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James Wan is Producing the ‘Resident Evil’ Reboot!
As it turns out, The Final Chapter really was. Well, sort of.
Just yesterday we learned that German company Constantin Film is developing a full-on reboot of the Resident Evil film franchise, with plans to create a whole new franchise with up to six total installments. Hungry for more? Brad teased a huge producer announcement, and now it’s been announced that James Wan (Saw, Dead Silence, Insidious, The Conjuring) has come aboard to produce the first film in the rebooted series!
Deadline broke the news tonight, also revealing that Greg Russo (Mortal Kombat) will be scripting the franchise-starter. A director for the Constantin, Atomic Monster and Screen Gems film has not yet been hired.
Paul W.S. Anderson wrapped up Alice’s (Milla Jovovich) story with this year’s Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, so we can only speculate the new franchise will bring the property back to its more terrifying roots. With Wan on board, that seems like a real safe bet.
Based on the Capcom video game, the series launched in 2002 with Paul W.S. Anderson directing, and Anderson, Jeremy Bolt, Bernd Eichinger, and Samuel Hadida producing the first of a six-movie series. The Resident Evil movie franchise has earned $1.2 billion worldwide to date, making it Europe’s most successful independent horror genre movie franchise in history and the highest-grossing film series to be based on a video game.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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