As Zach Cregger prepares to deliver Resident Evil to the large display as soon as once more, he’s venturing exterior the canon for a brand new story.
The director, who’s rebooting the franchise for Sony, lately defined that though he’s “not breaking the foundations of the video games,” the film depicts a narrative “exterior of the characters of the video games.”
“I’m the largest worshiper of the video games, so I’m telling a narrative that could be a love letter to the video games and follows the foundations of the video games,” he advised Inverse.
“It’s obedient to the lore of the video games, it’s only a totally different story,” added Cregger. “I’m not going to inform Leon’s story, as a result of Leon’s story is advised within the video games. [Fans] have already got that.”
At CinemaCon in March, Cregger echoed teased that his adaptation is “constructed within the spirit of these video games and follows one central protagonist from level A to level B, as they descend deeper into hell.”
‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’ (2010) (Display screen Gems/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
Co-written with Shay Hatten, Cregger’s Resident Evil landed at Sony in March. In the meantime, Austin Abrams is in talks to star within the reboot.
“I’ve been a rabid fan of those video games for many years, and to have the ability to deliver this superb title to life is a real honor,” he advised Deadline on the time.
Based mostly on the 1996 Capcom online game, Resident Evil has been tailored into seven motion pictures since 2002, together with a 2021 reboot, surpassing $1.2 billion on the field workplace. In 2022, Netflix canceled its Resident Evil sequence after one season.
