Zach Cregger's Resident Evil Trailer Drops Before Comic-Con
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- Sony released a new trailer for Zach Cregger's Resident Evil ahead of his Comic-Con Hall H appearance, with the film set to open September 18 from Columbia Pictures and Constantin Film in association with TriStar Pictures.
- Austin Abrams stars as Bryan, a medical courier who arrives at Raccoon City General hospital and finds himself in "a nonstop race for survival" as "one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos."
- Zach Cregger co-wrote the script with Shay Hatten and told CinemaCon the film will have "no narrative acrobatics, time jumps or disorienting chapter things" — viewers are "locked in with a protagonist on a foot journey through a world hell-bent on destroying them."
- The supporting cast includes Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, and Paul Walter Hauser, with the film adapted from Capcom's Resident Evil franchise, which launched as a video game series in 1996.
- The original Milla Jovovich-led six-film Resident Evil series launched in 2002 and grossed over $1.2 billion worldwide; Sony's previous reboot, Johannes Roberts' 2021 Welcome to Raccoon City, followed.
- Cregger comes off Weapons, a critical and commercial smash for Warner Bros. that grossed over $269M worldwide and earned Amy Madigan an Oscar, with producers on Resident Evil including Robert Kulzer, Roy Lee, and Carter Swan.
Why it matters: Sony is placing Cregger — fresh off Weapons' $269M gross and Oscar-winning performance — at the helm of a gaming-horror franchise whose previous screen incarnation (the Jovovich series) earned $1.2B+, and Cregger's stated pivot to a stripped-down "foot journey" survival format signals a deliberate tonal reset from the franchise's action-hero mold.
