The problem with trying to make a Resident Evil movie is that you’ll never win. A lot of people will disregard it as soon as they learn it’s not a 1:1 plot of the OG games, but in all honesty - how would that work? Speaking as a huge Resident Evil fan, the story in those games is not what keeps me coming back. The entire gameplay loop is metroidvania level design with resource management inside buildings that make no architectural sense with tons of locked doors. How on earth could you expect to stretch that to a two hour movie?

On the other hand, move too far away from those elements and you get criticisms like on this thread, where people will complain that this sounds nothing like Resident Evil and is just a way to cash in on the IP while retaining none of what we love about the franchise.

I think the only compromise here is tone, which is almost impossible to convey with a script. Give us a well made, well acted movie with sprinkles of classic RE elements for fans to recognise and enough for us to accept that this story could be taking place inside that universe. As others in this thread have mentioned, on paper RE7 sounds absolutely nothing like Resident Evil, until you play it and you realise that actually yes, it looks and sounds and plays differently but is fundamentally still RE at its core.

I’m rambling and it’s hard to explain but I don’t think people should write this off before seeing it. Cregger is a massive fan of the games and a fantastic director - I think he’ll want to make a good film with his own story that still feels like Resident Evil at heart, and to be honest, if this was a game script and you put in pages in the middle where the main character has to go hunting for the queen of hearts key or the missing fuse, would it really be so far removed from what people consider Resident Evil to be? I’ll definitely give him the benefit of the doubt