The film has started a bidding war A “faithful” Resident Evil reboot movie is reportedly in the works from Barbarian creator Zach Cregger. READ MORE: ‘Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City’: old-school zombie flick serves up sufficient scares The first Resident Evil movie was released in 2002 with Milla Jovovich’s Alice working with soldiers to contain an outbreak of the T-Virus, which turns people into zombies. The film borrowed elements from 1996’s original Resident Evil and the 1998 sequel but also took a lot of creative liberties with the lore of the survival horror franchise.
Five more movies in the Resident Evil series were released before 2021 reboot Resident Evil: Welcome To Racoon City . Welcome To Racoon City also took heavy inspiration from the first two Resident Evil games but was met with mixed reviews. Now another new reboot is in the works, according to The Hollywood Reporter .
Written by Zach Cregger, the creator of celebrated horror mystery Barbarian , the new film will reportedly take the series back to its horror roots and “be more faithful” to the early Resident Evil games. The report goes on to say Cregger’s film is the subject of a bidding war, with four studios including Netflix and Warner Bros. interested in the project.
Shay Hatten ( John Wick: Chapter 4 , Army Of The Dead ) is co-writing the script while PlayStation will produce the film. The most recent entry in the series was a remake of 2005’s Resident Evil 4 , which launched .
