{"id":88736,"date":"2026-09-02T13:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88736"},"modified":"2026-09-02T14:36:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:36:49","slug":"resident-evil-director-says-theres-no-chance-hed-survive-his-own-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88736","title":{"rendered":"Resident Evil Director Says There\u2019s \u201cNo Chance\u201d He\u2019d Survive His Own Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Resident Evil games over the years have slowly added more fantastical elements to their tale of bioweapons running amok, but for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/resident-evil-movie-release-date-cast-story\/1100-6534453\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new live-action movie<\/a>, director Zach Cregger is dialing back those ideas to a more &#8220;grounded&#8221; level. Even so, he doesn&#8217;t think he&#8217;d fare very well if he were dropped in that world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I feel like some of the Resident Evil games get a little magical,&#8221; Cregger\u00a0said during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/movies\/comments\/1w15axg\/hey_rmovies_zach_cregger_here_director_of_the\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reddit Ask Me Anything session<\/a>\u00a0(via YouTuber <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4PLnn_rIGfg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Troy Hill Talks Movies<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;[Resident Evil] 8,\u00a0we have a woman who can turn into a bird and fly around. And\u00a0like, I love it.\u00a0I&#8217;ve played it a bunch of times.\u00a0I think it&#8217;s an awesome game, but in terms of me making a movie out of it, it&#8217;s like I&#8217;ve got to try and limit\u00a0some of the wild aspects of Resident Evil.\u00a0And so I chose to stick with the\u00a0T-Virus, keep it as grounded as possible.\u00a0So that means I&#8217;m not going to have a gigantic jacked dude in a trench coat,\u00a0because I&#8217;m like, where&#8217;d the coat come from?\u00a0How did he get the coat?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/youtu.be\/mNd1gb19A-c  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cregger explained that while the Resident Evil games do explain how Mr. X gets his stylish coat, in the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resident Evil games over the years have slowly added more fantastical elements to their tale of bioweapons running amok, but for the new live-action movie, director Zach Cregger is dialing back those ideas to a more &#8220;grounded&#8221; level. Even so, he doesn&#8217;t think he&#8217;d fare very well if he were dropped in that world. &#8220;I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":88738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88736","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\/88736"}],"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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88739,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88736\/revisions\/88739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}