In spite of everything these years taking part in the unique “Resident Evil” video games in your outdated PlayStation 1 and a couple of, the “Resident Evil” movie franchise is once more within the arms of PlayStation.
A reboot of the “Resident Evil” franchise from director Zach Cregger (“Barbarian”) has landed at Sony Footage and producer PlayStation Productions, bringing the Capcom sport again dwelling to its roots and a few of the individuals who know the video games finest. Sony has even already given the movie a launch date of September 18, 2026.
Although Sony’s Display Gems label produced the unique “Resident Evil” movie franchise as directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, a return to PlayStation wasn’t a assure. Warner Bros. and New Line, which launched “Barbarian” and is placing out Cregger’s subsequent characteristic “Weapons” in January 2026, have been circling the undertaking, sparking a bidding struggle for the horror online game IP.
Cregger is directing “Resident Evil” as his subsequent undertaking after “Weapons,” and he’s additionally co-writing the script with Shay Hatten (“John Wick 4,” “Insurgent Moon”). Plot particulars are being saved beneath wraps, however after the “Resident Evil” movies with Milla Jovovich stopped resembling the nonetheless operating video video games a protracted very long time in the past, having it within the arms of PlayStation suggests it’ll hew nearer to Capcom’s authentic imaginative and prescient.
Constantin Movie is producing and co-financing the movie. Constantin’s Robert Kulzer, Vertigo Leisure’s Roy Lee and Miri Yoon, and PlayStation Productions are additionally producing.
The six “Resident Evil” motion pictures, which date again to 2002 and ran by way of 2012 (there was additionally a 2021 movie “Raccoon Metropolis” and a Netflix sequence in 2022), have grossed $1.2 billion on the worldwide field workplace, making it one of many extra profitable video game-to-film franchises.
Cregger’s “Weapons” was offered as a spec script in a bidding struggle to New Line after his debut “Barbarian” was a shock field workplace hit, grossing $45 million worldwide towards a funds of $4.5 million. His new movie stars Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, and Alden Ehrenreich, and the not too long ago launched “Companion,” which Cregger produced for New Line, has additionally been a sleeper hit with $34.8 million on the field workplace to date.
Up subsequent for PlayStation Productions is in fact the second season of its mega hit “The Final of Us,” which HBO is releasing subsequent month, and it additionally has the horror movie “Till Daybreak” opening subsequent month as properly. The online game model can be within the works on sequence diversifications of its largest tentpoles “God of Warfare,” “Horizon: Zero Daybreak,” and a “Ghost of Tsushima” movie.
Deadline first reported the information.