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Resident Evil movie reboot snapped up by Sony, and it already has a release date


The battle to reboot Capcom's Resident Evil franchise for the big screen is over, and Sony has been crowned the victor.…

Word of a Resident Evil movie reboot first surfaced back in January, with Zach Cregger - writer and director of 2022's wonderfully unpredictable Barbarian - attached to the project. And Sony's interest is particularly not surprising, given it was a major beneficiary of all that money under its previous deal to inflict Paul W. S. Anderson's Resident Evil films upon the masses. "I've been a rabid fan of these games for decades, and to be able to bring this amazing title to life is a true honor,” Cregger told Deadline following Sony's win.

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