Resident Evil Welcome To Raccoon City Trailer Breakdown 20 Story Reveals

Resident Evil Welcome To Raccoon City Trailer Breakdown: 20 Story Reveals

The new Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City trailer provides plenty of story details, references, and Easter eggs in just two and half minutes.

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The new Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City trailer shows off all-new story details and monsters alongside some Easter eggs and smart references to the original Resident Evil video games. Coming from director Johannes Roberts, the new movie will have no connection to the previous Resident Evil movie franchise that starred Milla Jovovich. Instead, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City will be a more faithful adaptation focusing on the horror elements of the original games.

The first Resident Evil game was released in 1996 and saw the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team searching for the Bravo team. They had lost contact with the Bravo team after they went missing while investigating a series of deaths on the outskirts of Raccoon City near Spencer Mansion, which was revealed to be a front for a secret Umbrella Corporation laboratory and research center. Resident Evil 2, released in 1998, took place a few months later in the heart of Raccoon City and Claire Redfield and Leon S. Kennedy teamed up to survive a T-virus outbreak in the city. Between the two of them, the games helped to define and popularize the concept of survival horror games.

Sony Entertainment Productions had previously released a handful of still images from the movie that included a shot of the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team in Spencer Mansion, an image of Claire Redfield (Kaya Scodelario) and Leon S. Kennedy (Avan Jogia) working together, and a first look at the iconic Resident Evil antagonist Lisa Trevor. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City’s new trailer gives a much fuller idea of the movie’s storyline as well as several glimpses that prove Roberts is doing a deep dive on the source material. Here’s every story beat, reference, and Easter egg you might have missed from the Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City trailer.

20. Claire Redfield Rides Her Motorcycle Into Raccoon City

In the opening shot of the new Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, Claire Redfield is seen riding her motorcycle in Raccoon City. Her motorcycle is seen several times throughout the trailer and is an important inclusion as it is an iconic part of her appearance in Resident Evil 2. This fits with the way the movie is honoring her original red leather jacket but also recognizes Claire Redfield’s deeper history as having developed an interest in motorcycle customization during university.

19. When Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City Takes Place

While it had previously been announced that Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City would combine the narratives of the first two games, it was not clear how that could work based on the timeline of the games. The first game takes place on July 24, 1998, with the events of the second not happening until September 29, 1998. The new trailer has confirmed that the changes to the plot will allow all the adaptation of all of these events to have happened on the same night with the date stamp confirming September 30, 1998, meaning that the new setting is the day after the original events of Resident Evil 2 when the Raccoon City breakout first happened.

18. Claire Is Returning To Raccoon City

Chris Redfield (Robbie Amell) aggressively asks Claire why she has come back to Raccoon City while referencing their childhood together. While in the games she had previously only visited Raccoon City to see her brother, this line suggests that in the newest Resident Evil movie, Claire Redfield grew up in the city and might have a greater knowledge of the area.

17. Chris And Claire Redfield Are Working Together To Expose Umbrella

The first Resident Evil follows Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine (Hannah John-Kamen) as key members of the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team and playable characters. Resident Evil 2 sees Claire Redfield enter Raccoon City looking for her brother, not knowing that Chris has left to go to Europe where he is investigating the Umbrella Corporation’s headquarters. Therefore, the original two games never see the pair working together, but the images from the Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City trailer and the voiceover make it clear that the two will team up to work to expose the Umbrella Corporation.

16. Ben Bertolucci Contacted Claire Redfield To Help In Raccoon City

In Resident Evil 2, Ben Bertolucci (Josh Cruddas) is an investigative journalist who was working to discover the origin of the murders near Raccoon City. His research indicated the Chief of Police was taking bribes from Umbrella to cover up the murders and Bertolucci was arrested to keep him quiet and died in his cell after being attacked during the outbreak. In the Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City trailer, Ben Bertolucci appears to have had a previous connection to Claire Redfield and has reached out to her for help. This becomes the new reason for her to return to Raccoon City rather than searching for her brother as she did in Resident Evil 2.

15. Lisa Trevor Gets A Creepy Close-Up

Lisa Trevor (Marina Mazepa) was ignored in the previous Resident Evil movies but played an important role in the first game as the horrific result of the Umbrella Corporations experiments. The new shot in the trailer gives a better idea of how accurate the Resident Evil movie reboot’s depiction of the character is with Lisa’s face visible underneath the additional face she has sewn onto herself in the hopes of one day giving it to her mother. While infected with many different viruses and serving as the origin of the G-virus, Lisa retains some element of her psyche which is evident in the new trailer as she shushes someone off-camera.

14. Raccoon City Falls Into Chaos

As the Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City trailer appears to not be entirely chronological, it is hard to tell exactly when Raccoon City becomes subject to the T-virus outbreak. However, as well as several images of the police shooting into hordes of zombies, a scene shows a tanker crashing and exploding in front of the Raccoon City Police Department. While the film might take place when the outbreak has already started (as is indicated by the date for the movie), this tanker scene suggests that the city is still managing to function up to this point with this being part of Raccoon City’s true fall into chaos.

13. Antagonist Chief of Police Brian Irons Fights For His Life

The Chief of Police, Brian Irons (Donal Logue), who was implicated in the original game by Ben Bertolucci, makes his first appearance in this trailer. While he is supposed to be in charge of the police force, he notably appears alone in a parking deck suggesting that he might have deserted his post in the wake of the outbreak. As Resident Evil 2 saw most of the police force killed before Claire Redfield arrived, it is possible that Irons is the only one left standing, and the trailer sees him struggling to keep himself alive.

