Writer-director Zach Cregger has made quite an impact firstly with ‘Barbarian’ and then last years excellent Oscar winning, ‘Weapons’ a film that caused much talk about what the film might have been about before being released to huge acclaim and earning $269m off a modest budget. Well now we have a further look at his latest film with the release of the full Resident Evil trailer.
What to expect from the Resident Evil trailer…
This new film is billed as 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.
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Zach Cregger clarified that he isn’t interested in directing scripts written by other people, as he wants to be personally involved with the writing process of everything he works on. While this stance might change down the line, it exhibits an admirable brand of conviction/commitment, which might be the key to a film that will break the so-called “video game adaptation curse” that the franchise has suffered so far. When asked about his “Resident Evil” movie, Cregger said: “That’s an original screenplay, by the way. It’s a weird story. I wrote it, and I love the story. It has nothing to do with any of the other ‘Resident Evil’ movies. If I do my job, it will feel fresh and edgy and weird […] I have ‘Resident Evil’, and then I have a sci-fi movie right after that’s original […] Then I have another one that I’m working on that feels like ‘Nightcrawler’. But all of those are original. My agents don’t even send me scripts, because I’m not going to direct other scripts. I’m in a very fortunate position to be able to write a movie and have a good shot at getting a movie made, [so] why would I not do it if I like to write?
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Here’s the trailer….
