Fans have speculated since the end of Resident Evil 4 and Separate Ways that Capcom was gearing up to remake Resident Evil 5, and those theories only strengthened when Veronica was announced.
Leakers poured cold water on the idea again and again, but when Requiem executive producer Jun Takeuchi recently teased that the "remake series will catch up with the era of the numbered titles," speculation reignited. Many took his comments as outright confirmation that RE5 and RE6 remakes are in development. They're not.
As per reputable leaker Dusk Golem, who has a proven track record leaking key details from both Requiem and the Code Veronica remake, Capcom does not have a Resident Evil 5 remake in development.
"I think Resident Evil 5 will happen eventually, but it's not happening now as of a few months ago," he explained. "They greenlit a few RE projects a few months ago. None of them were RE5, & to my knowledge, all the team's hands are full with other projects for any possibility for this to be true, unless like some project got scrapped in half a year and replaced with this for some reason, which I find incredibly unlikely with...
