Overview
- Sony and Constantin have scheduled Resident Evil for theatrical and IMAX release on September 18, 2026, and the film is now in its public marketing phase with fresh images and interviews.
- Cregger says he treated the project as a personal film and told Empire that it is “really a Zach Cregger movie that just happens to be a Resident Evil movie,” a framing that gives him wide creative latitude.
- The story follows Bryan, a medical courier played by Austin Abrams, who is cast as an everyman protagonist with no combat skills thrust into a single, relentless night of survival.
- Cregger describes the movie as feeling like “one gigantic sequence,” with action kicking in early and continuing through linked set pieces, and he emphasizes varied T‑virus mutants over conventional zombie encounters.
- The film was co-written with Shay Hatten and produced by Constantin, Vertigo, PlayStation Productions and Sony, it features Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, Paul Walter Hauser and Johnno Wilson, and an early test screening reportedly drew positive but limited reactions that should be treated as provisional.