‘Resident Evil’ Star Austin Abrams On Playing The Franchise's Most Unprepared Hero

‘Resident Evil’ Star Austin Abrams On Playing The Franchise's Most Unprepared Hero

Move over Ethan Winters and Grace Ashcroft, there’s a far more ill-prepared protagonist entering the world of Resident Evil in Austin Abrams’ medical courier Bryan. Director Zach Cregger reteams with his Weapons actor for an original story set during the initial outbreak in Raccoon City, one that sends a guy who doesn’t even have chains on his tires into the snowy mountains to complete an order only to find himself in a world of survival horror.…

Zach Cregger Reveals What Resident Evil Is Really About — And It's Not The Zombies

Far from your usual zombie horror, director and co-writer Zach Cregger uses this as a blueprint to dive into the metaphorical context of Austin Abrams's Bryan's personal life crisis. Light spoilers ahead for the opening of Resident Evil. Zach Cregger Reveals What Resident Evil Is Really About — And It’s Not The Zombies Written by Casey Chong for Fortress of Solitude

Zach Cregger drops Resident Evil’s heroes and hands the outbreak to a courier

The survival-horror series that Paul W.S. Anderson turned into a two-decade action franchise comes back leaner and stranger. Zach Cregger throws out Leon and Jill and stakes the entire outbreak on a medical courier having the worst night of his life, with Austin Abrams as the nobody at its centre.

After more than 20 years, it's finally working: Resident Evil is getting the video game adaptation that the horror franchise deserves

(Image source: Constantin Film / Editing GIGA)After several attempts at the cinema, it should finally work: Zach Cregger doesn’t tell a well-known Resident Evil story – and that’s exactly how it hits the DNA of the games.Since 1996, Resident Evil has been one of the biggest names in survival horror. Capcom’s games have not only spawned numerous sequels, spin-offs and remakes, but have also long since made the leap to Hollywood.However, this tran…