A brand new Resident Evil film is within the works, and there is reportedly a bidding battle 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 jot 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 might be good change of tempo from the earlier Resident Evil movies. The latest adaptation, 2021’s Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon Metropolis, tried to adapt the primary two video games in a single movie, but it surely did very poorly in theaters. The six Resident Evil motion pictures that got here earlier than that have been largely targeted on Milla Jovovich’s Alice, a personality who was created for the movies. Up to now, there hasn’t been a live-action Resident Evil movie that actually captured the spirit of the video games.
Sony’s Display screen Gems distributed all the earlier Resident Evil motion pictures, 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 alleged 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 identify within the report. Netflix has beforehand launched a live-action Resident Evil sequence starring Lance Reddick along with streaming varied animated RE movies. Nevertheless, Warner Bros. could have the sting, because it picked up the rights to Weapons throughout a earlier bidding battle for Cregger’s companies.
Paul W.S. Anderson, the person who directed the primary six Resident Evil movies, was 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 era.
