'I Would Urge People Not to Get Riled Up About Canon and Just Enjoy the Ride' — Resident Evil Loremaster Calls for Calm Amid Movie Complaints

After last week's Resident Evil movie trailer sparked complaints that it didn't look enough like Resident Evil, the series' unofficial loremaster has said that fans should just accept the film for what it is — and enjoy the ride. The internet's reaction to Zach Cregger's Resident Evil movie trailer was decidedly mixed, with many suggesting the film looked like a generic horror movie, rather than a specific Resident Evil adaptation. "This looks more like a 28 Days Later spinoff than anything Resident Evil," one fan claimed. While the trailer did include one hard-to-spot Resident Evil Easter egg, its focus on an original character and a creepy-looking new enemy left many fans cold — even if Cregger had spoken previously about wanting to create his own take on the franchise, with a deliberate focus on a new character so as to not simply retell a story fans were already familiar with. Now, Resident Evil loremaster TheBatman — who IGN has featured previously for his exhaustive chronicling of the franchise's story — has called for calm, and pointed out that the movie appears to be no less canon than any of the other Resident Evil film adaptations over the years, such as the long-running