{"id":86453,"date":"2026-07-24T11:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86453"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:37:00","slug":"heres-why-the-new-resident-evil-movie-has-snow-and-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86453","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Why The New Resident Evil Movie Has Snow And Smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s undeniable hype and chatter for filmmaker Zach Cregger&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/resident-evil-movie-release-date-cast-story\/1100-6534453\/\">Resident Evil movie<\/a>, but one talking point from fans concerns the evident differences in setting between the adaptation and the Resident Evil 2 game, despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/resident-evil-movie-director-says-it-lives-in-the-world-of-these-specific-games\/1100-6534441\/\">film &#8220;living in the world&#8221; of that game<\/a>. But Cregger hasn&#8217;t been shy to address these creative changes, and he candidly spoke about why his movie is set in the present day with a snowy backdrop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at San Diego Comic-Con (per DiscussingFilm), Cregger reminded fans that he &#8220;took liberties to tell a story [he] wanted to tell and make a movie look the way [he] wanted to look.&#8221; While the Raccoon City outbreak depicted in Resident Evil 2 and 3 takes place in September 1998, Cregger&#8217;s film depicts characters using contemporary iPhones and sets the outbreak during wintry weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I am not doing exactly a one-to-one Resident Evil 2 adaptation,&#8221; Cregger said. &#8220;There are differences between the movie and the game.&#8221; He added that the snow is an aesthetic choice, and he &#8220;looks really f**king cool to have a horror movie set in the snow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiscussingFilm\/status\/2080477872934854745?s=20  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These statements are consistent with what Cregger has been saying about his film for the past<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s undeniable hype and chatter for filmmaker Zach Cregger&#8217;s Resident Evil movie, but one talking point from fans concerns the evident differences in setting between the adaptation and the Resident Evil 2 game, despite the film &#8220;living in the world&#8221; of that game. But Cregger hasn&#8217;t been shy to address these creative changes, and he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":86455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86456,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86453\/revisions\/86456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}