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Resident Evil director Zach Cregger defends major change in new film

gamingSep 13, 20264695

With his new Resident Evil film nearing release, director Zach Cregger publicly defended a big change he made to the story, saying he altered an important element to suit the film's tone. Conversation homed in on the movie's original-script approach that centers Austin Abrams as a courier during a modern outbreak and on Cregger's assertion that zombies are not the main focus. Some highlighted that the film is not a Leon story, others leaned into the movie's darkly comic survival-horror feel and even referenced the Mansion Basement theme as a touchstone. The moment crystallizes around whether this new, 90-minute vision counts as Resident Evil and how Cregger's Barbarian pedigree shapes that choice.

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