Current Events > Resident Evil reboot movie releases September 18th, 2026

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Entertainment news website Deadline reported on Friday that Sony will release Zach Cregger's (Barbarian, Weapons) new live-action reboot of CAPCOM's Resident Evil survival horror game franchise on September 18, 2026.

Four studios, including Warner Bros. and Netflix, were bidding for the film rights. Sony also released the previous movies in the franchise.

Constantin Film and PlayStation Productions will produce the new reboot film. Shay Hatten (John Wick: Chapter 4, Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead) will co-write the screenplay along with director and writer Cregger. Constantin's Robert Kulzer, Vertigo Entertainment's Roy Lee (Minecraft), Miri Yoon (Woman of the Hour), and PlayStation Productions are producing. Nicole Brown is overseeing the movie. Sources told The Hollywood Reporter Cregger's film will "take the title to its horror roots and be more faithful to the initial games."

This film will be the eighth live-action film in the franchise. The first six films in the franchise were released between 2002 and 2017, and all starred Milla Jovovich.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-03-07/sony-to-release-new-resident-evil-reboot-film-on-september-18-2026/.222095

It is amazing to me that they keep screwing this up. Resident Evil should be one of the easiest franchises to make a movie out of.

Im okay with this being rebooted. The Milla Jovovich ones were a guilty pleasure at their peak and terrible at their worst

If Zach Cregger is heading this, I am fully confident. Hes the perfect match for a remake of a goofy horror game like resident evil

just adapt the first game

have jill and chris as co leads

it is a basic and simple plot sure but if you can nail that

THEN you can go on to the bigger more action packed stories

AceMos posted...

just adapt the first game

There are ten minutes of plot in the first game and nine hours of shoving chess pieces in the mouth of stuffed birds.

Adapting just the first game is more difficult than people think.

pegusus123456 posted...

There are ten minutes of plot in the first game and nine hours of shoving chess pieces in the mouth of stuffed birds.

Adapting just the first game is more difficult than people think.

i did not say copy the first games plot i said adapt it

Didn't they already do a Resident Evil 'reboot' movie a couple years ago? It was ok too.

Pikachuchupika posted...

Didn't they already do a Resident Evil 'reboot' movie a couple years ago? It was ok too.

yes yes they did

there was also the netflix series

AceMos posted...

i did not say copy the first games plot i said adapt it

They did, and the fandom hated Welcome to Raccoon City

Link_of_time posted...

They did, and the fandom hated Welcome to Raccoon City

Yeah because they ruined the characters completely.

Link_of_time posted...

They did, and the fandom hated Welcome to Raccoon City

because they crammed 1 and 2 together

both can and should be separate films

I feel Cregger is an amazing fit for an adaptation of RE3. I would hope this goes over well enough for him to get to that eventually.

And we don't talk about that Resident Evil series.

thoe really the ideal solution is a mini series for each game

season 1 does the first game

and you can film season 2 at the same time that covers RE2

then do the same for 3 and code veronica (thoe realistically they would probably skip that)

the rotating cast of the early games would make it easy to film 2 seasons at the same time is what im getting at here

and im fine and would WANT changes as 1 for 1 adaptions are boring

for RE1 you can flesh out the doomed stars members rather than them just being dead right away they are alive at first and die threw out the season as an example

AceMos posted...

because they crammed 1 and 2 together

both can and should be separate films

yeah they tried to stuff way too many characters into one movie

AceMos posted...

thoe really the ideal solution is a mini series for each game

season 1 does the first game

and you can film season 2 at the same time that covers RE2

then do the same for 3 and code veronica (thoe realistically they would probably skip that)

If anything, I would film 2 and 3 at the same time. The games are supposed to take place at around the same time. 3 has that thing where Jill is knocked out for a day just as an excuse to explain why Claire and Leon never ran into her, because 3 didn't exist when they made 2. It would be neat if now that everything is known, there was SOME crossover between the two. To be clear I mean something like 1 episode where they team up, and the occasional one character seeing the result of another characters actions.

chris1001_the_sequel posted...

