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UPDATE: The Weinstein Company Loses ‘Sin City 2’
Update: MTV reports that this story is bunk, while a new update (April 22) reports that this is in fact 100% TRUE! Some monster news just his the website IESB this evening as they’re reporting that the Weinstein Company has lost the rights to Sin City 2! “The specifics are not clear but some details are emerging that the movie will now be financed by a private equity group and an announcement is expected soon,” the site writes. “Robert Rodriguez’ Trouble Maker studios will still produce the film. No word on what studio may end up distributing. Universal Studios’ name has come up as a possible contender. ” Brittany Murphy, Mickey Rourke, Michael Clarke Duncan, Angelina Jolie, Rosario Dawson and Michael Madsen had all been confirmed to return in the sequel, but we’ll have to see how things flesh out from here on out.
No word on what studio may end up distributing. Universal Studios’ name has come up as a possible contender.
Zach Cregger is no stranger to violent movies, with his first two at-bats in the horror genre yielding the films Barbarian and Weapons. But even those movies can’t compete with the level of violence on display in his next movie Resident Evil, he teases in a new chat.
Zach Cregger tells Empire Magazine that Resident Evil is “definitely the most violent thing I’ve done.” He teases, “You gotta go grotesque! I wanted to go all the way.”
“So it’s gnarly. It’s brutal,” Cregger continues. “A very bloody affair.”
He also tells Empire, “Fleshing out what [the Umbrella Corporation is] up to and how the T-virus works, that’s not what this movie is. This movie is about one dude’s journey on foot, fighting monsters. I don’t give a fuck about checking boxes. All I cared about was just telling a fun story. We step on the gas at about eight minutes in and never take our foot off the floor.”
Resident Evil opens in theaters and IMAX September 18 from Sony.
The film is being billed as “a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise” from the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach 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.