Overview
- Monday and Tuesday coverage confirmed that Cregger originated the project, directed the film, and co-wrote the script with Shay Hatten.
- Austin Abrams stars as Bryan, a medical courier and intentional everyman who has no combat skills and propels a nonstop gauntlet of set pieces.
- The film is structured as “one gigantic sequence,” with action and threats beginning minutes in and sustaining relentless escalation through distinct location-based challenges.
- Cregger says the picture downplays classic zombies in favor of varied T-virus mutants and other creature designs, and new images show Abrams trapped with an infected passenger.
- Resident Evil is scheduled for theatrical and IMAX release on September 18, and the director’s prior horror hits helped secure his broad creative control within the Capcom/Sony-backed production.