[This story contains major spoilers for Zach Cregger‘s Resident Evil.] Austin Abrams and Zach Cregger keep knocking them dead. In 2023, the actor stuck with the writer-director after he lost his initial Weapons cast amid strike-related scheduling chaos. Abrams had attractive opportunities he could have pursued, but he wanted to work with the filmmaker who famously cut, out of nowhere, to Justin Long singing his way down PCH to kick off the second act of Barbarian (2022), the horror film that launched Cregger’s ascent toward becoming the top genre filmmaker working today. That instinct to see Weapons through paid off handsomely. Abrams…
