I think many were a tad shocked when Zach Cregger was tapped by Sony Pictures and Constantin Film to help with their latest attempt at a reboot of the “Resident Evil” film franchise, from the teaser trailer it certainly feels like the mood of the original games is inherently in there and the director understands the source material than other people who have tried to bring the popular video games to live-action in the past. Adding to that promise that the first-look footage has tried to make that this will be much cooler than what has come before, Cregger is now hyping up the action side of things being a lot more embedded into the survival hororr pic.
“It feels like one gigantic sequence,” Cregger told Empire Magazine of the action beats in his upcoming remake. “Things pop off about five minutes in, and it basically stays like that until the end. What I love about the games is that you move from set-piece to set-piece. Every location has a unique challenge. So again, I’m borrowing from the games directly in that rhythm, where you’re just running through a gauntlet.”
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Austin Abrams, who appeared in Cregger’s witchy original flick “Weapons” as a sneaky unhoused person with a substance abuse problem, leads the remake’s cast as a medical courier named Bryan thrust into a world where the Umbrella Company’s lab-created T-virus has been uleashed on the population (turning humans into not only zombies, but also mutanted creatures that will be nightmare fuel) alongside Paul Walter Hauser (“I, Tonya”), Kali Reis (“True Detective: Night Country”), Zach Cherry (“Fallout,” “Severance”), and Johnno Wilson (“Twisted Metal”).
“They were kind enough to hear me out and let me run with it,” Cregger said of how this remake might be a studio IP, but still will feel like one of his movies with the branding of a beloved IP. “It’s really a Zach Cregger movie that just happens to be a ‘Resident Evil’ movie…The concept here is that we’re following an idiot…Not that he’s stupid, but he’s not your typical game character, with no combat skills whatsoever and completely inept at survival. Bryan is very much an everyman who happens to be burdened with this kind of sacred mission that’s going to take him into the heart of everything. It’s kind of like Frodo going into Mordor.”
We’ll know for sure how relentless Cregger’s remake will ultimately be with the action side of things (we’ve seen with both “Barbarian” and “Weapons” that the filmmaker has plenty of tricks up his sleeve when it comes to genre beats) when Sony unleashes “Resident Evil” in theaters on September 18. Other movie projects on the horizon for Cregger include his “Gladys” prequel movie with Amy Madigan returning after earning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar statue for the role, and his sci-fi original pic “The Flood” (has Steven Spielberg‘s Amblin involved and reportedly a deep-space project that might be comparable to Ridley Scott‘s “Alien” that pivoted from Netflix to Warner Bros.)
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