If anything, I would film 2 and 3 at the same time. The games are supposed to take place at around the same time. 3 has that thing where Jill is knocked out for a day just as an excuse to explain why Claire and Leon never ran into her, because 3 didn't exist when they made 2. It would be neat if now that everything is known, there was SOME crossover between the two. To be clear I mean something like 1 episode where they team up, and the occasional one character seeing the result of another characters actions.

that does make more sense yea

I need another RE reboot movie like I need another Spiderman origin story.

Just cover RE4 lol

This scene alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM4bruKPVd0

I still can't believe they tried to adapt RE1 and 2 in the same movie.

No Rebecca, no care.

Strider102 posted...

Yeah because they ruined the characters completely.

Really dont understand how they could fuck up Leon that badly, but they did.

Welcome to Raccoon City isn't nearly as bad as people claim, we all know one of the main complaints is because Leon and Jill weren't white.

I didn't mind the casting and the story was miles better than the previous live action ones that never followed any of the games and the main character was a original character made specifically for the movies which is dumb.

Mr_Karate_II posted...

Welcome to Raccoon City isn't nearly as bad as people claim, we all know one of the main complaints is because Leon and Jill weren't white.

I didn't mind the casting and the story was miles better than the previous live action ones that never followed any of the games and the main character was a original character made specifically for the movies which is dumb.

Thing is, the Alice movies never claimed they were faithful to the games, so as awful as they were I'll give them some respect because they didn't outright lie to people.

WtRC on the other hand promised to be faithful and wasn't.

This reboot better follow the story of whichever game they're adapting, don't deviate from the plot of the game at all.

Just once give us a movie that's based on a game that doesn't deviate from the plot of the game your adapting.

While the OG Mortal Kombat is great, it didn't necessarily follow the plot of the original game. But it's to date the best video game adaption.

Strider102 posted...

Thing is, the Alice movies never claimed they were faithful to the games, so as awful as they were I'll give them some respect because they didn't outright lie to people.

WtRC on the other hand promised to be faithful and wasn't.

Welcome to Raccon City was mostly faithful outside some areas.

The Alice movies may not have claimed to be faithful but they didn't clarify either.

they could do something funny if they pushed the release up by seven days

Mr_Karate_II posted...

Just once give us a movie that's based on a game that doesn't deviate from the plot of the game your adapting.

we have had multiple adaptions of games that are good

Mr_Karate_II posted...

Welcome to Raccoon City isn't nearly as bad as people claim, we all know one of the main complaints is because Leon and Jill weren't white.

I didn't mind the casting and the story was miles better than the previous live action ones that never followed any of the games and the main character was a original character made specifically for the movies which is dumb.

I watched it a couple years ago and it was just dogshit. The plot was terrible, the acting was horrible, the characters were bad. It was a mess

How about no adaptions of any of the games, and keep the recognizable characters from past games too a minimal. Something like Resident Evil 7.

I'd rather a new Resident Evil movie just be a separate story, and the writers have to use what they know of the game series to come up with their own original movie, that feels like it fits right in with the Resident Evil universe. And I much prefer it, rather than trying to adapt the game's storyline, which aren't really that great of horror storytelling on their own.

AceMos posted...

we have had multiple adaptions of games that are good

i guess fallout and last of us TV shows would be considered "multiple"

but i don't think 2 being good out of the 100 that aren't is that good of a metric

AceMos posted...

because they crammed 1 and 2 together

both can and should be separate films

I refused to watch it cause they fused Carlos and Leon together. While I do like character fusing sometimes, they are just so completely different characters. Heard some other stuff was wrong with and I completely forgot about it.

Anyways, I think they should do a show based on the arklay mansion. Then have the movie be about the game. Having g the people that you met and got to know during the show, pop up as zombies or be dead in the background. Have the characters read notes and stuff, then have it signed by a character from the show. Would really add to the movie I think. However they would do part 1.

A good adaptation of RE1 would be welcome but I don't think a RE movie has to adapt one of the games. It could do something like the animated RE movies do where it's an original story about the characters from the games taking place somewhere else in the RE timeline.

