{"id":308287,"date":"2026-02-24T20:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/308287\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:37:08","slug":"zach-cregger-has-been-given-carte-blanche-on-his-resident-evil-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/308287\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Cregger has been given carte blanche on his Resident Evil movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zach Cregger, writer\/director of\u00a0Barbarian<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Weapons<\/a>, is directing a new\u00a0Resident Evil\u00a0movie for Sony, aiming for a\u00a0September 18, 2026\u00a0theatrical release.\u00a0Cregger has said that his movie will be \u201cobedient to the lore\u201d of the\u00a0Resident Evil\u00a0video games, but won\u2019t be about the characters from the games, because their stories have already been told in game form. Filming got underway a couple of months ago, with the streets of Prague being transformed into the video game setting of Raccoon City. The project is now in post-production \u2013 and\u00a0according to Constantin Film CEO Oliver Berben, Cregger has been given carte blanche on it.<\/p>\n

Cast and Story<\/p>\n

Cregger wrote the screenplay with Shay Hatten (Army of the Dead) and the story\u00a0apparently harkens back to the original Capcom game\u2019s horror roots.\u00a0Here\u2019s the supposed logline:\u00a0Bryan, a laid-back organ courier, is sent on a late-night delivery to Raccoon City General Hospital. En route through a snowy mountain road, he accidentally hits a strange woman with his car. She survives\u2014but something is very wrong. As he tries to help, Bryan stumbles into a full-blown outbreak involving horrifying tentacle-based mutations and bio-engineered monstrosities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Weapons\u00a0cast member Austin Abrams has the lead role and is joined in the cast by Paul Walter Hauser (Cobra Kai), Zach Cherry (Severance), Johnno Wilson (I Love That for You), and the previously mentioned Kali Reis. Cherry is said to be playing a scientist at a hospital and Reis is set to play an ex-military character that was initially written for a male actor.<\/p>\n

Cregger, a big fan of the\u00a0Resident Evil\u00a0video games who has never watched any of the previous movies, has said, \u201cIt\u2019s gonna be not at all like\u00a0Barbarian\u00a0and\u00a0Weapons. It\u2019s going to be a rock \u2019em, sock \u2019em\u2026 it\u2019s for me to play. And turn my brain off and just make an\u2026\u00a0Evil Dead II\u2026 get crazy with the camera.\u00a0\u2026\u00a0It\u2019s a weird, fun, wild story. This movie follows a person from point A to point B. It\u2019s like a real time journey, where you just go deeper and deeper into the depths of Hell.\u201c<\/p>\n

Constantin Film is producing and co-financing the film. Constantin\u2019s Robert Kulzer, Vertigo Entertainment\u2019s Roy Lee and Miri Yoon, and PlayStation Productions are also producing. Nicole Brown will be overseeing the project for Sony\u2019s Columbia Pictures.<\/p>\n

Carte Blanche<\/p>\n

Berben recently told Deadline<\/a> that Cregger\u2019s film is a \u201ccomplete new set-up\u201d of the Resident Evil franchise that is \u201cfar away from everything that is connected to\u00a0Resident Evil,\u00a0only because Zach Cregger has his own style.\u201d Cregger was given \u201cthe carte blanche to do whatever he wanted to do with that IP. With\u00a0Resident 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.\u201c<\/p>\n

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