German film studio Constantin Film CEO Oliver Berben is briefly talking up the upcoming “Resident Evil” reboot (Constantin continuing that partnership with Sony Pictures) from on-the-rise filmmaker Zach Cregger that has made some major waves in the horror world after delivering the one-two punch of “Barbarian” and “Weapons.”
That success comes with perks and trust, and as Berben points out to Deadline, despite Cregger moving into the world of studio-owned IP/franchises, he was able to secure “carte blanche” with his vision for the zombie survival horror reboot and reaffirms the movie isn’t based on any specific video game lore.
Barber told the outlet that the new iteration is “far away from everything that is connected to ‘Resident Evil,’ only because Zach Cregger has his own style…the carte blanche to do whatever he wanted to do with that IP.”
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“With ‘Resident Evil,’ we have had an incredible journey with one of the most successful international IPs of more than a billion dollars in box office for many years, and now we are creating something new, not just a new story idea, but to allow a new generation to take the IP into their own hands and form something different.”
Zombies in the game are a side effect of the T-virus created by the evil Umbrella Corporation, which also transforms humans and animals into mutated creatures with deadly consequences.
Cregger directed from a script he co-wrote with Shay Hatten, with a cast that consists of Austin Abrams (“Weapons”), Paul Walter Hauser (“Blackbird”), Zach Cherry (“Severance,” “Fallout”), and Kali Reis (“True Detective: Night Country”). He also enlisted veteran cinematographer Dariusz Wolski, who isn’t a stranger to horror material, having shot films such as “The Crow,” “Dark City,” “Prometheus,” “Alien: Covenant,” and the Tony Scott sports thriller “The Fan.”
“Resident Evil” is a film franchise based on the mega-popular Capcom video games that launched back in 1996 for the first PlayStation and led to the feature film from Paul W.S. Anderson (after a failed attempt by the late George A. Romero) being released in 2002, featuring actress Milla Jovovich as Alice, a character that didn’t originate from the games. It would spawn five theatrical sequels with Jovovich as the face of the franchise before it got a mostly forgotten reboot with “Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City” in 2021.
The studio head added that they’ve indeed wrapped filming on “Resident Evil” as the horror flick is in the editing process and Sony already announced a release date of September 18, 2026.
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