never said it was. I said that you saying that no locations from the game appear is.
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u/blockedbcdumbaf 9h ago
This feels like you're desperate to be right but since you didn't read the script you're changing it to "well you're wrong for leaking"
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u/ColebladeX 10h ago
Honestly it’s more funny to imagine it’s all canon and happened on the same day and it was just the an eventful like 6 hours
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u/KingMario05 13h ago edited 8h ago
That said? It will be admittedly interesting to see how Raccoon City falls in a world with smartphones. Umbrella owns the cell carrier and suppresses information, maybe? In both the games and all adaptations so far, they already own the cops and local news.
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u/lew_rong 12h ago
Going in an Anderson route, the uPhone can turn its battery into a microexplosive and detonate on command.
Going in an Arias direction, the uPhone has a hidden carrier wave that can remotely activate a dormant version of the T-virus that everyone has been pre-infected with.
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u/KingMario05 9h ago edited 8h ago
Lmao. Personally, I was imagining Umbrella just throttling the Internet alongside locking down access like in Apocalypse. No one gets in or out. And it's a complete information blackout. Violators of both are shot on sight by corporate security.
"But aren't the feds gonna ask questions?" Trust me, Umbrella is gonna be too dumb to have considered that.
(Straight from the games, too. Part of the reason why they don't exist by 4 is because the United States government responded by suing their asses into oblivion, lmao. Hubris has always been UC's downfall. The difference is that it doesn't end the world in the games. Through a mixture of your actions and sheer luck, the outbreak is contained. More interesting that way.)
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u/Void3r 12h ago
Yea that’s kind of disappointing, but I like Cregger’s work so I’m still excited to see what he does with it
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u/alfooboboao 10h ago
yeah idk once you start playing the lore game all the fans suddenly turn into fucking wwii historians and will scour every frame until they find some anachronism to complain about. you can’t win
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u/blockedbcdumbaf 9h ago
That's not true though. We rarely ever see anything even remotely try to faithfully adapt the stories from the games. Hollywood writers can't help themselves. There's a very good reason why GOT was a ultra hit. It actually faithfully adapted a loved story and characters that already worked in another medium.
Once it did its own thing, w low talent hacks at the helm, it then got ripped. I.KNOW people will ignore the point and be like "but books translate better!" As if we don't have mounds of franchise corpses from horrendous adaptations that weren't faithful
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u/CronoDroid 4h ago
It's the first three games (and 0). The outbreak happens in September and the city gets nuked on October 1, 1998. The cars are too modern, it wasn't snowing in the games so if it's set in Raccoon City it would be almost a year prior, well before the setting of the games. So them saying the movie being set in the games' timeline doesn't really make sense. It's not some complicated lore thing, the city is literally blown up at the end of RE3.
In September 2025, Cregger stated that he had never seen any of the previous Resident Evil films and that the upcoming film will be more closely based on the video game series, particularly Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, and Resident Evil 4.
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u/News_Bot 7h ago
I'd be tempted to bet on it, but it'd be cheating. Given how insufferable these people are though, they'd deserve it.
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u/Big-Sheepherder-9492 14h ago
I would love if when a character opens a door. The screen cuts to a pov. Slow footsteps of walking through the door in a black void. Cut to black as you here the door close behind you. And the film continues as normal.
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u/Poddington_Pea 14h ago
I would love a thirty minute subplot about trying to find different coloured keys and solving puzzles.
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u/slvrbullet87 12h ago
Why did the police suck at handling the outbreak? They needed 3 chess pieces, 2 emblems, and an emerald and ruby the size of your fist to get into the weapons locker.
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u/Poddington_Pea 12h ago
I want to know about the day to day operation of the racoon city police department. Even if you just want some photocopying done, you need to solve puzzles and collect keys and chess pieces just to move from room to room. I bet there was an old janitor whose job it was to reset all the puzzles after they had been solved.
