'Like Frodo Going Into Mordor': Zach Cregger's Resident Evil 'Feels Like 1 Gigantic Sequence' Following an 'Everyman' Character Burdened by a Sacred Mission

Weapons director Zach Cregger has said his Resident Evil movie will feel like "one gigantic sequence" that follows its regular guy protagonist Bryan as he undertakes a perilous journey "like Frodo going into Mordor." Cregger has spoken before about his take on Resident Evil deliberately avoiding the characters from Capcom's beloved survival horror series — so don't sit down in the theater expecting Leon S. Kennedy or Claire Redfield to turn up. Now, Cregger has discussed the game's main character Bryan (played by Weapons' Austin Abrams) in more detail — and said he was created to provide an alternative to the gun-toting, combat-tested characters who often are the protagonists of Resident Evil games. "The concept here is that we're following an idiot," Cregger told Empire. "Not that he's stupid, but he's not your typical game character, with no combat skills whatsoever and completely inept at survival. Bryan is very much an everyman who happens to be burdened with this kind of sacred mission that's going to take him into the heart of everything. It's kind of like Frodo going into Mordor." While still taking place in a version of Raccoon City (although seemingly one designed not to f