Resident Evil: the full picture

Director and writer Zach Cregger discusses what makes a Resident Evil story tick. Resident Evil has emerged this Saturday as one of the stories drawing attention in Taiwan.

Key facts

• Director and writer Zach Cregger discusses what makes a Resident Evil story tick.
• Zach Cregger: My earliest memory of Resident Evil had to be playing [Resident Evil] 2.
• So the world of [Resident Evil] 2 is kind of where this takes place, even though I’d make a couple of little shifts for dramatic license.
• But we’ve had newer characters like Ethan Winters (Resident Evil 7 and Village) and Grace (Resident Evil Requiem) in the games that are sort of dropped in this world and they don’t know what they’re doing.
• Even though, [Resident Evil] 2 famously, most of it takes place in one location, the police station.

What we know

Going deeper, Zach Cregger: My earliest memory of Resident Evil had to be playing [Resident Evil] 2.

On the substance, So the world of [Resident Evil] 2 is kind of where this takes place, even though I’d make a couple of little shifts for dramatic license.

Beyond the headlines, But we’ve had newer characters like Ethan Winters (Resident Evil 7 and Village) and Grace (Resident Evil Requiem) in the games that are sort of dropped in this world and they don’t know what they’re doing.

More precisely, Even though, [Resident Evil] 2 famously, most of it takes place in one location, the police station.

It is worth noting that Yeah, there’s a lot of easter eggs for the games, and that goes beyond things like the weapon progression and the resource management. [Resident Evil] 4 is probably the game I played the most, so I took a lot of healing items, I mimicked them exactly, I put them in the film.

By the numbers

At this stage, Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil movie hits theaters September 18.

On a related note, I think I played 2 before I played 1, and I don’t think I played anything like it, it’s the first survival horror game that I remember playing.

Going deeper, I wanted to keep true to like [in the games], you start with a pistol, you graduate to a shotgun, and then eventually you find an MP5.

On the substance, At the center of the 2026 zombie flick is Bryan, played by Austin Abrams, a medical courier whose routine job delivery becomes the entry point into a full-scale catastrophe.

The wider context

On a related note, the teaser trailer for Resident Evil has finally landed, and it immediately sets the tone for what looks like a brutal, fast-moving survival horror reboot.

Going deeper, a new teaser trailer has revealed the first terrifying look at Resident Evil, director and writer Zach Cregger’s ode to the beloved horror franchise.

On the substance, And it felt for me, with all the Resident Evil games, or with most of them, some of them get a little too arcade-y for my taste, but I really like the survival horror mechanics of moving slow and with deliberation.

Beyond the headlines, Now, I have to say I was playing it in VR, so I’m gonna put that out there, but it was in [Resident Evil] Village.

More precisely, So I wanted to tell a story that could take place in the Resident Evil world, but wasn’t telling a story that the games had already told.

The bottom line

• The teaser trailer for Resident Evil has finally landed, and it immediately sets the tone for what looks like a brutal, fast-moving survival horror reboot.
• A new teaser trailer has revealed the first terrifying look at Resident Evil, director and writer Zach Cregger’s ode to the beloved horror franchise.
• Well, the world of Resident Evil is that this T-virus that the Umbrella Corporation is responsible for has caused a terrible zombie mutant breakout.