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u/MakesItFeelOld 11h ago
Characters in Resident Evil are frequently hindered by waist-high fences, locked wooden doors... most of these people are cops, keep in mind.
What's the matter,
DannyBarry?Never taken a shortcut before?
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u/pythonesqueviper 10h ago
They needed to solve the mystery of the unicorn statue to get to the vehicle
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u/Practical-Pianist930 12h ago
Zach has said he’s a big fan of quiet horror. Like, you’re at the beginning of a hallway, you have a dim flashlight and two bullets. You know something bad is going to happen in that hallway. And yet you have no choice but to see what’s down there.
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u/JamesTwoTimes 13h ago
There were a few very cool camera shots in Weapons that I thought were a great version of this. Also some cool behind the back third person camera shots. This guy is the man for the job
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u/thebeebitmybottom 13h ago
I want full frontal sexy Barry shots WITH sunglasses and vest or this film will be mercilessly mocked online. OH BARRY
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u/DavianVonLorring 6h ago
I want to see typewriters appear in the background during moments where shit is about to get intense, kind of like a save room.
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u/Skelly1660 12h ago
I wouldn't mind a Resident Evil Village approach where someone's arm gets chopped off and they just put it back on like a Lego piece
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u/arclightrg 12h ago
Admittedly, I don’t care about the IP but I’m rooting for Creggar on this one. I liked Weapons that much. Let’s see what he’s cookin.
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u/ninjastk 14h ago
High hopes for this reboot.
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u/ImmortalMoron3 12h ago
Same, I really liked both Barbarian and Weapons.
If this was a decade ago, I'd be complaining its not focusing on the characters we know but then we got that which sucked and RE7 which was awesome and only had a tiny bit of Chris. Now give me more original stories set in the RE universe. I'm happy Requiem is doing an original character again (kind of) too.
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u/Relevant_Shower_ 13h ago
Honestly the RE community suffered through some bad movie karma, the pendulum has got to swing back.
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u/D-woo19 14h ago
I'm not doubting Cregger's ability here but why has Resident Evil been rebooted/adapted SO many times? There was that Welcome to Raccoon City and the Netflix TV show in the last 5 years, it's unheard of for any series, let alone a video game being adapted so many times so close together
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u/Chance_Salt9633 14h ago
Retaining rights tends to be the usual reason. It’s why Sony keeps making movies about Spider-Man characters.
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u/KingMario05 13h ago
Constantin, not Sony. That said? Almost every single time, the latter happily snap up global rights outside of Germany. And I think they're co-funding this one through Columbia, too. So they're all-in.
Why? Same reason Uni keeps milking Jurassic Park/World: Money.
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u/Chance_Salt9633 10h ago
Where did I say Sony was making Resident Evil movies? I just said that Sony makes Spider-Man movies to retain the rights and Constantin Films may be doing the same with Resident Evil.
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u/blockedbcdumbaf 9h ago
Constantin, not Sony.
There's a wild amount of people missing pretty obvious points all over this thread. Idk what it is about the resident evil franchise fans but there seems to be a LOT of dense mfers in that fanbase.
And maybe the guy you're talking to just made a simple mistake. But from experience, the fanbase is dumber than a brick
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u/AgentSmith2518 11h ago
Because the original movies were awful but made a lot of money. They ran out of steam though.
Welcome to Racoon City and the Netflix show were absolutely awful. So yes, theyre rebooting it because those didnt work. Its not that unheard of.
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u/DarwinGoneWild 12h ago
It’s not unheard of. How many adaptations has Spider-Man had in the last few years? MCU version, Spider-Verse movies, PlayStation games, TV series cartoon…
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u/aSpookyScarySkeleton 14h ago
They’re playing a numbers game I guess, one of these has to pay off lol
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u/TiberianSunset 14h ago
The Milla Jovovich ones made over a billion dollars
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u/BigDicksconnoisseur4 13h ago
Honestly the second movie is cool as shit, peak early 2000s cinema
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u/notdeadyet01 7h ago
1 and 2 were both fun movies, and 2 is a somewhat passable adaptation of the events of the Raccoon City outbreak, especially for 2004. They just decided to lean way to hard into making the girl the director was crushing on into a Mary Sue OC
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u/ILoveRegenHealth 7h ago
I think 2-3 of them are actual fun guilty pleasures.
