{"id":280847,"date":"2025-11-24T16:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280847\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:01:10","slug":"weapons-director-talks-resident-evil-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280847\/","title":{"rendered":"“Weapons” Director Talks “Resident Evil” Tone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Screen Gems<\/p>\n

With just two films, \u201cBarbarian\u201d and this year\u2019s \u201cWeapons,\u201d filmmaker Zach Cregger has become one of the most in-demand directors around.<\/p>\n

Both critically acclaimed films have become box-office successes, as well as showing off the director\u2019s penchant for nonlinear structure and narrative trickery.<\/p>\n

Up next is something curious \u2013 a new film adaptation of the \u201cResident Evil\u201d franchise \u2013 one that\u2019s not a direct adaptation of the games. Instead, it\u2019s said to be a return to the horror tone of those titles as opposed to the previous films and shows, which adopted a more action-centric approach.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Deadline\u2019s Crew Call<\/a> podcast (via The Playlist<\/a>) from Prague, where he\u2019s in the midst of production, he reveals that the new film will employ a more straightforward approach than his last two:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe movie I\u2019m in Prague right now working on has no big twists. It\u2019s not a narrative balancing act. There\u2019s no\u2026 it is a pretty straightforward thing. It follows one character from point A to point B. That\u2019s it. And it\u2019s kind of refreshing, you know. I get to kind of just reset and just like play.\u201d<\/p>\n

That said, don\u2019t expect an entirely traditional film approach. Cregger says a big reason he\u2019s doing this, aside from his love for the games, is that he\u2019s attempting to translate a game-style structure into a feature film:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve played the games religiously. I am intimately familiar with \u2018Resident Evil\u2019 as a game franchise. And I find it to be inherently cinematic. There\u2019s something about the structure of those games and the pacing of those games that is so thrilling to me.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never seen a movie that really leans in to what those games offer. I love the slow creeping dread that these games naturally kind of exist in. The idea of being able to make a narrative film with the video game structure\u2026 I can\u2019t believe it hasn\u2019t happened yet. It feels like this movie should have been made a really long time ago, so I\u2019m kind of excited that I get to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Overall, he says he\u2019s \u201cfeeling very excited about this\u201d. He adds that they\u2019re also still in the \u201cdeal-making process\u201d for the \u201cWeapons\u201d spin-off film about Gladys, so he can\u2019t talk much about it for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Screen Gems With just two films, \u201cBarbarian\u201d and this year\u2019s \u201cWeapons,\u201d filmmaker Zach Cregger has become one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-280847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}