Resident Evil is turning live-action once again with a new reboot, so now comes the question of whether it can escape its campy but mediocre past.

A new Resident Evil movie is being developed by Barbarian director Zach Cregger, and it's said a bidding war has erupted from it.

With the confirmation that Zach Cregger is set to write and direct a new Resident Evil adaptation, question becomes what it should adapt. Read on and find out what that could be.

Zach Cregger, director of the wickedly twisty 2022 horror-thriller movie Barbarian, is now looking to write and direct a movie based on Capcom’s horror-survival game franchise Resident Evil. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the movie will be a “revamp” that will take Resident Evil to its horror roots and “be more faithful to the initial games.”

Multiple studios are reportedly in a bidding war for a film reboot of the Resident Evil movies, THR reports, and it has less to do with the rise of successful video game-based film projects than the guy who’s trying to bring the series back to theaters: Barbarian director Zach Cregger.

Zach Cregger will write and direct a new take on Resident Evil that reportedly has studios bidding against each other to land it.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Zach Cregger will write and direct a new Resident Evil reboot that sources say is "more faithful" to the games. Warner Bros, Netflix and others are currently bidding for it.

Based on the popular video game franchise, this new Resident Evil movie is set to reboot the series, focusing more on the survival horror roots of the earlier games. According to a report by THR, there is currently a bidding war for the franchise,