Sony has unveiled two new posters and an additional teaser for Resident Evil, offering another look at Zach Cregger’s upcoming reboot of the horror franchise—and putting one of Prague’s most recognizable filming locations front and center. One newly released poster prominently features Prague 7’s Přístavní Street, transformed into a snow-covered zombie battleground during filming in Holešovice last November.
The new artwork closely mirrors scenes The Prague Reporter photographed from the set during production, with wrecked vehicles, artificial snow, and bloodied streets matching the elaborate setup created for the film’s Prague shoot.
The latest promotional materials arrive just weeks after Sony debuted Resident Evil’s first teaser trailer, which already revealed several Prague-shot sequences. An additional new teaser breakdown and the posters further confirm the extent to which the Czech capital serves as the visual foundation for Cregger’s version of Raccoon City.
Holešovice featured in Resident Evil marketing
The newly released posters for Resident Evil highlights one of the production’s largest Prague shoots, filmed across several nights in Holešovice between Nov. 14 and 17 last year. During the shoot, filmmakers transformed Přístavní Street into a devastated American-style urban corridor filled with crashed vehicles, fake storefronts, practical gore effects, and paper snow soaked in artificial blood.
The Prague Reporter documented the production extensively at the time, capturing both photos and video from the set as crews staged chaotic zombie attacks and nighttime chase sequences along the industrial Prague 7 street. Many of the same visual elements seen in those behind-the-scenes images, including snow-covered pavement, destroyed cars, and debris-strewn streets, now appear prominently in Sony’s official marketing materials.
The production also recreated detailed American-style scenery throughout the area, adding fictional businesses, U.S. road signage, Colorado license plates, and practical effects designed to evoke the virus-ravaged setting of Raccoon City. Several other Prague locations, including Karlín and areas surrounding the Negrelli Viadukt, also appear in footage released so far.
The new teaser released this week expands on those Prague-shot sequences, again showing Austin Abrams’ character Bryan fleeing through snowy streets as infected creatures attack from surrounding buildings. Quick shots in the footage closely scenes observed during filming in Holešovice and Karlín.
Cregger positions reboot alongside ‘Resident Evil 2’
Cregger has continued to emphasize that his film is not a direct adaptation of any individual game, but rather an original story designed to recreate the experience of playing the classic survival-horror series. In recent comments to IGN, the director said he imagines the film unfolding alongside the events of Resident Evil 2, taking place elsewhere in Raccoon City while the game’s better-known characters pursue their own storylines.
“My rule for this movie was to try and make a movie that felt like my experience of playing the games,” Cregger said in a newly released teaser breakdown video. Rather than retelling Leon Kennedy’s storyline, the film instead follows Abrams’ Bryan, a medical courier caught in the middle of the outbreak while attempting to complete a delivery across the collapsing city.
The newly released teaser reinforces the grounded survival-horror tone Cregger has repeatedly referenced in interviews. Unlike earlier film entries that leaned heavily into large-scale action, the footage emphasizes panic, limited resources, and improvised survival against increasingly grotesque infected creatures.
Produced by Constantin Film and Sony, Resident Evil stars Abrams alongside Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, Paul Walter Hauser, and Johnno Wilson. Prague-based Stillking Films handled local production services during the Czech shoot, which also received support from the Czech Audiovisual Fund.
Filming in Prague continued through early 2026, with the city once again serving as a stand-in for an American urban environment. Resident Evil is scheduled to open in cinemas worldwide, including IMAX, on Sept. 18.
Lead image: Resident Evil poster comparison / set photo © The Prague Reporter
