News Resident Evil Paul Walter Hauser Joins Cast of Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil Movie Hauser joins Austin Abrams on the call sheet. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on September 17, 2025 Screenshot: Marvel Studios Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Marvel Studios Barbarian and Weapons writer-director Zach Cregger is chugging along with his next project, a film based on the Resident Evil video games, which he co-wrote with Shay Hatten. We already knew that Austin Abrams, who was recently in Cregger’s Weapons and who will also play Jay (the young man who gets swallowed by a whale) in the upcoming movie Whalefall was on board to star in the Resident Evil adaptation. And today, Deadline broke the news that First Steps’ Mole Man (pictured above), aka Paul Walter Hauser (Cobra Kai, The Naked Gun, The Afterparty) will also be in the film. Details on Cregger’s movie, which he’ll also be directing, are sparse. Cregger did say recently, however, that the movie would be more like Evil Dead 2 than the other movies already out based on the Resident Evil franchise. What role Hauser is playing is also unknown, as is Abrams’, though odds are good that Abrams will be our protagonist just trying to get somewhere and survive. Cregger, in fact, has called it “a real time foot journey, where you just go deeper and deeper into the depths of Hell.” Perhaps Hauser will be Abrams’ sidekick on this totally calm, uneventful journey? We’ll have to wait to find out! Almost a year, in fact; on September 18, 2026, we’ll be able to settle into our theater chairs with a big bucket of popcorn to see the totally low-key, non-scary movie where absolutely nothing bad or stressful happens to Hauser or Abrams. [end-mark] The post Paul Walter Hauser Joins Cast of Zach Cregger’s <i>Resident Evil</i> Movie appeared first on Reactor.