Published Apr 30, 2026, 9:01 AM EDT

Zach Cregger's take on Capcom's survival horror franchise looks wildly different

Weapons director's new Resident Evil movie gets its first trailer

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The new Resident Evil movie from Weapons and Barbarian director Zach Cregger finally has its first trailer. The acclaimed horror movie director's take on Capcom's survival horror franchise is quite different from the previous seven live-action films and the short-lived Netflix TV series based on Resident Evil , Sony Pictures' first look reveals.

That's unsurprising: Cregger has long been vocal about not directly adapting the Resident Evil game stories , saying that his movie is an original story that "takes place in the world of the games."

As seen in Resident Evil 's first teaser, a medical courier named Bryan (Austin Abrams) "unwittingly finds himself in an action-packed, non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos."…