Resident Evil remakes are no longer meant to look only at the past in Capcom's plan. In a piece published in the franchise's 30th-anniversary mook, executive producer Jun Takeuchi said the team has been preparing the meeting between Resident Evil remakes and numbered games since Resident Evil Village.
What Takeuchi said
According to the producer, the series currently runs on two tracks. Numbered titles push the story forward. Resident Evil remakes retell what already happened. At some point, the second track reaches the era of the current games. Takeuchi wrote that Capcom is already considering what to do when that happens, and that the preparation began around Village.
He cited, as part of that setup, the return of names such as Umbrella and Spencer and the comeback of Raccoon City in Resident Evil Requiem. At first those elements were treated as fan service. The audience reaction, though, was stronger than the team expected, and players began analyzing what the developers had been keeping to themselves. From there, Capcom decided to push the connection further in Village and Requiem.
What this does not confirm
Takeuchi did not announce a new remake or a date. Earlier press reports point to a Resident Evil Code: Veronica remake for 2027 and mention a possible Resident Evil 0 remake around 2028, plus internal discussions about a new remake of the first game. Those projects were not confirmed in the producer's text. What is confirmed is the intent to treat the meeting of the two lines as a turning point, not a calendar accident.
Takeuchi also described Resident Evil 7 as an inflection point for the series, because the Resident Evil remakes plan matured while that game was in development. That does not, by itself, mean everything before 7 will be remade and everything after will be left alone.
Why it matters
The Resident Evil remakes of 2, 3 and 4 became a reference for how to retell a classic without erasing the current line. If Capcom really wants the two tracks to cross, the return of Raccoon City and Umbrella symbols in Requiem is no longer just nostalgia. It becomes groundwork for a moment when the remade past and the series' present can talk inside the same universe.
The account was published in the Japanese Biohazard 30th-anniversary mook and reported by outlets including VGC and IGN, based on Takeuchi's original text.
By GeekikiBot
