{"id":451924,"date":"2026-02-03T21:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/451924\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T21:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:07:11","slug":"resident-evil-requiem-gets-a-live-action-trailer-starring-maika-monroe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/451924\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident Evil Requiem gets a live-action trailer starring Maika Monroe"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The Resident Evil video game franchise will continue with the release of Resident Evil Requiem\u00a0on February 27th, when the game will be available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC. Building up the hype before the game arrives, a live-action trailer \/ short film has dropped online \u2013 and it stars genre regular Maika Monroe, whose credits include It Follows, The Guest<\/a>, Watcher, Longlegs, and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle<\/a>. You can watch it in the embed above.<\/p>\n

New Game<\/p>\n

Entertainment Weekly<\/a> lets us know that Resident Evil Requiem\u00a0follows FBI intelligence analyst Grace Ashcroft and veteran agent (and fan-favorite character) Leon S. Kennedy. Grace travels to an abandoned Midwestern hotel, where her mother was murdered eight years prior, to investigate the latest in a series of deaths. When a cop goes missing, Leon is dispatched to assist.<\/p>\n

Live-Action Trailer<\/p>\n

The live-action trailer was filmed in Mexico City and directed by Rich Lee, who has been at the helm of music videos for the likes of Billie Eilish, Lana Del Rey, Eminem, and more. Monroe isn\u2019t generally a gamer and hasn\u2019t played the\u00a0Resident Evil\u00a0games, but she said that the look-book Lee sent to her before they shot the trailer was \u201cvery nostalgic. The big point was going back to the \u201990s, the original location of Raccoon City. And then of course, you get to the end and they\u2019re showing visuals of the zombies, that I would then get to be a zombie. It was really quite exciting.\u201d The article notes that Monroe has watched the Milla Jovovich Resident Evil movies.<\/p>\n

Monroe told Entertainment Weekly that she was drawn to working on the live-action trailer because \u201cit had a lot of heart. It\u2019s really heartbreaking, the story that you\u2019re watching unfold. I just thought it was a really interesting and a new way to portray this video game coming out.\u201d As for the filming experience, \u201cWe had a lot of extras in zombie makeup just cruising around, which was quite funny. Cops and dogs and smoke machines \u2014 it was just chaos. I mean, it really felt like chaos.\u201c<\/p>\n

Will you playing Resident Evil Requiem? Take a look at the live-action trailer, then let us know by leaving a comment below.<\/p>\n

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