You don’t hire Zach Cregger, director of one of the most innovative horrors in recent history with Weapons, to do the same ol’ thing. From the very beginning, Cregger has made it clear that his new Resident Evil reboot will be nothing like the franchise-long action movies led by Milla Jojovich. Nor was it meant to be a faithful adaptation of the hit Capcom video games. And now with the new teaser released by Sony Pictures, we can see that he wasn’t lying, and this will be a brand new experience set within that zombie-filled universe.
Cregger’s Resident Evil stars Austin Abrams, who had a small but key role in Weapons, as a medical courier whose night descends into chaos as Raccoon City experiences a viral outbreak that turns people into monsters. The film won’t feature any of the game’s popular characters such as Jill Valentine, Leon Kennedy, or Albert Wesker. It’s meant to be an original standalone story set within that universe.
Joining Abrams in the cast are Zach Cherry, Kali Reis and Paul Walter Hauser. The film was directed by Cregger, who co-wrote the script with John Wick 3 and Army of the Dead writer Shay Hatten.
SYNOPSIS: From the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger (Weapons, Barbarian) comes a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise. In an all-new story, Resident Evil follows Bryan (Austin Abrams), a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in an action-packed, non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
Resident Evil hits theaters on September 18th.
