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Early Plot Details for Kevin Smith’s ‘Red State’
I can’t believe how long we’ve been talking about Kevin Smith’s Red State without truly knowing what it’s about. That changes today as we’ve scored a look at the official logline that sheds some light on the comedy director’s first genre project. “In the film a group of kids encounter a crazed preacher (based on Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church) who gives a whole new meaning to the term “extreme fundamentalism.” ” Thus far Kyle Gallner, Melissa Leo, Dermot Mulroney, Michael Angarano, Steven Root, and character actor Michael Parks have all been attached to star. Shooting begins this August in Los Angeles.
Based on the iconic video game franchise, director Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil opens in theaters and IMAX September 18 from Sony, and the official runtime has been revealed.
According to the film’s listing on the AMC Theatres website, the runtime for Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil is 1 hour, 35 minutes, making it one of the franchise’s shortest movies.
And we are expecting a very intense, fast-paced 95 minutes from the film.
Zach Cregger had explained to IGN, “It feels like one gigantic sequence. Things pop off about five minutes in and it basically stays like that until the end. What I love about the games is that you move from set-piece to set-piece. Every location has a unique challenge. I’m borrowing from the games directly in that rhythm, where you’re just running through a gauntlet.”
Here are the runtimes for all Resident Evil movies to date…
- Resident Evil (2002) – 100 minutes
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse – 93 minutes
- Resident Evil: Extinction – 94 minutes
- Resident Evil: Afterlife – 97 minutes
- Resident Evil: Retribution – 96 minutes
- Resident Evil: The Final Chapter – 107 minutes
- Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City – 107 minutes
- Resident Evil (2026) – 95 minutes
The film is being billed as “a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise” from the mind of visionary filmmaker Cregger (Barbarian, Weapons).
Austin Abrams (Weapons) stars as Bryan, a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in a non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
Zach Cherry (“Severance”), Kali Reis (“True Detective: Night Country”), Paul Walter Hauser (“Black Bird”), and Johnno Wilson (“Twisted Metal”) round out the cast.
Cregger directs from a script he co-wrote with Shay Hatten (John Wick: Chapters 3 & 4).
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