A brand new report from Deadline reveals that there’s a brand new dwell motion Resident Evil film within the works at Sony, with Barbarian director Zach Cregger tapped to direct.
Cregger can be co-writing the script alongside John Wick Chapter 3 and 4 author Shay Hatten, although for now any particulars in regards to the script or the plot of the movie is being saved secret.
Save for one tidbit, which is that in response to Deadline’s report, this new movie “harkens again to the unique Capcom sport’s horror roots.”
It’s presently set to reach in theatres on September 18, 2026, with PlayStation Productions additionally engaged on producing the movie.
So although we don’t know a lot of something about this new Resident Evil movie, it appears to be like like there’s an opportunity this will likely be very totally different from earlier dwell motion Resident Evil movies, within the sense that it’ll focus extra on horror than motion.
And that sounds fairly thrilling. A Resident Evil 7-type shift for the Resident Evil movies with the main focus put extra on making a horror film could possibly be precisely what the franchise wants.
Supply – [Deadline]
