Columbia Photos and Constantin Movie have launched the primary trailer for the brand new Resident Evil film, which is directed by Zach Cregger (Weapons, Barbarian).
Set to debut in cinemas on September 18, the newest try at translating Resident Evil to movie is described as “an exciting and terrifying reinvention” of the franchise.
In keeping with an official synopsis, the film follows Bryan (Austin Abrams), a medical courier who “unwittingly finds himself in an action-packed, continuous race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night time collapses round him in chaos.”
In keeping with Constantin Movie CEO Oliver Berbin, director Zach Cregger was given “the carte blanche to do no matter he needed to do with that IP” for the brand new movie.
“With Resident Evil, we now have had an unimaginable journey with one of the crucial profitable worldwide IPs of greater than a billion {dollars} in field workplace for a few years,” he defined, “and now we’re creating one thing new – not only a new story concept, however to permit a brand new technology to take the IP into their very own palms and kind one thing completely different.”
Berbin mentioned the subsequent Resident Evil film is “far-off from every part that’s related to Resident Evil, solely as a result of Zach Cregger has his personal model”.
