Within the lead as much as his latest movie Weapons, we realized author/director Zach Cregger would deal with Resident Evil for his subsequent venture. Within the months since, he’s been obscure about what to anticipate from the movie, and his latest teases are barely extra concrete when it comes to telling us his recreation plan for Capcom’s zombie franchise.
Speaking to Inverse, Cregger referred to as himself “the most important worshipper of the video games, so I’m telling a narrative that’s a love letter to the video games and follows the principles of the video games.” Not too dissimilar to what he’s mentioned earlier than, besides he revealed the film is “exterior of the characters of the video games. It’s obedient to the lore of the video games, it’s only a totally different story.” Extra particularly, he mentioned he wouldn’t inform the story of Leon S. Kennedy, who many anticipated to be the lead since Cregger’s introduced on Austin Abrams (additionally in Weapons) to play a personality, and the actor himself appeared to provide Leon vibes.
Past that, Cregger’s feedback point out whoever Austin’s enjoying, it’ll be an entirely new character. The Resident Evil films are not any stranger to this; Milla Jovovich’s Alice was made particularly for the movies, which stopped being devoted to the video games after a sure level, a lot to the ire of longtime followers (in the event that they had been ever devoted to start with). After these films wrapped in 2017, the 2021 Welcome to Raccoon Metropolis touted itself as extra devoted to the primary two video games, however that didn’t actually resonate with audiences, like…in any respect. Humorous to consider how issues have come again round for the collection, isn’t it?
And if that in any respect bothers you, Cregger diplomatically factors you towards the video games within the collection—like Resident Evil Requiem, hitting PC and consoles in February 2026.
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