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Fox’s ‘Alien’ Anthology Blu-rays to Blow Away Fans?
When it comes to Fox Home Video Blu-ray releases, I shutter in fear that I’m about to get jipped once again. With Fox preparing a super-duper box set for my favorite franchise of all-time, Alien, I’m praying we don’t get another Ghostbusters (Sony’s horrid hi-def release). Good news comes in via The Digital Bits who reports we’re about to be blown away. “In an interview with the L.A. Times over the weekend, actress Sigourney Weaver revealed that she’s going to be recording brand new audio commentary tracks for each of the four ‘Alien’ films – tracks that will be added to Fox’s nearly complete ‘Alien’ Anthology Blu-ray box set. We’ve confirmed this news with our industry sources, who have also informed us that the box set is going to blow away fans of the previous DVD Quadrilogy. Not only have all of those previous extras have been included, but TONS of new material has been added as well exclusively for the Blu-ray release – extras that should make the BD WELL worth upgrading to. The set will be released in mid-to-late 2010.” Fingers crossed it hits alongside James Cameron’s Avatar in 4 to 6 months.
The official Resident Evil trailer has arrived this morning, bringing a closer look at the nonstop survival horror ride filled with references to Capcom’s classic game series and T-virus gore.
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil opens in theaters and IMAX September 18 from Sony.
The trailer below introduces Austin Abrams (Weapons) 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.
Cregger directs from a script he co-wrote with Shay Hatten (John Wick: Chapters 3 & 4).
The trailer keeps its focus on the central human character arriving amidst an outbreak, revealing very little in the way of its mutated threats. The film’s director previously teased not to expect a zombie-heavy film.
Cregger explains, “This movie doesn’t utilize zombies that much. It’s much more focused on the weird creature stuff than the zombies. There’s really only two scenes, maybe three, where there’s proper zombie stuff going on. And two of those three are in the trailer.”
“But other than that… I wouldn’t call this like a zombie movie,” Cregger previews. “I just feel like, you have this opportunity for the T-Virus to do all these really fascinating things to the human body, and to the world around you, and so to just limit it to zombies feels like a squandered opportunity. So I tried to really vary it up.”
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.
Watch the new trailer below, spot the signature Resident Evil shotgun shells and more.