{"id":249230,"date":"2025-11-07T11:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/249230\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:51:12","slug":"images-from-the-set-of-zach-creggers-resident-evil-take-us-to-a-snowy-raccoon-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/249230\/","title":{"rendered":"Images from the set of Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil take us to a snowy Raccoon City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zach Cregger, writer\/director of\u00a0Barbarian<\/a> and the recently released film\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. Production is underway, with the streets of Prague being transformed into the video game setting of Raccoon City \u2013 and images from the set have dropped online to give the first glimpse of the film\u2019s snowy Raccoon City. You can check them out at the bottom of this article.<\/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. Here\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), Kali Reis (True Detective: Night Country), and Johnno Wilson (I Love That for You). 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 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

Are you looking forward to Zach Cregger\u2019s Resident Evil? Let us know by leaving a comment below. Here are the first set images: <\/p>\n

FIRST LOOK: Zach Cregger\u2019s RESIDENT EVIL has transformed Prague into a snowy Raccoon City, filming large-scale action sequences with gunfire, explosions, and stunt driving. \ud83e\udddf\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\ud83c\udfa5<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udcfa RE Movie Details: https:\/\/t.co\/RSwZ1e2Pzk<\/a>
\ud83d\udcc5 Release Date: Sept 18, 2026
\ud83d\udd0d Source: The Prague\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/FGBTRPq9hj<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 RESIDENCE of EVIL (@ROEnetwork) November 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n