Leon Kennedy actor is "cautiously optimistic" for Resident Evil movie

With Resident Evil Requiem being a smash hit for Capcom, reaching new heights for the series, it further highlights just how naff a lot of the Resident Evil films were, and how IP might ultimately be best suited to the medium of video games, as Ben Starr believes Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is.

However, there is another Resident Evil film in the works from Weapons director Zach Cregger, with Austin Abrams acting as the lead.

Arguably, Resident Evil’s most famous protagonist is none other than Leon S Kennedy, and so during the BAFTA Games Awards 2026, Radio Times caught up with the man behind the new voice of Leon, Nick Apostolides, to gauge his thoughts on the upcoming movie.

"I am very cautiously optimistic." Apostolides told us, adding that "I've been let down in the past".

Apostolides can dare to dream owing to Cregger being attached to the project, saying that "If there's one director who is not going to let me down, I think it's going to be this guy."

Apostolides has been a fan of Cregger’s work for some time, saying ,"I love Cregger’s work, and I trust that he's going to make a good film first and foremost, and it will have Resident Evil elements in it. So I'm very, very curious, actually."

Actor Ashleigh Morghan was also in attendance, and concedes that she actually "liked the Resident Evil movies", noting that she thought "the first was pretty good," though views it more as "a DLC to the game" as it is not "a direct copy of the game, but I thought they were fun."

Recently at CinemaCon, Cregger showed the first trailer for the Resident Evil movie, and Morghan said that the reception was positive, saying that "there's a lot of tension, and it's a good horror movie, and that Raccoon City might just be like the only character in it."

And much like Apostolides, Morghan reckons "Zach Cregger knows what he’s doing, and he's not going to ruin a 30-year franchise because he knows how much it means to people."

But however Morghan might feel about the prospects of the film, she concedes, "I'm excited to watch it vicariously because I'm afraid".

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