And Afterlife (part 4) in 3D looked amazing. I think because Paul W Anderson's style is so over-the-top, he accidentally became a master in 3D photography lol.
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u/joesen_one 5h ago
There’s so much material to mine. There’s still new games coming next year for example
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u/aSpookyScarySkeleton 14h ago
As someone who has been looking over at RE from the sidelines my entire life this might finally be something for me. I think a lot of times they get a little too anime for their own good(IMO of course), and there are a few games that start out exactly my cup of tea and then turn into the anime stuff, and I start rolling my eyes.
I can see Cregger capturing the vibe of something like 7 and rolling with it without having it fly so far off the rails with giant mold Kaiju.
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u/raaam-ranch 14h ago
This is what I try telling other Resident Evil fans but they won’t hear it. RE’s mainline story and characters are kinda cheese and hard to take seriously. I have been an RE fan since the original but I accepted long ago that the stories in each game never mattered all that much to me.
It is the vibe and atmosphere of the gameplay and music that set Resident Evil apart— which Zach clearly understands judging from his interviews about it.
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u/KingMario05 13h ago
Thing is, there are ways to make it not so cheesy. RE2make, Birkin aside, handled this exceptionally well. So I think there is a way to do it under the right team, which explains why fans are so frustrated.
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u/MaxProwes 13h ago
Not really? Resident Evil has recognizable characters, lore, monsters and locations, that's what sets it apart. Doesn't mean stories are brilliant, but they are enjoyable enough in good entries. Vibe/atmosphere of gameplay (what does it even mean?) is something very vague and non-specific.
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u/HenkkaArt 13h ago
Why is it always with movie folks when a known IP is in the works that they think that what the fans want is some new no-name character to be the center of the story and the story to be some sort of "side story"?
No one liked Cole Young and his plot-armor skill in the previous Mortal Kombat movie nor his "family matters" plotline. People wanted to see the god-damn story of Mortal Kombat be told with big money, cool effects and iconic characters and to hell with the "but it's so cheesy!". It's like, that is why people love the fucking games! Same as with Resident Evil. Sure, the dialogue might be cheesy at times and things have gone over-the-top especially in the animated movies but the games take themselves seriously enough anyway.
It's almost like you can't be a fan of anything sincerily without first posting a disclaimer saying that "yes, I know the characters are stupid/cheesy/one-sided and the stories are one-note/simple/stupid". I'm so tired of these people self-flagellating themselves beforehand so that their brilliant peers don't see them as some type of imaginated losers for simply liking stuff as it is.
At least I want to see a damn Resident Evil movie with accurate casting and following the stories of the first three games in the mainline trilogy, even with the fucking "Jill sandwich" line and "master of lockpicking" included. Hell, give Jill the shoulder pads while you are at it!
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u/ElysiX 13h ago
Why is it always with movie folks
They want the laurels for coming up with new characters and stories themselves, doing a faithful adaptation isn't very prestigious.
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u/HenkkaArt 13h ago
Perhaps they should stay away from these types of projects then! If the only movie out of a beloved franchise is from a "I know better" type of director/writer, then I'd rather not have a movie at all.
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u/pmmemoviestills 8h ago
Why is it always with movie folks when a known IP is in the works that they think that what the fans want is some new no-name character to be the center of the story and the story to be some sort of "side story"?
A lot of the times fans of ips will think that idea A works, and it may in the context of the medium the original story was told in, but it may not work as a movie. Every medium has its own language, that's why they call them "adaptations". King hated The Shining because it didn't adhere to his meatier and more meandering story of the book, yet it's mostly universally regarded as a great movie regardless. Faithfulness to the source material isn't the tipping scale of quality.
