The director and writer of Barbarian and Weapons, Zach Cregger, is working on a new Resident Evil film for Sony that will be released in theaters on September 18, 2026. Since the story of the Resident Evil video game characters has already been recounted in the game, Cregger has stated that his film will be “obedient to the lore” of the series.
Cregger and Shay Hatten co-wrote the screenplay, and the plot is reminiscent of the horror elements of the precursor Capcom game. The purported logline is as follows:
“Bryan, a laid-back organ courier, is sent on a late-night delivery to Raccoon City General Hospital. En route through a snowy mountain road, he accidentally hits a strange woman with his car. She survives—but something is very wrong. As he tries to help, Bryan stumbles into a full-blown outbreak involving horrifying tentacle-based mutations and bio-engineered monstrosities.”
Austin Abrams plays the major role in Weapons, with Zach Cherry (Severance), Paul Walter Hauser (Cobra Kai), Johnno Wilson (I Love That for You), and the aforementioned Kali Reis rounding out the cast.
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Cregger, who has never seen any of the earlier films but is an avid consumer of the Resident Evil video games, has stated, “It’s gonna be not at all like Barbarian and Weapons. It’s going to be a rock ’em, sock ’em… it’s for me to play. And turn my brain off and just make an… Evil Dead II… get crazy with the camera. … It’s a weird, fun, wild story. This movie follows a person from point A to point B. It’s like a real time journey, where you just go deeper and deeper into the depths of Hell.”
Carte Blanche insinuates that he has been given total creative liberty for the project. Adding that Cregger was granted “the carte blanche to do whatever he wanted to do with that IP. With Resident Evil, we have had an incredible journey with one of the most successful international IPs of more than a billion dollars in box office for many years and now we are creating something new, not just a new story idea, but to allow a new generation to take the IP into their own hands and form something different.“
