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An Odd Choice Made for New ‘The Ring 3D’ Script?
The future of The Ring franchise in the States has been an uncertain one for some time now. In Japan, there have been five films as well as two TV series. In the U.S., we’ve only got two films and now the next planned installment, The Ring 3D, may be getting a new script.
Deadline reports that Paramount is in talks with screenwriter Akiva Goldsman to pen a new draft of the script, with F. Javier Gutierrez directing. Goldsman is best known for writing Oscar-bait like A Beautiful Mind and Cinderella Man, as well as flops like this year’s A Winter Tale.
He seems like an odd choice to bring in for a Ring film. Well, “seems,” isn’t really an appropriate word – he is an odd choice. Then again, it’s been 10 years since The Ring Two, maybe the franchise could use a different approach. Like Samara could utilize Blu-ray technology rather than come out of a VHS tape. It might take a while until she can find someone with a VCR nowadays, y’know?
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.