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During their CinemaCon position connected Monday night, Sony offered a first look astatine their caller Resident Evil film from Weapons and Barbarian helmer Zach Cregger.
The trailer introduces Austin Abrams arsenic a young man trudging done nan snowy acheronian and up to a dark, quiet house. He had a problem connected nan road, he says, and wants to usage nan phone. Calling his girlfriend, he says “some things person happened,” he’s successful “a earnestly f*cked up situation,” and “we mightiness not get to talk to each different again.”
We don’t spot precisely what’s happening, but get a glimpse astatine different creatures and bodies falling bloody successful nan snowfall from a awesome height.
In Creggers’ Resident Evil, Abrams plays Bryan, a aesculapian courier who unwittingly finds himself successful an action-packed, non-stop title for endurance arsenic 1 fateful, horrifying nighttime collapses astir him successful chaos.
The caller movie marks nan latest big-screen adjustment of Resident Evil, nan celebrated scary video crippled bid from Capcom, which has translated into 1 of nan highest-grossing video game-based movie franchises ever. Milla Jovovich led nan original blockbuster movie series, spanning six films, which launched successful 2002 and led to much than $1.2 cardinal successful worldwide container agency grosses. Most recently, Sony returned to nan world of Resident Evil pinch nan Johannes Roberts-helmed 2021 reboot Welcome to Raccoon City.
Launched successful 1996, the Resident Evil video crippled franchise centers connected nan outbreak of a deadly microorganism tied to nan shadowy Umbrella Corporation. At CinemaCon past year, Cregge teased that his adjustment is “built successful nan tone of those games and follows 1 cardinal protagonist from constituent A to constituent B, arsenic they descend deeper into hell.”
Cregger directed nan caller Resident Evil, releasing via Columbia Pictures connected September 18, from a book written pinch Shay Hatten. Constantin Film produced nan pic and co-financed. The formed besides includes Zach Cherry, Kali Reis and Paul Walter Hauser. Producers included Robert Kulzer, Cregger, Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, Carter Swan and Asad Qizilbash. Executive producers are Oliver Berben, Victor Hadida, Richard Wright and Robert Bernacci.
