Resident Evil Trailer Reveals First Look at Director Zach Cregger's Video Game Movie Reboot

Sony released the archetypal trailer online contiguous for the adjacent Resident Evil movie, which is directed by Zach Cregger (Weapons, Barbarian). You tin ticker the trailer via the subordinate embedded below.

Co-written by Cregger and Shay Hatten, Resident Evil stars Austin Abrams, Paul Walter Hauser, Zach Cherry, and Kali Reis. The caller trailer – which screened earlier this period astatine CinemaCon – lone features Abrams' quality Brian, however. Well, him and a grotesque quality helium encounters who looks a batch similar Dune villain Baron Harkonnen.

“I was a monolithic instrumentality of Austin aft moving connected Weapons, and I'm a bigger instrumentality of him aft making Resident Evil with him. He's truthful fascinating. He's the cleanable avatar for the viewer,” Cregger told IGN this week successful IGN’s exclusive Resident Evil trailer breakdown.

“What I wanted was to bash a Resident Evil movie wherever you're not pursuing a badass with subject training, you're pursuing your mean gamer similar me. If I was thrust into a Resident Evil game, I would beryllium terrified and I would beryllium missing 95% of the shots I took.”

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Cregger added, “I deliberation it's conscionable amusive to beryllium pursuing idiosyncratic with nary combat acquisition whatsoever arsenic they're walking done hellhole with a instrumentality gun. And Austin is conscionable this perfect, precise lovable, but by nary means badass guy. And his reactions to the horrors, I emotion it. I emotion it.”

And what astir that feline who looks similar Baron Harkonnen?

"I don't privation to accidental excessively overmuch astir what we tin expect from him due to the fact that it's a surprise, but I conscionable truly emotion the thought of you're moving done a sewer, you person nary thought what's successful beforehand of you and you travel astir a country and you spot a gigantic, obese, naked, hairless antheral conscionable sitting facing you. It's like, to me, it's conscionable like, what is astir to spell down? I similar the question there. And what does spell down, I americium besides beauteous blessed with.

Honestly, it's similar portion of the inspiration for the look of this feline comes from the [Cormac McCarthy] book, Blood Meridian. There's a quality called The Judge successful that publication who's described arsenic similar a seven-foot tall, possibly albino hairless man. And I emotion the representation of that guy. And truthful this is conscionable my small motion to 1 of my favourite books of each time. And it's also, it's similar I don't person a nemesis successful this movie that the games use, which is similar this gigantic hulking Terminator that's pursuing you. But this is besides similar a small spot of a motion to the Nemesis to a degree."

Constantin Film’s Robert Kulzer, Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, and PlayStation Productions produced Resident Evil, which Columbia Pictures volition merchandise successful theaters connected September 18, 2026.

For much coverage, you should cheque retired Simon Cardy’s sojourn to the acceptable of Resident Evil and observe Zach Cregger’s fearfulness of what Resident Evil lore fans volition “crucify” him for if helium gets wrong.

Jim Vejvoda (he/him) is IGN's Sr. Manager, Entertainment Content Partnerships.