News Resident Evil Zach Cregger Says His Resident Evil Movie Will Be More Evil Dead 2 Than Weapons Weapons director Zach Cregger hasn’t seen any Resident Evil movies but is drawing inspiration from the games and a horror classic. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on August 11, 2025 Screenshot: Sony Pictures Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Sony Pictures The commercial and critical success of Zach Cregger’s Weapons has some looking ahead to what project he’ll be working on next. That project is a movie set in the universe of Resident Evil and is, according to Cregger, inspired by the video games and not the movies based on the franchise. In a recent interview on the Ringer podcast, Cregger shared that his movie is “a love letter to the games” and said that he’s never seen a Resident Evil movie though he’s “played the games obsessively.” He added, “This is a story that comes from a healthy, creative place. This is a story that I would have to write whether I got Residential Evil IP or not. I just happen to have these Resident Evil people be down. And so I get to play in their sandbox, and I’m honored to, and I’m stoked that I get to tell a story that I actually love.” Cregger also confirmed that Weapons actor Austin Abrams will also star in his Resident Evil film, but that the upcoming movie is “not going to be at all like Barbarian and Weapons. It’s going to be a rock ‘em, sock ‘em. It’s for me to play and for me to turn off my brain and just make, like an Evil Dead 2, like to get crazy with the camera.” When pressed for more information, Cregger said that it will be “a weird, fun, like just wild story. And it’s not doing any of this like, shifting and reinventing itself… this movie follows someone from point A to point B, and so it’s weird in that way—that it’s just a real time foot journey, where you just go deeper and deeper into the depths of Hell.” We’ll get to follow Cregger to Hell when his Resident Evil film hits theaters on September 18, 2026. [end-mark] The post Zach Cregger Says His <i>Resident Evil</i> Movie Will Be More <i>Evil Dead 2</i> Than <i>Weapons</i> appeared first on Reactor.