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[IbizaPocholo]

Resident Evil 4 Ai trailer - Live action concept - Jensen Ackles, Elle Fanning

 

[BacklashWave534]

"Faithful" to some weeb cringe plot. Zombies are eating people and a corporation is behind it. WOW.

So you don't like Resident Evil but you took time out of your day to make a stupid comment on an RE thread. Got it.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

I hope they'll make a bunch of hot bioweapons fighting each other.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

https://insider-gaming.com/resident-evil-movie-leak-reveals-link-to-games/

The latest Resident Evil movie leak, courtesy of Daniel RPK (via Comicbook.com), reveals the plot of the upcoming adaptation. The synopsis talks about Bryan, "a laid-back organ courier", who will reportedly be portrayed by The Walking Dead's Austin Abrams. Bryan has to go on a late-night delivery to Raccoon City General Hospital, and that's where the strangeness starts to unfold.

During the delivery, Bryan has to pass a snowy mountain road, where he accidentally hits a strange woman with his car. The woman survives somehow, but something seems "very wrong". Bryan tries to help the lady and ends up stumbling "into a full-blown outbreak involving horrifying tentacle-based mutations and bio-engineered monstrosities"

According to the leaked Resident Evil movie plot, the outbreak in Racoon City appears to be ongoing, and the bomb has yet to be dropped. It is speculated that the upcoming adaptation could be set around Resident Evil 2 and 3, as the outbreak was last seen in these games. However, as this is a leak, players should take this information with a grain of salt.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

At some point can we stop calling them reboots when they are all different movies none of which actually adapt game story material?

 

[Danjin44]

There is no good way to make a Resident Evil movie. The cheese just doesn't translate to the screen. Maybe people like video games for the gameplay or something.

This, Resident Evil story mostly fits on games and no where else.

 

[John Bilbo]

I mean they could do the movie in the style of the first game's opening cutscene.

 

[Breakfast at Noon]

Uhuh, i'll believe it when i see it.

 

[RagnarokIV]

Will it look as good as the Welcome To Raccoon City film or will it go back to shitty CGI?

 

[T8SC]

It still won't be as good as the original RE1 intro.



NOO! DON'T GO!

 

[Doom85]

This, Resident Evil story mostly fits on games and no where else.

I don't really see why it can't work on screen, especially since Mikami took influence from several horror films when making the original RE game.

 

[Arachnid]

I don't really see why it can't work on screen, especially since Mikami took influence from several horror films when making the original RE game.

Because the plot is paper thin roasted ass

Don't get me wrong. RE4 is my all time favorite game. Mikami wrote the story for it in three weeks. None of the RE games have good stories for film. They get by on characters, gameplay, and scares.

 

[Doom85]

Because the plot is paper thin roasted ass

Don't get me wrong. RE4 is my all time favorite game. Mikami wrote the story for it in three weeks. None of the RE games have good stories for film. They get by on characters, gameplay, and scares.

Nobody is expecting a deep plot from RE, and each game at least has a plot.

Honestly, RE should be one of the easiest video games to adapt. Just make a spooky movie with the fun characters from the game. The original movie to an extent (characters weren't that good, also lasers had the higher kill count than actual zombies, WTF) and Welcome to Raccoon City were the closest to get it, but the rest of the films made it a Mary Sue fest, dedicated to the director's girlfriend/eventual wife, filled with soulless action and little atmosphere.

It seems they're not learning their lesson though by forcing another film have an "original lead". I mean, this Bryan can't possibly suck more shit than Alice did, but they should just follow the games generally. I don't care about some rando off on a little side quest while Leon, Claire, and Jill were doing actual important shit.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Weapons director’s Resident Evil movie won’t have existing characters because fans ‘can play the games’ for their stories | VGC

“I’m not going to tell Leon’s story, because Leon’s story is told in the games…

www.videogameschronicle.com

In an interview with Inverse, Cregger has now explained that his film won't retell the stories from the games but will instead feature new characters and tell a new story in the same universe.

Cregger explained that because he's a big fan of the Resident Evil games, he doesn't feel there's any need to retell their stories because in his eyes they've already been told well enough.

"Let me say this – this is not breaking the rules of the games," Cregger said, insisting that the new movie will still respect Resident Evil lore. "I am the biggest worshipper of the games, so I'm telling a story that is a love letter to the games and follows the rules of the games.

"It is obedient to the lore of the games, it's just a different story. I'm not going to tell Leon's story, because Leon's story is told in the games. [Fans] already have that."

Cregger says that if any players were hoping to see characters like Leon, Jill, Chris or Claire appearing in his movie, "they can play the game" to see their stories.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Weapons director’s Resident Evil movie won’t have existing characters because fans ‘can play the games’ for their stories | VGC

“I’m not going to tell Leon’s story, because Leon’s story is told in the games…

www.videogameschronicle.com

I'm not too sure people will be interested in a "faithful" RE movie without any of the iconic characters. Like, even a secondary role for Leon or Jill would be enough.

 

[Seomel]

After seeing weapons and hearing that this will basically be stor yabout random guys worst day, im even more excited.

 

[Seomel]

yeah, get out of here

 

[Represent.]

Anyone doubting this film after seeing Weapons is just crazy. Let the man do his job. This is suddenly one of my most anticipated movies just off the strength of Weapons

 

[Cr1ptkeeper]

Barbarian was okay and Weapons was mediocre at best so I'm not that excited for a new RE movie from this director. I really hope it's gonna be good though.

 

[WoeIsMe]

It still won't be as good as the original RE1 intro.



NOO! DON'T GO!

 

[deeptech]

First time I'm interested in RE movie after long long long time.

