Weapons director's new Resident Evil movie gets first trailer — and it already looks perfect

Zach Cregger's take on Capcom's survival horror franchise looks wildly different 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." The film showcases some of the stranger, more monstrous creations coming to Cregger's movie, which appear to go way beyond your typical Resident Evil zombie. "[T]he journey you'll have as a viewer of watching this movie is going to be similar to the journey you have as a player when you play these games," Cregger said in an interview last year.