A brand new Resident Evil film is within the works, and there is reportedly a bidding struggle 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 connected to jot down and direct the movie.
In accordance with The Hollywood Reporter, Cregger’s Resident Evil is described as “a revamp that can take the title to its horror roots and be extra trustworthy to the preliminary video games.” That may 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, however it did very poorly in theaters. The six Resident Evil motion pictures that got here earlier than that have been largely centered on Milla Jovovich’s Alice, a personality who was created for the movies. Thus far, there hasn’t been a live-action Resident Evil movie that really captured the spirit of the video games.
Sony’s Display 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 title 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. might have the sting, because it picked up the rights to Weapons throughout a earlier bidding struggle for Cregger’s providers.
Paul W.S. Anderson, the person who directed the primary six Resident Evil movies, was lately connected to direct an adaptation of Sega’s Home of the Lifeless. 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.