Resident Evil Film Teased As A Game-Like Roller Coaster Packed With "Nonstop" Action

As post-production continues on a new live-action Resident Evil movie, more details have gun to surface on the Zach Cregger-directed film. The filmmaker behind Barbarian and Weapons was given "carte blanche" to approach the project in any way he saw fit, and producer Roy Lee described the project as a "nonstop action" flick designed to make you feel like you're playing a Resident Evil game."It's one of these movies that it's different than Weapons," Lee said to Collider. "It's like a roller coaster ride of nonstop action, of just showing a point of view of a character and an original story in the world of Raccoon City, where it's like the experience of watching the movie is similar to the experience you would get playing the game, is what Zach is trying to do."Aside from one memorable first-person sequence in 2005's Doom, video game film adaptations tend to keep far away from gamified storytelling. Lee added that Cregger is bringing his talent for composing beautiful shots to Resident Evil, and he believes that audiences will be impressed once the end credits roll. "It's just that he's definitely spent a lot of time prepping various shots that will impress the audience in ways they've not seen things before," Lee explained.Continue Reading at GameSpot