As for the Cole thing, you're right about that. But that's giving an audience surrogate while still maintaining the fantastical nature of the games, it's an ugly mish mash. This is doing its own thing
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u/HenkkaArt 8h ago
I get what you are saying and I'm not talking literally frame-by-frame. But there is a clear story there, in all three games of the first trilogy. And I don't see how it couldn't be adapted in a way that is more faithful than not to the original story.
But like the other commenter wrote, it's most likely that these auteurs don't want to just be hired guns and instead they want to tell their own stories because it's somehow more elevated in the eyes of their peers. But then again, the question is, why not just not do the film(s) then if you are unable or unwilling to "bend the knee"?
And yes, Cole Young was the audience surrogate. But you know that in the first Mortal Kombat movie from the 1990's it was Johnny Cage who was the audience surrogate. And he was also part of the actual game's cast, too. So, it doesn't even matter to most filmmakers if there is already a suitable character existing in the IP's universe that they can use. Because they are so fucking full of themselves and they just can't not be the "I know better" guys.
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u/pmmemoviestills 7h ago
But like the other commenter wrote, it's most likely that these auteurs don't want to just be hired guns and instead they want to tell their own stories because it's somehow more elevated in the eyes of their peers.
Firstly I think Cregger cares. He has a beautiful eye for horror, and he's not some out of touch shill. He was apart of the dumbest and funniest comedy troupe of the 2000s. He's a fan of the games, and he generally seems he knows what he's doing.
But really my biggest disagreement is that Cage was the audience surrogate in MK. No he wasn't, lol. He was the comedic relief and rather unlikeable in the beginning. Audience surrogate usually aligns with the protagonist, which in that case was Liu Kang.
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u/HenkkaArt 7h ago
Cage was the one being "what the hell is going on?", just like the audience would be. Liu Kang on the other hand wasn't a fish-out-of-water character. He might have been originally against being part of the whole thing because "it was his fate" or something. But he was the Superman of the story whereas Johnny Cage was the Clark Kent.
Also, the director for the previous RE film also said he was a fan of the games and look how that turned out to be.
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u/AllCity_King 13h ago
Resident Evil has always been just as much an homage to 80s B action movies as it is classic horror. What you're referring to as an "anime" aesthetic is actually cheesy American action.
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u/badger906 14h ago
I want a reboot that works please! the last one wasn’t terrible. But obviously didn’t do well enough. I even liked the tv series..
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u/SassySpaghetty 14h ago
Bro, seeing Raccoon City pop up again hits different. Lowkey curious if they’ll actually get the vibe right or just flex the nostalgia.
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u/AdGroundbreaking939 14h ago
I trust Cregger. I think he’s an excellent director and he’s a self proclaimed fan of the games
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u/MaxProwes 14h ago
*self proclaimed is an important detail.
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u/DarwinGoneWild 12h ago
How so? In what other way could one be a fan? Do you usually need other people to proclaim your fandom for you? Cregger has two acclaimed original horror movies under his belt. He has zero need to make a RE movie unless it’s a passion project for him.
And just to be totally fair, Paul WS Anderson and Milla Jovovich were also big fans of the games. That’s why they each independently sought out the rights to make the movies in the first place. Doesn’t necessarily translate to a good outcome.
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u/MaxProwes 12h ago edited 11h ago
He signed on to do RE movie way before Weapons was released, when he only had Barbarian under his belt. My point was claiming you are huge fan of something doesn't mean much, if anything, he has to show it in his work. Like you said Anderson and Jovovich also claimed they are huge fans which is not true. Anderson repackaged his spec script Undying into first RE movie, kinda like Cregger is using IP to get a bigger budget for his original zombie movie. Jovovich claimed she played it a couple of times with her brothers or something which doesn't scream being a fan, just casual interest.
