The Next Resident Evil Movie Looks A Bit Different

Resident Evil has had over 20 years of movie adaptions, which run the range from completely inaccurate (Paul W. S. Anderson’s bazillion slow-mo wife fanfics) to aggressively accurate (2021’s Welcome To Raccoon City, a straight adaption of games 1 and 2). What’s left is to just do something completely different. And that’s what you get from this first teaser trailer for the next adaption, which looks like it could be for any other horror movie until we get to Raccoon City itself.

If anyone else were at the wheel, we’d be worried. But this is director Zach Gregger, who just wowed everyone with Weapons last year….AND he knows what Resident Evil is. He not only knows what it is, he’s a huge fan who’s played all the games and desires to make a good piece of entertainment out of it. So here’s what he’s come up with…

Bryan is an unassuming delivery man — a medical courier with an important package. Unfortunately it needs to be delivered to Raccoon City, post-plague. Bryan has no idea what just happened there, and as he bounces from house to house being chased by…WHATEVER is after him, he’s understandably freaked out. It’s another RE movie with a protagonist who isn’t a game character, but unlike Alice, you should be able to relate a lot more to Bryan…and, the theory is, get more spooked.

If the new Resident Evil movie works, it would make 2026 a banner year for the franchise, having just released one of their most critically acclaimed games ever with Resident Evil Requiem. This latest incident plays out in theaters September 18.