Sony has gained the bidding struggle for the Resident Evil film reboot—the identical studio that launched the primary (dangerous) six Resident Evil reside motion films, plus the Jovovich-less (and nonetheless dangerous) reboot Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon Metropolis in 2021.
Some issues by no means change, I suppose. Perhaps the eighth time would be the allure?
As we reported in January, the brand new Resident Evil reboot (coming simply 4 years after the primary reboot) is being written and directed by horror’s new hotness, Zach Cregger, and the challenge was being shopped round between a number of studios. In accordance with The Hollywood Reporter, Sony got here out on prime, retaining it out of the eagerly clawing fingers of Warner Bros and Netflix.
It is not arduous to grasp why Sony would need to grasp onto these Resident Evil rights: regardless of not a single considered one of its Resident Evil movies scoring above 38% on Rotten Tomatoes, the sequence has been monstrously profitable financially, collectively incomes over $1.2 billion on the field workplace.
However will this second reboot be good? All indicators level to: we’ve actually no approach of figuring out. The script hasn’t even been written, however Cregger’s 2022 horror movie Barbarian was good, so possibly?
The movie can also be being produced below Sony’s Columbia Photos label this time round, not Display screen Gems as the sooner RE movies had been. This may occasionally point out a bigger funds than the RE franchise has traditionally had: Columbia is identical label because the Spider-Man Universe movies like Venom, Kraven, and, uh, Morbius. These films aren’t good, however they had been costly! In order that’s… one thing.
We’ll have to attend some time to see how this all pans out. Regardless of not having a script or a forged, the Resident Evil reboot already has a launch date: September 18, 2026.