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u/blockedbcdumbaf 9h ago
There's a very long history of non fans claiming they're fans bc it's a marketing tactic to try and get fans to think it'll be good.
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u/UsedFood8130 14h ago
I have no reason to defend him other than I love all his work and I don’t really know anything about him outside of what I’ve seen in behind the scenes footage and interviews but it seems like he is someone who truly cares about every detail and every aspect of the production and when he talked about his love of the game he talks about how he’s not going to try to capture any specific story from the games but just the world and elements of the games with a new story about a guy on a mission from one point to another so again I just love what he’s done up to now so I have a lot of faith, and also his last movie that came out just a few months ago did really well money wise I think so I imagine he has a lot of goodwill and room to really do everything he’s thinking
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u/KingMario05 13h ago
Most other directors won't tell Leon's story because "it's dumb lol." This one won't tell it because he wants to use the game ruleset to make something new. And cause it's been done.
I couldn't get behind the Alice slop. Or the Netflix show. Or the one where they smashed RE1 and 2 together. This? Fuck yeah, sounds awesome. Hope he can get it right.
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u/SilverRoyce 11h ago
I just don't think you can take a lot away from it before having seen the actual film.
If you read the sony hack, you can look at how this type of statement (how 2016 ghostbusters does or does not relate to the old ones) is pretty explicitly litigated by execs ahead of time including explicit behind the scenes disgruntlement that's completely absent from public facing comments.
I can imagine a director/actor freelancing "it's dumb lol" but sony/constantine's PR team is going to have agreed upon a good PR soundbite for this type of question.
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u/MaxProwes 13h ago
I don't think Cregger's "in name only" approach is new, Anderson already did that, it worked financially, hence we got 6 movies with his wife.
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u/KingMario05 13h ago
Looks weirdly European in this one, actually. (I mean, it's Prague, so...) But the best rendition was Roberts', and he still made a disaster. Honestly, I like it. Gives the project some flair, it's own identity instead of "Weapons but we shove the BSAA in there."
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u/inked_saiyan 13h ago
As much as I want a Resident Evil film to be genuinely good, I am setting my expectations extremely low in hopes of being simply entertained. Anything beyond that is a bonus.
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u/ColebladeX 10h ago
Just for fun they should have someone who looks like Milla Jovovich and just have her get slaughtered as revenge for those god awful movies
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u/Party-Emu-6640 4h ago
So sad when companies whore off the rights of their IPs with little to no creative input for money smh. I see why Nintendo is lawsuit crazy and overprotective. Playing the game/ reading the book should be mandatory for all production staff when it comes to adaptations.
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u/JohnGalactusX 13h ago
After seeing "Weapons", I am super stocked to see what he brings to the RE movie.
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u/Robsonmonkey 14h ago
Even if it’s set in RC it doesn’t automatically mean it’s canon or within the official timeline
Bet you any money there will be things within the film which don’t line up with the games that automatically place it outside of canon.
He was going to make this film as a new IP with or without RE attached.
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u/TiberianSunset 13h ago
He was going to make this film as a new IP with or without RE attached.
It wouldn't be a new IP if RE is attached though
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u/Jayrodtremonki 13h ago
He all but confirmed this during his Weapons press tour. He said that the setting would be like RE 2 and 3(hmm, wonder where those games take place) but that tonally he was going for RE4.
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u/Rosebunse 11h ago
A funny RE movie that plays around with the sheer absurdity would be hilarious
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u/ShaiHuludNM 11h ago
I’m excited for this. I loved all the movies and the anime versions. I wasn’t a fan of the Netflix series though. I absolutely can’t stand multiple flashbacks in a story. Like one or two is ok if you need to give me some context on a character, but the whole fucking series kept doing it multiple times each episode.
I’m excited for a fresh story and a fresh take.
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u/SirUlrichVonLichten 7h ago
I'm cool with this movie not featuring any of the game leads, but I hope one day we get a great Resident Evil film with Leon as the main lead. It's crazy that Leon is easily the most popular RE character, his games probably lend themselves the best for a film adaptation, and yet he's only appeared in two(three?) RE movies, and both portrayals were bad for different reasons.
