News Resident Evil Resident Evil Teaser Trailer “Kind Of” Takes Place in Resident Evil 2‘s World, Says Zach Cregger Trash Panda City is no place to be alone at night. Or ever By Molly Templeton | Published on April 30, 2026 Image: Sony Pictures Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Sony Pictures There are definitely better places to be a courier having some mysterious sort of trouble. The first teaser for the new Resident Evil movie—which comes to us courtesy of Weapons director Zach Cregger—isn’t very long, and it doesn’t say very much, but it doesn’t need to. A young fellow named Bryan (Austin Abrams) breaks into an empty house in search of help. Something has happened to him on the road, and things don’t exactly look good. We hear him leaving a message, but it becomes a bit difficult to pay attention to what he’s saying once the zombies—or, you know, just their limbs—start showing up. Speaking to the PlayStation Blog, Cregger’s enthusiasm for the Resident Evil game series is clear. As is his approach to this world and the way a person is forced to move through it. Cregger said that what he loved about the games is “this new mechanic of resource conservation. You had to be completely aware of how many bullets you had, and how many healing items you had. You’d make these tough decisions about – what am I going to carry with me? What am I going to leave behind? It was such a unique mechanic. 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. That was something that was really important to me to bring into the movie.” The trailer puts this mechanic front and center as Bryan digs through the empty house, looking for anything that’ll help him. Enter: a conveniently placed shotgun! Probably with very few shells. Cregger also said that the movie “kind of” takes place in the world of Resident Evil 2, though he notes he made “a couple of little shifts for dramatic license.” He describes the character of Bryan—notably the only human we see in this teaser—as “just a good-natured, hapless dude who gets sucked into a nightmare.” He is not Leon, the well-trained game character who knows how to handle himself. He’s clear about why this movie isn’t retelling the story of a specific Resident Evil game: “To me, I would feel like there’s kind of no winning there if I were to tell Leon’s story, because the games do such a great job. It would just be kind of redundant, and ultimately, I think, disappointing. So I would rather just kind of celebrate everything I love about the games by telling the story that could exist on the sidelines of one of the games.” Cregger’s Resident Evil—which the director co-wrote with Shay Hatten—is in theaters September 18.[end-mark] The post <i>Resident Evil</i> Teaser Trailer “Kind Of” Takes Place in <i>Resident Evil 2</i>‘s World, Says Zach Cregger appeared first on Reactor.