Resident Evil Movie Director Says Fans Would Be 'Bummed' If He 'Just Did the Story of the Games'

Resident Evil manager Zach Cregger has seen the calls for his movie to instrumentality person to the video games, but he's got a fewer bully reasons for wherefore he's choosing to archer his ain story.

The Weapons and Barbarian mastermind commented connected the "divided" effect to his archetypal Resident Evil movie teaser during a speech with Obsession manager and chap comedian-turned-horror filmmaker Curry Barker for Interview Magazine. He confirmed that, yes, helium has seen fans complaining astir the deficiency of acquainted elements successful his live-action mentation of Raccoon City, but he's assured that telling an archetypal communicative was the close choice.

"I consciousness large astir it," Cregger said erstwhile Barker asked for his feelings connected the Resident Evil movie. "I truly similar the movie a lot. It’s been a chaotic week since the teaser came retired to spot the divided absorption online. There’s truthful galore radical that intelligibly truly privation the video game, meaning the characters and communicative from the video game, and thing antithetic than that is truly not welcomed. I didn’t recognize however passionate immoderate radical were astir that."

For amended oregon worse, the archetypal Resident Evil movie teaser knocked gamers disconnected their feet erstwhile it showed glimpses of a caller quality moving done the zombie-infested streets of a strangely snowy Raccoon City precocious past month. There was nary Leon Kennedy, Nemesis, oregon Lickers to beryllium found, with the trailer alternatively revealing caller monstrosities and a fistful of subtle references to the Capcom games it's based on.

Many didn't request a trailer to spot Cregger with the Resident Evil sanction aft helium cemented himself arsenic a caller dependable successful the fearfulness abstraction with Barbarian successful 2022 and Weapons successful 2025, but others weren't truthful convinced. When the teaser showed a communicative that was a spot much archetypal than galore expected, immoderate of the much skeptical viewers took to societal media to stock their concerns.

Cregger has seen those concerns, but helium doesn't regret his determination to research a satellite plagued by the T-Virus from a caller perspective. In fact, not lone does helium deliberation helium wouldn't bask moving connected a movie that leans excessively hard connected pre-existing characters and stories, he's not definite adjacent immoderate of the harshest critics would bask it, either.

"But if I did that I don’t deliberation I’d beryllium creatively fulfilled, and I don’t adjacent deliberation they would bask it," Cregger continued. "If I conscionable did the communicative of the games, I deliberation the astir diehard fans would beryllium bummed. So I don’t cognize what to bash astir it."

Cregger's Resident Evil movie volition either neglect oregon win astatine gathering expectations erstwhile it creeps into theaters September 18, 2026. Until then, you tin work wherefore the series' unofficial loremaster is calling for fans to beryllium patient.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).