Zach Cregger Earning $20M to Direct ‘Resident Evil’ — Joins Scorsese, Cameron, Nolan and Tarantino — World of Reel

Creggers’ Resident Evil on the way

With Zach Cregger’s new movie, Weapons, opening to acclaim and financial success, his next project is already on deck and it’s a return to an old, gooey friend, notes Alasdair Stuart. Cregger has been confirmed as the writer and director for the new Resident Evil movie. Based on the iconic series of games following various hapless survivors battling against (at first anyway) the undead genetic monstrosities released by the Umbrella Corporation, …

Zach Cregger Earning $20M to Direct ‘Resident Evil’ — Joins Scorsese, Cameron, Nolan and Tarantino — World of Reel

While Brady Corbet continues to claim that he’s “broke,” and that’s despite directing “The Brutalist,” a three-time Oscar winning film, there’s the other end of the spectrum.For a director, breaking into Hollywood’s “$20 Million Club” is extremely rare. There’s only a handful of filmmakers who command an upfront payday so large that the check alone could bankroll three Sundance darlings.Peter Jackson set the modern benchmark back in 2005 with “K…