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Paramount Dates ‘World War Z’ Sequel!
Even through all of the production issues, I really liked 2/3 of Brad Pitt’s World War Z. And had Damon Lidelof not fucked with the ending, we may have seen Pitt decapitating zombies with some new kid of military weapon instead of Pitt waltzing around hospital.
Whatever the case, World War Z was a huge, huge success – in fact, it’s Pitt’s biggest money making feature ever ($540M worldwide). And being a producer on it, shit, he’s a rich mofo.
They’ve been hard at work on a sequel ever since the first hit theaters in 2013. Now, Paramount is readying it with an eye to release on June 9, 2017 where it will go head-to-head with Fox’s Fantastic Four sequel. But Paramount shouldn’t worry – there’s no way that FF sequel gets off the ground that quickly. Mark my words.
Back in January Steven Knight, the sequel’s screenwriter, told Indiewire: “It’s not quite like the other; we’re starting with clean slate.”
As of that writing, shooting was said to start on World War Z 2 as early as this coming October with J.A. Bayona set to direct.
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.
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