- Primary Subject: The first official trailer for Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil movie reboot
- Key Update: Director Zach Cregger reveals a terrifying first look at his Resident Evil reboot, featuring an original story.
- Status: Confirmed
- Last Verified: April 30, 2026
- Quick Answer: Sony released the Resident Evil reboot trailer, directed by Zach Cregger. It stars Austin Abrams in an original, body-horror-heavy survival story set for September 2026.
The highly anticipated trailer for the Resident Evil movie reboot has finally arrived, giving us our first look at Zach Cregger's take on the video game property.
Instead of directly adapting the video games, the Weapons director's version will be an original new story that takes place in the Resident Evil franchise and follows a new set of characters. This will be the eighth overall installment in the Resident Evil movie series and the second attempt to reboot the franchise after the underwhelming Welcome to Raccoon City.
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil Reboot Releases First Trailer
Sony has finally dropped the first trailer for Zach Cregger's Resident Evil movie reboot, offering fans a terrifying preview of the upcoming installment.
While the footage did not show any familiar characters from the video games (as this adaptation intended), it still has the familiar atmosphere and elements that we expect in a Resident Evil story.
The trailer opens with an introduction to Bryan (played by Austin Abrams), a medical courier who finds himself stranded and isolated in a snowy, rural landscape. Seeking a way to reach his girlfriend, he enters a seemingly abandoned farmhouse to use a landline, only to find the phone dead and the atmosphere thick with dread.
The tension spikes as he is forced to flee an unseen threat, eventually barricading himself in a nearby barn where he manages to scavenge and load a shotgun, marking the moment his survival mission truly begins.
In a jarring shift, the setting moves from the silent countryside to the sprawling, apocalyptic ruins of a city (presumably Raccoon City) during the height of an outbreak. It suggests a race to survival for Bryan as he navigates streets filled with abandoned cars and decaying infrastructure. This urban landscape expansion heightens the stakes, showing that the infection has already consumed society and turned the familiar cityscape into a claustrophobic maze of death.
There is also a jump-cut of the grotesque horrors Bryan must face, moving away from traditional action and into pure body horror. We see a glimpse of a pale, obese behemoth lurking in the shadows of a sewer and a creature with contorted, spindly limbs emerging from a door frame.
The footage culminates in a terrifying urban sequence where zombies line the rooftops and hurl themselves down onto the streets, emphasizing that this new installment will have visceral, relentless terror.
What is Zach Cregger's Resident Evil About?
In an all-new story, Zach Cregger's Resident Evil follows Bryan (Austin Abrams), a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in an action-packed, non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
The first details reveal the film will take place in Raccoon City, during the events of the Resident Evil 2 game. This means that the city hasn't been turned into ashes by the nuclear blast.
Aside from Abrams, the cast also includes Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, and Paul Walter Hauser. All of them are playing new characters that have never been introduced in the video games or in the previous film adaptations.
Cregger's Resident Evil reboot will be released in theaters on September 18. It will also be available in premium large formats such as IMAX.
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