Will Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil Movie Be Set In The Game Universe? Here’s How They’re Connected

As of this writing, there have been seven live-action feature films based on Capcom‘s popular series of zombie-based video games. The “Resident Evil” films released from 2002 to 2016 were all part of the same (bugnuts crazy) continuity, following the state of the world after the release of a deadly mutagenic virus that can turn people into zombies, Hulk-like mutants, or vampires (?). The film series was rebooted in 2021 with the release of Johannes Roberts’ “Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City,” a film that attempted to re-insert horror elements into a film series that had gone off the rails. All the while, Capcom kept releasing “Resident Evil” video games. From 2002 to 2021, 20 games…