Columbia Pictures has just released the first taste of horror filmmaker Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil, based on the beloved horror video game series of the same name by Capcom. The film stars Austin Abrams, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis and Paul Walter Hauser.
Official sources from the film’s production share that it is an “an all-new story” straight from the “mind of visionary filmmaker Cregger“. This version will treat fans to a “thrilling-and terrifying- reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise.”
Abrams will appear as Bryan, a medical courier who becomes locked in a blood-curdling and spine-chilling fight for survival when attempting to deliver some cargo, as a vicious infection turns all near him into deadly, infected monsters and the night into complete chaos.
The plot runs alongside that of the second Resident Evil video game. Cregger is also known and loved for his successful horror films, Barbarian and Weapons.
Robert Kulzer, Cregger, Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, Carter Swan and Asad Qizilbash are credited as producers; meanwhile, Oliver Berben, Victor Hadida, Richard Wright and Robert Bernacci serve as executive producers.
The original Resident Evil games started in 1996, with 10 sequels following between 1998 and 2026, centred on an outbreak in the fictional Racoon City, with experiments in bio-organic weapons by a company called Umbrella turning people into mutated creatures. They have a worldwide cumulative gross of over $1.2billion.
There is also an original film adaptation series of six films, between 2002 and 2017, with Paul W.S. Anderson, Alexander Witt and Russell Mulcahy listed as directors. In 2021, there was a first attempted reboot by director Johannes Roberts.
Resident Evil hits cinemas on September 18th.
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