12. Resident Evil’s Zombie Dogs Make Their First Appearance In A Classic Way

The Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City trailer shows Chief of Police Brian Irons terrorized by an ominous growl before the camera cuts to a zombie dog bursting through a car window toward the camera. As well as appearing to be an accurate rendition of the original dogs that looked like Dobermans with missing flesh, this entrance is a nod to the original games. In the first Resident Evil, the very first appearance of a zombie dog comes as it bursts suddenly through a window in the Spencer Mansion to attack the player.

11. Claire Redfield Teams Up With Leon S. Kennedy

While Claire and Chris Redfield appear to be working together in the larger narrative, that doesn’t stop Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City from honoring Resident Evil 2’s original pairing. Leon S. Kennedy is a new recruit for the RPD and has arrived at the precinct to find most of the police force has been killed. While Leon’s story is not focused on in the new trailer, Claire Redfield hands him an RPD bulletproof vest as they team up, hinting that he might be new and still getting to grips with the situation as Claire takes charge.

10. S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team Arrive At Spencer Mansion

While Resident Evil sees the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team arrive at the Spencer Mansion at the beginning of the game, it appears that they will arrive much later in Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. Based on the events in the trailer, it seems likely that Chris Redfield is pushed by Claire to pull together the team and head out to the Spencer Mansion not to investigate the Bravo team’s disappearance, but the source of the outbreak. This splitting of the groups might allow for the two plots to naturally run concurrently with the connections through Umbrella and William Birkin coming out naturally together.

9. William Birkin’s Research Is Key

William Birkin (played by Neal McDonough) is a major figure in Resident Evil 2. He is revealed to have been recruited by Umbrella along with Albert Wesker and they were both instrumental in the experiments upon Lisa Trevor. In the game, he is attempting to save his life’s research but also seeking to betray the Umbrella corporation from the inside. The new trailer for Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City shows Birkin seemingly actively working on research during the course of the main events of the film.

8. History Of Umbrella’s Research Is Uncovered

The Umbrella Corporation’s history of research on less than willing test subjects will clearly come to light in Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. The trailer shows old recordings of a younger William Birkin alongside shots of old Umbrella files documenting the work done on Lisa Trevor’s. The file includes Birkin’s name and suggests that Lisa Trevor has not been seen in some time. This falls in line with the original games where Umbrella attempted to kill Lisa Trevor but her resilience to any form of harm led to her wandering the grounds near the mansion instead.

7. Albert Wesker Tells The Team To Split Up

A key element of the Resident Evil 1 plot is that the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team splits up at the beginning of the game, allowing the player to choose which team to follow. This is apparently nodded to in the Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City trailer as Albert Wesker (Tom Hopper) recommends that the team split up within the mansion. This also indicates that the movie will follow the game’s original plot that saw Wesker betray the team as he works toward his own ends.

6. A Helicopter Crashes Into Spencer Mansion

In Resident Evil 1, the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team locate the remains of a crashed helicopter that belonged to the Bravo team. Meanwhile, the Alpha team helicopter pilot, Brad Vickers (Nathan Dales), is important to the narrative as he communicates with the team via radio and eventually aids in the survivors’ escape. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City might not include the Bravo team at all, but the new trailer sees a helicopter crash into the Spencer mansion in real-time. This might mean that the team has trouble escaping and could spell doom for Brad Vickers in the movie.

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5. Raccoon City’s Zombie Appearance Is Faithful To Resident Evil 1

The Resident Evil movie reboot trailer shows several shots of vague groups of zombies. However, it also gives the first up-close views of zombies in action as one in a lab coat is seen in Spencer Mansion eating a corpse. While the situation and attire are different, the appearance of the zombie’s white skin, hairless head, and bloody mouth, as well as the way that it slowly turns towards the camera, are direct reproductions of the first appearance of a zombie in the original Resident Evil game.

4. “Itchy Tasty” Is A Resident Evil 1 Reference

In the Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City trailer a zombie is seen writing “ITCHY TASTY” on some glass in blood. This is a deep-cut reference to Resident Evil when the player can find the journal from an animal keeper who has been exposed to the T-virus. As the keeper slowly loses his mind, he references that his skin is itchy and then explains that he killed and ate someone and notes that they were tasty. The final entry into his journal is simply “Itchy. Tasty.”

3. William Birkin Dies And Is Reanimated

A shot near the end of the Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City trailer suggests that William Birkin eventually dies and becomes reanimated as a mutant. In the original game, after Birkin was injured, he injected himself with the G-virus, hoping it would stabilize within him and he would be able to save himself and his research. However, he instead mutated in a G-mutant and caused huge amounts of destruction before eventually being killed.

2. A Huge Mutant Attacks The Team

In one of the final shots of the Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City trailer, a giant mutant climbs down through the ceiling. While this could be a tyrant or super-tyrant, or even a version of nemesis, it is possible that this is William Birkin himself. While he does not mutate to such a degree in the games, he notably has a large eyeball on his shoulder and this new creature appears to have giant eyes on each shoulder.

1. Lickers Return For Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City

Lickers are one type of mutant that has become infamous in the Resident Evil franchise. They appeared first in Resident Evil 2 and are the result of a humanoid mutation that creates a creature that runs on all fours and has a long, weaponized tongue. They were included in the Milla Jovovich-fronted Resident Evil movies, and it would have been remiss of Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City to leave out a crucial monster from the games.

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