A brand new Resident Evil film is within the works, and there is reportedly a bidding conflict underway amongst 4 main studios to land it. That is as a result of the upcoming Resident Evil reboot already has Barbarian helmer Zach Cregger hooked up to write down and direct the movie.
Based on The Hollywood Reporter, Cregger’s Resident Evil is described as “a revamp that may take the title to its horror roots and be extra trustworthy to the preliminary video games.” That will be good change of tempo from the earlier Resident Evil movies. The newest adaptation, 2021’s Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon Metropolis, tried to adapt the primary two video games in a single movie, nevertheless it did very poorly in theaters. The six Resident Evil films that got here earlier than that have been largely targeted on Milla Jovovich’s Alice, a personality who was created for the movies. So far, there hasn’t been a live-action Resident Evil movie that really captured the spirit of the video games.
Sony’s Display screen Gems distributed the entire earlier Resident Evil films, however the rights to this one are up for grabs as a result of Cregger has some field workplace clout. Barbarian was critically acclaimed and a cult hit, whereas his second horror film, Weapons, is claimed to have very excessive screen-test scores, although it is but to debut publicly.
Solely two of the 4 studios–Warner Bros. and Netflix–were talked about by title within the report. Netflix has beforehand launched a live-action Resident Evil sequence starring Lance Reddick along with streaming numerous animated RE movies. Nevertheless, Warner Bros. could have the sting, because it picked up the rights to Weapons throughout a earlier bidding conflict for Cregger’s providers.
Paul W.S. Anderson, the person who directed the primary six Resident Evil movies, was just lately hooked up to direct an adaptation of Sega’s Home of the Useless. Moreover, a documentary about George Romero’s unproduced Resident Evil film debuted earlier in January. For followers of the video games, it seems that Resident Evil 6 could also be coming to the present console technology.