 

[SamuraiEdge]

After seeing weapons and hearing that this will basically be stor yabout random guys worst day, im even more excited.

Really excited on this one too, I got a great feeling with this one.

 

[PlayStaytion]

Now, being a gamer means you're at an advantage. That wasn't the case 20 years ago.

 

[Chiggs]

More faithful to the games does not mean a better movie. The storyline in the series is just flat out terrible.

 

[Life Diff]

There is no good way to make a Resident Evil movie. The cheese just doesn't translate to the screen. Maybe people like video games for the gameplay or something.

I don't know, he got some goofy ass humour in weapons and it worked so I think he might nail the cheese

 

[coachmcguirk91]

Barbarian was okay and Weapons was mediocre at best so I'm not that excited for a new RE movie from this director. I really hope it's gonna be good though.

For me, Weapons was incredibly good. My favorite film I have seen this year. I really enjoy the dry humor in both of Cregger's films. It is such a fine line he walks between having a dramatic compelling story while mixing in moments of hilarious comedy. That should fit perfectly within the universe of RE

 

[tanners]

The original movies titles was bit of dumb, but dumb enough to reallly have fun 2 watch
good enough for rent a disc for a night and clear you mind for action scenes

 

[Madflavor]

I'm not too sure people will be interested in a "faithful" RE movie without any of the iconic characters. Like, even a secondary role for Leon or Jill would be enough.

I actually like it because it gives them more creative freedom to tell the story they want. If you have it be about Leon or Chris or whoever, you're then stuck in the position where you have to be faithful to the character and the story, and if you want to take creative liberties, you run the risk of upsetting fans. I think Welcome to Raccoon City was a good example of this, where they tried to have their cake and eat it too. They brough in all the iconic characters, but portrayed them compeltely wrong, in some cases to a hilarious degree (Leon). I'd be down with something like a RE: Outbreak approach. Tell a new story from the perspective of other survivors.

Also at this point I just want a good Resident Evil movie, don't care what it's about. After the Alice movies, WTRC, and whatever the fuck that Netflix show was, this series has sunk to Mariana Trench depths of bad outside of the games.

 

[adamsapple]

After Barbarian and Weapons, I have high confidence Cregger will deliver a good movie.

Will it be a quote unquote faithful movie to the games? I don't know and frankly it doesn't really matter much. Welcome to Raccoon City was trying to be faithful to the games and it was shit.

The RE movie-verse needs a good movie, one way or the other.

 

[simpatico]

I don't know, he got some goofy ass humour in weapons and it worked so I think he might nail the cheese

I don't think the American mind can do it. It'll come off Uwe Boll. The cheese isn't so much intentional as it's lost in translation and cultural approximation

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Just yesterday, rumors began to emerge regarding a tentative synopsis floating around for the upcoming Resident Evil film being helmed by Zach Cregger, the filmmaker who wrote/directed Barbarian and whose horror-thriler film Weapons recently bowed in theaters last week. During the press junket for the latter film, Cregger already confirmed that his cinematic take on the Capcom franchise will feature an entirely original narrative set within the continuity of the games as opposed to adapting a pre-existing story, and now film review and news site JoBlo has scooped a rough summary of this potential plot, coupled with a tweet from Daniel Richtman (DanielRPK on Twitter) who has shared a potential logline for the film as well. Grain of salt as always.

JoBlo reported that the screenplay, which Cregger co-wrote with John Wick Chapter 4 and Ballerina scribe Shay Hatten, centers on a downtrodden courier tasked with delivering a package to a remote hospital. While en route, he will supposedly be drawn into the middle of a viral outbreak and be forced to fight hordes of mutated creatures. Shortly thereafter, Richtman's alleged logline elaborated on this brief synopsis, claiming that this courier, who is expected to be played by Weapons' Austin Abrams, is named "Bryan"; he is coerced into discovering this outbreak by a "strange woman" he accidentally hits with his car while driving on a snowy mountain range. The creatures in question will supposedly comprise "tentacle-based mutations" and "bio-engineered monstrosities", which would be on brand for Umbrella Corp. shinanegans transpiring over the story.

Again obviously, none of this is confirmed and people who follow film scoops should know about DanielRPK's particularly spotty track record with regards to general entertainment and industry info, but the viral outbreak backdrop and the activity of experimented creatures does track aesthetically with the games, and despite everyman protagonists being more prevalent in a series like Silent Hill overall, a character like Ethan Winters in the last two entries is an example of the games already having a precedent for having a primary point-of-view from a character that is seemingly drawn into conflict with no real combat experience like Jill, Leon, Claire, Ada or Chris. Obviously at present, Cregger is remaining tight-lipped on the nature of whatever story he has planned, but he has expressed the film's influence from cult horror classics like Evil Dead II and his desire to make a more kinetic, journey-driven film than the more methodical pacing of either Barbarian or Weapons.

Resident Evil will be co-produced by Constantin Film and Sony Pictures through their PlayStation Productions label, and will be released theatrically on September 18, 2026.

 

[Ishma3L]

Cregger is a great director. The fact that a great director is tackling Resident Evil instead of pursuing another project after his recent successes is insane. If there is any chance of a video game movie transcending its origin and becoming something that completely stands on its own as a film, it's right here with this guy. Let him cook.

 

[SamuraiEdge]

Cregger is a great director. The fact that a great director is tackling Resident Evil instead of pursuing another project after his recent successes is insane. If there is any chance of a video game movie transcending its origin and becoming something that completely stands on its own as a film, it's right here with this guy. Let him cook.

After seeing Weapons I am even more excited with this. It's going to be special.