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with cregger making a resident evil film I think it’s best we get ari aster to direct a silent hill adaptation.

Meanwhile, one YouTuber played an indie game, made a film adaptation along side with the game's creator. Expanded/fleshed out the game's lore in the film rather than making a "reinterpretation" or "put their own spin on it" or "rewrite it to attract non-gamers".

Just so we're clear, this is about a film that the director/writer said he would be make regardless of whether Resident Evil was attached or not, and the only reason there was bidding for a new film to be made at all is because the studio would lose the rights without one.

RE fans deserve the dozens of slop movies they got because this is their reaction to an actual first good movie in the universe of Resident Evil.

Two things can be true. - Zach Cregger’s film is going to be great and will potentially be viewed as the RE7 of the Resident Evil Movies. - Resident Evil fans also have every right to be frustrated because they want general audiences to experience the characters and the stories that turned them into fans in the first place.

The first trailer for Zach Cregger's ‘RESIDENT EVIL’ has been released. In theaters on September 18.

Zach Cregger on his 'Resident Evil' movie 🧟‍♂️ "I wanted this movie to tell the story of what would happen if some idiot like me were dropped into the world of a Resident Evil game. So Austin plays not some badass with combat experience like Leon but just an average dude. That makes his experience of moving through this hellscape way more interesting to me than somebody who’s psychologically equipped" "A pistol [is] the first weapon he acquires in the movie. Just like in the games, as he progresses through the world he’ll get better weapons. It’s such a fun moment when you’re playing RE and you finally get the shotgun or the machine gun and I wanted that sense of progression to be in the movie" "Resident Evil is of course a franchise that’s got a ton of zombies but it’s also got all sorts of weirder monstrosities. Really wanted to make sure that we never got a handle on what kind of dangers we’d find. It’s not just a zombie movie. The T-Virus can have a lot of different effects and I wanted to make sure we had a variety of adversaries" "The slow discovery of horrific elements is something I really love about Resident Evil. It’s not a run and gun action game. It’s about tension and atmosphere and so I really wanted to lean into that. As much as there’s plenty of action in the movie it’s equally important to honor the dread. That moment when you look down a dark passage and you know something awful is waiting in that darkness for you. You don’t want to go forwards but you can’t go back. That’s the sweet spot"