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Weapons director Zach Cregger says his Resident Evil film will be inspired by Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead II.<\/p>\n
The 44-year-old filmmaker has established himself in the horror genre thanks to his new critically acclaimed movie Weapons, which sees Julia Garner and Josh Brolin’s characters investigating the disappearance of a class full of children, and 2022’s Barbarian.<\/p>\n
Cregger’s next project is a new Resident Evil movie – which will be the eighth live action film based on Capcom’s survival horror video game series – and he wants it to be a zombie attack romp, using Raimi’s 1987 cult classic sequel as a reference point.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Ringer, he said: “It\u2019s gonna be not at all like Barbarian and Weapons. It\u2019s going to be a rock \u2019em, sock \u2019em \u2026 it\u2019s for me to play. And turn my brain off and just make an \u2026 Evil Dead 2 … get crazy with the camera. Austin Abrams is gonna be my guy. It\u2019s a weird, fun, wild story.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis movie follows a person from point A to point B. It\u2019s like a real time journey, where you just go deeper and deeper into the depths of hell.”<\/p>\n
Cregger has assured fans of the games – which pitted numerous Raccoon City cops against the mysterious Umbrella Corporation, an international pharmaceutical company that secretly develops mutagenic viruses – that he will be fully respectful of the lore and cannon of the console titles.<\/p>\n
He added: “It\u2019s really a love letter to the games. Because I love those games. This is a story that I would\u2019ve wanted to write whether I got the IP or not. I just happen to be able to have these Resident Evil people be down. So I get to play in that sandbox. I\u2019m doing it because I think this movie is going to be awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n
The new Resident Evil film hasn\u2019t started principal photography yet, and little is known about the movie\u2019s plot.<\/p>\n
However, it has been reported that the movie – which Cregger co-wrote with Shay Hatten – will follow a struggling courier assigned to deliver a package to a remote hospital.<\/p>\n
Along the way, he becomes trapped in the midst of a viral outbreak and must battle his way through swarms of mutated creatures to survive.<\/p>\n
Austin Abrams – who collaborated with Cregger on the director\u2019s upcoming horror flick Weapons – is set to star as the main protagonist.<\/p>\n
Resident Evil has featured on the big screen since 2002 with the eponymous horror flick, which starred Milla Jovovich as the action heroine Alice.<\/p>\n
The film received five sequels, with the last entry in the series, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, coming out in 2016.<\/p>\n
In 2021, Resident Evil was rebooted with Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City – which starred Avan Jogia as Leon S. Kennedy and Kaya Scodelario as Claire Redfield.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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