If you’re in New York City or Los Angeles, you might notice some mysterious marketing going on around the city, including in Time Square and Hollywood. It’s a red poster (both static and dynamic versions) with a photo of a missing person along with the tagline “Evil has always had a name.”

Use the QR code to access the link to watch the new live-action trailer. Resident Evil Requiemstarring Maika Monroe. actress from long legs, his memoriesand it follows Enter the world of video games in a way she describes as “short film-like dynamics.”

“There were a bunch of extras in zombie makeup and they were just walking around, which was really funny,” Monroe says. entertainment weekly He spoke in an exclusive interview held on the day of the narration recording session in early November. “Cops, dogs, smoke machines, it was just chaos. It really felt like chaos.”

monroe is unknown resident evil Including the characters of requiem (Release date: February 27th on consoles). Rather, she tells stories of new snack foods from the world of Raccoon City, the Umbrella Corporation, and the zombie-creating T-Virus.

She portrays a mother living in Raccoon City, the epicenter of the outbreak, in the 1990s. “First I heard sirens, then an emergency broadcast…and then I heard a scream,” Monroe says in character.

The trailer, shot in Mexico City, continues to flash as a woman survives scenes of street violence, trying to keep her daughter alive and avoid zombies and lickers. A flash-forward reveals their ultimate fate. A zombified Monroe (with a prosthetic limb that took about three and a half hours to install) clutches a photo of mother and child.

“What I loved about this piece is that it has a lot of heart,” Monroe says. “It’s really heartbreaking to see the story you’re watching unfold. I thought it was a really interesting and new way to depict this video game being released.”

The actress recently appeared on screen in the film Reimagined. The hand that rocks the cradleunplayed resident evil I like games, but I don’t really like them, but I know about them through the movie series starring Milla Jovovich. The trailer shoot was directed by Rich Lee, a well-known director of music videos for various performers (Billie Eilish, Lana Del Rey, Eminem, etc.). Monroe remembers the lookbook he sent her with visual references.

“I felt very nostalgic,” she says. “The biggest takeaway was that it took me back to the ’90s, the original location of Raccoon City. And of course, when you get to the end, you get the zombie visuals and then I end up being a zombie. That was really, really exciting.”

story of Resident Evil Requiem Follow FBI intelligence analyst Grace Ashcroft and veteran agent (and fan favorite character) Leon S. Kennedy. To investigate the latest in a series of deaths, Grace visits an abandoned hotel in the Midwest where her mother was murdered eight years ago. A police officer goes missing and Leon is dispatched.

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Entering the world of Monroe resident evil Follow a series of interesting roles in the horror space. Most importantly, the chilling 2024 film with co-star Nicolas Cage and director Osgood Perkins. “I definitely felt a change after joining the company.”long legsBut I made two movies right after that, and now I have three movies. long legs It wasn’t horror at all,” she says. “At this point, it would take something very specific in the horror field for me to want to do it. Of course I have my likes and dislikes, but I love the horror genre.”

I hope Monroe will be back soon they obeythe sequel to the 2014 indie horror hit. it follows This has been reported in the press, but there has been no official update for a while. “Rumors are going around that it’s going to happen. So I’ve heard some good news recently so I’m trying to stay positive,” she teases. “Okay, let’s take a look.”

Regarding the script, he said, “It was completely different from what I expected. [her character] “Jay thought it was really funny,” Monroe continued. If you say, “That’s cool,” I think the viewers will probably have the same reaction. As cliché as it may sound, it’s true to the source material and the same team is all back…the story is still in that territory, but it’s more epic and, yeah, I’m really, really excited. ”

Until then, watch Monroe run through Raccoon City. Resident Evil Requiem Trailer above.