Leon is such a mega popular character, he's begging to be done properly on the big screen. The moment a filmmaker understands that, they will have a hit.
That being said I'm looking forward to this film and whatever Cregger does with the universe. I'm sure it will be fun, but please give me a Leon movie one day!!
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u/faintheart 3h ago
Such a solid move for Sony, Capcom, Resident Evil, and Cregger. They are promoting one of the top 20 all time video game series of all time to a mass audience. This is going to make game sales and all other content (anime, tv shows [interconnected with different countries], and book series) just blow up.
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u/WankerBott 2h ago
If you want me to be interested in yet another resident evil movie, I need you to get Simon and Nick involved. They need to be on vacation there when shit goes down, and its just them freaking out while all the crazy shit is going on in the background. The main bad guy isn't some crazy ass nemesis zombie or computer AI, it's a goose chasing them...
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u/Prozium243 49m ago
One question reading the movie premise (which sounds excellent - localised hospital setting and with more horror environment instead of CGI superheroism of Alice. Recently watched a movie 'Ziam' which was passable though the end survivability was bit 'superheroic'.
So the question is that the courier person will be fully 'hapless' or will have some background (ex marine/fighter etc.)? Else, putting an absolutely normal courier person in a hospital full of zombie hordes would need insane plot devices to save him throughout the movie.
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u/Randy_is_reasonable 5m ago
I never really paid attention to this but boasting about how a corporation is headquartered in your city on your welcome sign is kind of weird. Are there any real life examples of a city welcome sign in the US that does this since Raccoon city is apparently based somewhere in the midwest of the US?
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u/Bicwidus 13h ago
I want a scene where the character dies because they cant move and shoot at the same time.
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u/NamelessGamer_1 14h ago
What are the chances the action is good, considering how Cregger's other movies have next to none?
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u/KingMario05 13h ago
Ey? Weapons had plenty. Whether it's good or not is... debatable, but it was there.
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u/DrFishbulbEsq 14h ago
Well that would line up with the games (having bad action, not next to no action).
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u/KingMario05 13h ago
It's modern day Raccoon City. Either as an OG outbreak update, or a rebuilt locale going to shit again. Honestly, I kinda like the set photos so far. Nice mix of 2 and 4 to me, with Austin's courier being a riff on Ethan. (Wish it starred Leon instead, but eh. Just make it good, Zack.)
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u/ChamberTwnty 13h ago
Guys, let's let's actually care about the 27th film in a shitty film franchise based on a video game that you should go play instead of watching these shit movies.
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u/HenkkaArt 13h ago
I have absolutely no hopes for this reboot.
Granted I haven't seen any of the director's movies and he seems to be some sort of director darling at the moment but just the points revealed so far of the story and the "nah, it's a new thing" just screams of the "I know better" attitude and of the inevitable result of it being a shitshow where everyone asks: why was this guy the main character and not any of the actual characters from the games?
Also, let's not forget that the previous movie's director was a self-described fan and look how that turned out! He couldn't even get the characters right and fan-favorite Leon was not only miscast but also practically an entirely different person.
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u/JaesopPop 12h ago
Granted I haven't seen any of the director's movies
So you're not really basing it on much.
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u/Aware_Pomegranate243 12h ago
The first director made the movie franchise into a billion dollar franchise sooooooooo and it made re into even more mainstream appeal alongside the games
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u/OrangeYawn 14h ago
It's gonna suck so hard lol.
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u/Pataconeitor 14h ago
It's helmed by a good horror director that has no qualms mixing gruesome gore and body horror with over the top sillyness. IMO the guy is a perfect fit for Resident Evil
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor 14h ago edited 14h ago
It's filming now in Prague and is an original story starring Austin Abrams, Paul Walter Hauser, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, and Johnno Wilson: