I Assume The Film Is Going To Rip

Zach Cregger is teasing his new imaginative and prescient for Resident Evil and why he wished to reboot the franchise.

The movie adaptation of the Capcom videogame is about to star Austin Abrams, and in a brand new interview, Cregger revealed why he wished to inform this story.

“Because I love the games,” Cregger advised ComicBook. “I played all of the games. I played Resident Evil 4 a hundred times through. I’m obsessed with it. And so, I just want to tell a story that feels like it’s honoring the experience you get when you play the games.”

He continued, “I haven’t seen the movies, that’s just not my thing. But the games are my thing. That’s just a playground I just love….I think the movie is going to rip. I think it’s going to rip.”

Earlier this 12 months, Cregger attended CinemaCon, the place he additionally supplied perception into the Resident Evil movie he was engaged on.

“There’s a moment that comes in every moment of every Resident Evil game where you find yourself standing in the mouth of a dark passageway. One shot in the gun is left,” he mentioned. “You know that something horrible is waiting for you in that darkness, that awful moment where you have to will yourself. That’s something that every Resident Evil game has perfected and has kept me and millions of other players returning to the series for decades.”

Cregger added that his movie “will be built in the spirit of those games and follows one central protagonist from point A to point B, as they descend deeper into hell.”

Resident Evil is predicted to be launched on September 18, 2026.