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Weapons and Resident Evil director Zach Cregger is swtich genres for his next movie

It's called The Flood, it's coming in 2028, and it's 'maybe the best thing I ever wrote' Zach Cregger, the red-hot horror director behind Weapons, Barbarian, and this year's Resident Evil reboot, is switching genres to science fiction for his next project. It's called The Flood, and it's an original movie that Cregger has written and will direct. (No, it's apparently not about the invasive alien race from the Halo games.) No details about the movie have been revealed, but it has a studio and a release date: Warner Bros., which backed Weapons, has scheduled The Flood for Aug. 11, 2028. Steven Spielberg is also involved through his production company Amblin Entertainment. Cregger has spoken about the script before without giving anything away. In 2025 he told the Big Picture podcast that it is "my favorite thing" and "maybe the best thing I ever wrote." He wrote it after filming his breakout Barbarian but before shooting Weapons, and assumed he'd never get to make it, thinking, "I'll never direct this, so I'm just going to say 'who gives a shit' and not care — which is, by the way, the best attitude." The Flood isn't the only 2028 movie Cregger is working on at Warner Bros. The studi

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Weapons and Resident Evil director Zach Cregger is swtich genres for his next movie

It's called The Flood, it's coming in 2028, and it's 'maybe the best thing I ever wrote' Zach Cregger, the red-hot horror director behind Weapons, Barbarian, and this year's Resident Evil reboot, is switching genres to…

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It’s almost too obvious. A movie starts with a big, action-packed war scene where a lot of people die. Of course, you think of Steven Spielberg’s 1998 film, Saving Private Ryan. It’s so on point. So easy to figure out. And so, there’s no…

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