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Why Can't Hollywood Make Resident Evil Work?

2026-04-15 Entertainment
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It should be the easiest gaming franchise on the planet to adapt for the big screen, but everything from the Milla Jovovich movies to Welcome to Raccoon City to the abysmal Netflix show have tried and failed spectacularly. And now Zach Cregger is about to take a shot at it. Can he succeed where everyone else failed, or is he just another Hollywood creative trying to tell his own story that has nothing to do with the games?

Top Comments (10)

@andredevereaux9969 2026-04-15

Imagine if Peter Jackson said: I'm not gonna tell frodo's story because frodo's story is in the books. Fans already have that.

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@MadMikeee72 2026-04-15

Like so many other game based movies, they do not take the source material seriously enough. They treat it like a kids movie upscaled for adults.

4.1k 103 replies
@sgray001 2026-04-15

"I wanna tell my own story." Fine, then tell _your own_ story! Don't highjack someone else's.

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@defoley5 2026-04-15

“Too many stewards think they’re kings, and far too many self appointed kings are tyrants” —Rudyard Kipling

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@JoshWise1010 2026-04-15

Because they don’t want to make a Resident Evil movie. They want to make a relatively low budget zombie/horror movie attached to a popular IP.

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@SpooNFoy 2026-04-15

I literally forgot about the Netflix show. My brain blocked its existence that completely.

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@stavrospavlides2093 2026-04-15

"You know what's even scarier than zombies in an old mansion? Lasers!" Yeah it's an ego thing.

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@DradeGamer 2026-04-15

Hollywood were the real evil residents all along.

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@Baybates 2026-04-18

The fan made film of the detective looking into the murders happening in Arklay mountain is so far the best adaptation of Resident Evil in my opinion.

52 5 replies
@0ne0fmany 2026-04-18

When I was a kid my dream movie was Resident evil 2 beat by beat, with Leon played by Christian Slater.

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