Resident Evil Movie Trailer Included a Familiar Easter Egg You Probably Missed

The archetypal trailer for Zach Cregger's Resident Evil movie mightiness not person featured Leon S. Kennedy, but thing acquainted could inactive beryllium spotted — if you looked precise carefully.

In an exclusive trailer breakdown video for IGN, Cregger himself highlighted respective nods to the archetypal Resident Evil games included successful the sneak peek footage — astir notably, a cheekily-hidden greenish herb.

And for those reasoning this is conscionable a communal plot weed oregon cookware plant, nary — this is precise overmuch expected to beryllium the iconic greenish herb from the Resident Evil series, with Cregger noting helium had tried to replicate its circumstantial bucket from Resident Evil 4.

The Resident Evil movie trailer features a greenish herb, apical left.

"There's a plant, surface left, implicit his close shoulder, you tin benignant of spot it," Cregger told IGN. "In the movie the changeable pulls retired further and you tin spot it [better]. I took the greenish herb from Resident Evil 4 and I replicated the bucket exactly, you tin spot the bucket determination astatine the precise extremity of that changeable with the horizontal copper striping connected it and the herb is nonstop for Resident Evil 4.

"Even though this astir apt lives successful the satellite of [Resident Evil] 2," Cregger continued, "I conscionable wanted to usage a small spot of 4 successful present conscionable due to the fact that it's my favorite. And I person immoderate different items from 4 scattered astir successful this movie that radical volition notice."

While little specific, Cregger besides pointed to the shots successful the trailer wherever the film's main quality is seen scrabbling done drawers for ammunition. This, helium said, was besides a well-known Resident Evil trait.

"One of the things that's truthful integral to playing Resident Evil is you're perpetually searching for healing items and ammunition," Cregger notes. "That's what he's doing successful these scenes wherever he's going done the drawers. He's recovered a shotgun, he's got nary shells, truthful he's got to comb this location for these captious bits of ammunition. You can't truly bash a due emotion missive to the games without that."

Cregger besides said helium had structured his movie likewise to Resident Evil 4, which features respective chiseled locations and enactment sequences similar its brag combat connected a vessel and minecart thrust successful between, alternatively than focusing solely connected 1 creepy mansion.

"There's truthful overmuch to bash successful that game, and that's thing I truly dug astir 4," helium concluded. "You're not conscionable trapped successful 1 mansion and you person gotta unlock a country and spell here, you're truly moving done a world. And that's thing I took from that crippled successful particular."

Finally, Cregger said fans would recognize that the film's characters volition often go stuck down locked doors — with the request to past find a cardinal to proceed his progress. This is, of course, different Resident Evil staple.

As for erstwhile the movie is set, Cregger stated that it takes spot connected "Day 1, Raccoon City" astatine the opening of the outbreak, astatine the aforesaid clip that Leon was getting stuck into his archetypal time arsenic a constabulary officer. (This places the movie's events astatine the extremity of September 1998, adjacent though there's snowfall connected the crushed here, which doesn't truly gel with what players saw of the metropolis successful Resident Evil 2.)

Initial absorption to the trailer from immoderate fans yesterday featured notable disapproval that the movie looked little similar a Resident Evil adaptation, and much similar a 28 Days Later spinoff. Others, however, praised the information that Cregger was not rehashing a communicative that we've each seen antecedently — and arsenic precocious arsenic 2021's poorly-received Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City reboot.

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