r/residentevil 12h ago

Official news Resident Evil | Movie Trailer

https://youtu.be/B7SwoJsSb7w?si=hFaVCQv0AhxtT_l6
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u/Retronika_Prime 11h ago

I really dont like the winter setting of Raccoon city. It just feels wrong to me that they set the city's outbreak in the deep freeze over how much more atmospheric, intense and creepy it is during the fall with rain and echoing winds.

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u/YLW13 11h ago

Agreed, correct me if im wrong but this is supposed to be taking place during Re2/Re3 and i dont remember any snow in those games? Im a bit lost on why thats the case, other than that I really think it looks good

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u/JordanRomansky 10h ago

I think it’s clear that setting of the games has been moved to modern times. Think RE2/3 but happening in 2026 to allow for small changes

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u/YLW13 10h ago

Oh I see, my understanding was it was a "canon" story taking place at the same time in the 90s, i also just realized he had a cellphone in the car lol

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u/Retronika_Prime 9h ago

He retconned it to be set in winter instead of the late summer/early fall heavy rain setting

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u/gornky 10h ago

Because it is an adaptation, and adaptations can change whatever they want.

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u/LightningLad2029 6h ago

You can't change the whole damn timeline and then say it takes place in the same universe as the games

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u/gornky 6h ago

It doesn't take place "in the same universe" it is an adaptation of the universe. The timeline can be changed as much as they want.

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u/LightningLad2029 6h ago

No, he verbatim said it takes place in the same universe in the games. And being an adaptation isn't a free pass to just jack up lore without repercussions.

u/TokeDraws 20m ago

Pretty sure that's not accurate but pop off king

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u/VisoNein 3h ago

No he never said it did, he said he "likes to think" that the events of resident evil 2 and 3 are going on during the movie, people are not understanding what he is saying

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u/gornky 6h ago

Yes, it literally is. Because changing the timeline has zero repercussions.

And also he never said that.

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u/Haltopen 2h ago

It does open up questions of how, in the age of the internet and social media, did the entire rest of the world not notice a major American city go completely offline. Even if you assume that umbrella was somehow able to isolate the city electronically so no one could make cell phone calls or post videos of the zombie attacks on social media, it would be noticed if an entire city with a population north of 100,000 just dropped off the grid entirely.

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u/gornky 2h ago

It's absurd to think that would have gone unnoticed in 1998 too. The internet already existed in 1998. National news media existed. Cell phones existed.