Barbarian and Weapons director Zach Cregger is being given free rein on his upcoming Resident Evil movie.<\/p>\n
Constantin Films, best known for shepherding several live-action Resident Evil films and TV shows to life, is back onboard for Cregger’s take on the horror franchise. But, instead of walking a familiar path, CEO Oliver Berben is keen that Cregger puts his own stamp on the new video game movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To that end, Cregger is being given “the carte blanche to do whatever he wanted to do with that IP,” (via Deadline<\/a>).<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n \u201cWith Resident Evil, we have had an incredible journey with one of the most successful international IPs of more than a billion dollars in box office for many years, and now we are creating something new, not just a new story idea, but to allow a new generation to take the IP into their own hands and form something different.\u201d<\/p>\n That chimes with what Cregger has already told expectant fans about the movie. Earlier this year, he described his feature<\/a> as a “comedic” and “crazy” origin story.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, there was a suggestion that no Resident Evil legacy characters would show up<\/a> \u2013 with apologies to all the Wesker and Leon fans out there.<\/p>\n “It’s an entirely original story,” Cregger told EW<\/a>. “When you watch it, you’ll be like, ‘This is very Zach.’ It’s just [that] it takes place in the Resident Evil world. I don’t think fans of the games are gonna be bummed.”<\/p>\n Cregger, a fan of the games, has also admitted to never having seen a Resident Evil movie<\/a>. No chance, then, that his on-screen interpretation will be influenced by the previous live-action titles, which have a mixed reputation among Resi fans and non-fans alike.<\/p>\n Resident Evil, starring Austin Abrams, Paul Walter Hauser, and Zach Cherry, hits cinemas on September 18.<\/p>\n For more, check out 2026’s big movie release dates<\/a>, plus all the new PS5 games<\/a> on the horizon \u2013 including Resident Evil Requiem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barbarian and Weapons director Zach Cregger is being given free rein on his upcoming Resident Evil movie. Constantin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-296020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}