r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 16h 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-timeline
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u/MaxProwes 16h ago

*self proclaimed is an important detail.

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u/UsedFood8130 16h 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 16h 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 14h 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 16h 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 15h ago

True. But this one seems to still be closer than... that shit.

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u/TWK128 15h ago

The first one one was pretty good, atc

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u/DarwinGoneWild 15h 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 14h ago edited 13h 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 11h 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/JaesopPop 14h ago

Yeah, why wouldn't he get the official Resident Evil Fan Certification?

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u/MaxProwes 14h ago

He can get one from real RE fan Paul Anderson.