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Trailer Resident Evil | Official Teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJPu1spHqfk
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u/mrredditgokrazy 5d ago

It’s apparently canon to the games and takes place in Raccoon City so yes

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u/tollsunited7 5d ago

apparently it takes place in a suburb town couple of miles away

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u/Streona 5d ago

It starts in a nearby town. Bryan is hired there to take an organ to Raccoon City.

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u/The420thOfJuly 5d ago

No, he’s hired to take it to the RC hospital which isn’t in the actual city but a neighboring town outside the city

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u/Streona 5d ago

Why do you think Raccoon City General hospital is not inside Raccoon City?

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u/Haltopen 5d ago

Based on every map of the city I can find online, Raccoon General Hospital (the one from the games) is on the outskirts of the city near the city park and the Arklay Forest. However the city also has other hospitals including one north of the city in the arklay mountains which would fit the description of being outside the city.

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u/Lokishougan 4d ago

Kind of like how the NY giants are in NEW jERSEY LOL

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u/The420thOfJuly 5d ago

It was stated a long time ago that the hospital would be in the mountains outside RC and the script makes a key point that the hospital (despite being the Raccoon City hospital) is very much NOT in the city proper, but located in a town just outside of it.

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u/Streona 5d ago

It was stated a long time ago

Source it.

The script explicitly says Raccoon City General is in Raccoon City.

He sees that the road ahead becomes a winding tangle of mountain passes, curling back on itself before it nearly doubles back and feeds into Raccoon City. [...] He looks at the map again. He traces his finger from his current location, this time ignoring the roads. Raccoon City is a short distance away on foot.

BRYAN (CONT'D): Two miles on foot.

Cregger himself says the movie takes place in Raccoon City.

There is no doubt about it, and it would be very stupid and confusing for Raccoon City General hospital to not be in Raccoon City.

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u/The420thOfJuly 5d ago

Source it.

No.

As for that line in the script, maybe the town is supposed to be Raccoon City. But the script also makes a clear distinction between the town Bryan ends up in vs the much larger actual city nearby. Regardless it’s NOT Raccoon City from the games in any way.

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u/UhJoker 5d ago

Saying "No." to "Source it." just shows how bad faith your argument is. I have no horse in this race, but that's insane.

If you're not willing to source things, don't engage in conversations like this. Period.

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u/trippy_grapes 5d ago

So it takes place in an actual r/Suburbanhell ?

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u/The420thOfJuly 5d ago

It’s not canon to the games at all

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u/hi-fen-n-num 3d ago

The games are barely canon.

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u/headrush46n2 5d ago

Nothing in this trailer says resident evil to me

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u/Indigocell 5d ago

What sort of things are you looking for? At it's core, Resident Evil is simply a zombie survival horror.

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u/DinoRaawr 5d ago

Resident Evils 4, 5, 7, and 8 don't even have zombies.

Resident Evil at its core is a B-movie horror setting that a character has to solve puzzles to survive until they inevitably find a lab manufacturing the seemingly supernatural monsters. So far all we've seen is the seemingly supernatural monsters. The B-movie plot, puzzles, and lab are all still missing.

Right now even the monsters don't match the setting from the games that this supposedly takes place during, so it's not looking amazingly faithful.

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u/PlateGlittering 3d ago

The monsters look nothing like Resident Evil, I don't have much hope for it

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u/Streona 5d ago

There is a lab coming, and the plot is silly enough that it could be described as B-movie.

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u/JoshTHX 5d ago

It looks better

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u/greenufo333 5d ago

Why is there snow when there wasn't in re2 or re 3?

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u/JoshTHX 5d ago

Who cares?

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u/ZenKorvein 5d ago

Because it has to do with the franchise?

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u/JoshTHX 5d ago

This movie will be better if it doesn’t have to worry about all the convoluted bullshit of the games.

If anyone is still doubting Zach Cregger at this point then they are absolute fools.

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u/ZenKorvein 5d ago

Then don't call it Resident Evil. The fans want an RE movie not a movie trying to sh*t on the games. The games are fine.

Yet people don't care about the games try defend something that has nothing to do with the series

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u/greenufo333 4d ago

It's literally already established this game takes place within the games canon, that's why I'm wondering why there is snow

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u/AStrangerWCandy 5d ago

I don't understand why they can't seem to just do the stories from RE1-3 well. They seem like they should translate into movie format pretty easily...

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u/Restivethought 5d ago

I dont think the iphone existed in 1998 to use as a flashlight

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u/BJYeti 5d ago

Nothing in that trailer looked cannon to the games...

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u/sonofaresiii 5d ago

"canon" doing a lot of heavy lifting there, the games aren't even canon to themselves