I even think a story with an OC as the main character can work if it's written well and doesn't do the thing the Alice movies did where they brought in game characters only to make them mostly useless side characters who die or if they do survive it's only because Alice is there to save them.

Wow Cregger is actually the perfect director for this.

On one hand I say keep trying until they succeed. On the only hand after so many failures I think they might as well give up.

Resident evil shouldn't be that hard to adapt.

AceMos posted...

we have had multiple adaptions of games that are good

Name one that doesn't deviate from the plot of the game at all.

UnsteadyOwl posted...

A good adaptation of RE1 would be welcome but I don't

I even think a story with an OC as the main character can work if it's written well and doesn't do the thing the Alice movies did where they brought in game characters only to make them mostly useless side characters who die or if they do survive it's only because Alice is there to save them.

No, just no.

I think the problem with RE as a film series is that the games are already a bunch of horror movie cliches and tropes that have been done a million times before.

If RE wasn't, you know, a video game series, they'd just be another one of these that no one would pay attention to.

Mr_Karate_II posted...

Name one that doesn't deviate from the plot of the game at all.

The Last of Us

I'm still surprised that one of the Whitest Kids U Know is a renowed horror director.

Mr_Karate_II posted...

Name one that doesn't deviate from the plot of the game at all.

That's a pretty narrow ask... But I'd still say the OG Mortal Kombat is probably the most faithful video game adaptation of all time.

Phoro posted...

That's a pretty narrow ask... But I'd still say the OG Mortal Kombat is probably the most faithful video game adaptation of all time.

Kind of. A lot of the lore in MK was created for that movie which they retroactively put back into the games.

Phoro posted...

That's a pretty narrow ask... But I'd still say the OG Mortal Kombat is probably the most faithful video game adaptation of all time.

did the first couple games actually have a story?

thronedfire2 posted...

did the first couple games actually have a story?

Exactly lol
It was all really basic stuff (at the time), but Anderson pretty much nailed the overall Tournament rules/lore and the backstories of the Kombatants. What more do you want? besides gore and fatalities I mean

thronedfire2 posted...

did the first couple games actually have a story?

Technically yes. They developed more story as they built the games, but even the first game had background stories for the characters. By the third game, they already had a much larger story. The movie followed the first games story overall, but did change a few characters motivations. The biggest and most egregious being Subzero and Scorpion.

Phoro posted...

That's a pretty narrow ask... But I'd still say the OG Mortal Kombat is probably the most faithful video game adaptation of all time.

That's the only most faithful video game adaptation.

None of the previous live action Resident Evil movies weren't faithful, Street Fighter was kinda close to SF2 and 3, Rampage wasn't even close to being faithful to the original game or World Tour, House of the Dead and House of the Dead 2 while fun weren't faithful, Need for Speed didn't follow any of the games, Doom was all the way bad, Prince of Persia was horrible, Super Mario Bros (90s) was bad but also kinda funny.

The King of Fighters was horrible,Tekken was bad too.

Haven't watched Sonic or Sonic 2 to see how faithful they are to the games.

The animated Super Mario bros didn't really adapt any of the games but its based on the franchise and it was pretty good.

Need for Speed could have adopted the story of Most Wanted or Undercover or The Run.

Rampage should have been like World Tour or at least the OG game.

The latest live action MK movie isn't super faithful to any of the games but it was pretty good.

The OG Mortal Kombat movie is the best one still. The director and writer respected the source material to an extent but they gave us a good movie

Mr_Karate_II posted...

The latest live action MK movie isn't super faithful to any of the games but it was pretty good.

ehhh its OC protag ruins it for me

AceMos posted...

ehhh its OC protag ruins it for me

Yeah he is annoying but him being the descendant of Scorpion was kinda cool.

The upcoming sequel will be about the tournament thankfully.

Not happy with who's playing Johnny Cage, if they're gonna go with an older Johnny Cage then they should have casted Linden Ashby as Johnny Cage and claimed he's from another dimension or some shit. He's still in good shape and actually has a martial arts background.

Karl Urban is ok but not my first choice for Johnny.