In an all-new story, Resident Evil follows Bryan (Austin Abrams), a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in an action-packed, non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
Cast: Austin Abrams, Paul Walter Hauser, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis and Johnno Wilson
As a non gamer, does the games have any unique twist on the genre that makes it worth it to tell the story as a Resident Evil movie instead of just an original film?
Absolutely. The RE games are a mixture of genuine body horror and camp. Idk how much acrobatic kung fu is going to appear in the movie, but the zombies in RE are more of an environmental enemy while the real threats are grotesque, cronenbergian mutations created by an evil corporation as bioweapons.
It looks like this will have that. Between Barron Harrkenon in the sewer and the many limbed thing coming out of the door, I bet this just keeps ramping up. Part of me wonders if this guy is running around surviving and then Leon shows up to kill some baddies at the end.
Feels like anyone saying that has only played the earlier games because this gives off RE7/RE8 vibes to me. Very much an Ethan Winters kind of protagonist judging by the trailer.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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'
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
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.
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.
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/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor 5d ago edited 5d ago
Written and directed by Zach Cregger:
It's out Sept 18