Resident Evil Director Confirms Fan Feedback Did Result in One Major Change, And He Doesn't Regret It
Test audiences liked the film but said it was too funny, prompting Cregger to strip out jokes before its theatrical release.
- On Sept 18, Sony Pictures releases Resident Evil, directed by Zach Cregger and starring Austin Abrams as Bryan, following his recent work on Barbarian and Weapons.
- Following the success of Barbarian, Cregger acknowledged he underestimated audience appetite for legacy character stories involving Leon and Kennedy, though he remains focused on managing his workload.
- The director's film Weapons grossed $270 million against a $38 million budget, featuring an Oscar-winning performance from Amy Madigan as Aunt Gladys.
- During testing for Resident Evil, Cregger stripped out jokes after discovering audiences found the film too funny, which helped refine the final cut.
- Describing The Flood as the final film of this career chapter, Cregger is already preparing the project while calling his recent Hollywood success 'very, very flattering.
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Resident Evil Director Confirms Fan Feedback Did Result in One Major Change, And He Doesn't Regret It
IMAGE COURTESY OF SONY PICTURES Fans of the Resident Evil games have had their concerns about the upcoming Zach Cregger film, and they have every right to. From a barely remembered Netflix reboot to the six Paul W.S. Anderson produced films, previous adaptations haven’t always had fealty to the games as a guiding light. Then again, when the Resident Evil […]
'They Thought It Was Too Funny': Zach Cregger Says He's Cut Most of the Jokes From His Resident Evil Movie, Following Test Screenings
Resident Evil director Zach Cregger says he's cut most of movie's jokes, after test audiences apparently found the film "too funny."
Zack Cregger Didn’t Want His ‘Resident Evil’ Film To Be Too Funny
Some of my favorite film adaptations try to break new ground. Changes are made. Characters are enhanced (or created altogether). The source material is respected but not treated like some precious thing that can never be molded (or even broken... Read more...
Zach Cregger says test audiences convinced him to cut most of Resident Evil's jokes
As a former sketch comedy guy who’s now found a second—and pretty inarguably more successful—life as a horror director, there’s a certain amount of comedy that’s endemic to the work of Zach Cregger. (Barbarian has basically everything to do with Justin Long, for instance, while you could argue that the extremely cathartic climax of Weapons is the punchline to what’s essentially been an entire movie’s worth of setup.) But fans expecting Cregger’s…
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