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Some 28 years since first arriving on the Sony PlayStation, and set some 14 years in the future, a live-action Resident Evil series is finally coming our way this summer.
Confused? Don’t be. Netflix just dropped the first three teaser images, depicting a vial of the T-Virus and Umbrella Corp.’s Joy antidepressant, for its live-action series adaptation of the mega-popular video game, which will premiere July 14.
Here’s the logline:
Year 2036 – 14 years after a deadly virus caused a global apocalypse, Jade Wesker fights for survival in a world overrun by the blood-thirsty infected and insane creatures. In this absolute carnage, Jade is haunted by her past in New Raccoon City, by her father’s chilling connections to the Umbrella Corporation but mostly by what happened to her sister, Billie.
Lance Reddick stars as Albert Wesker, introduced in the video game as a triple agent posing as the leader of the Raccoon City police department’s S.T.A.R.S. team. Who is he really, though?
Find out as Reddick stars alongside a cast that also includes Ella Balinska, Tamara Smart, Siena Agudong, Adeline Rudolph, Paola Nuñez, Ahad Raza Mir, Connor Gossatti, and Turlough Convery.
With more than 10 editions and multiple spin-offs, the Resident Evil video-game franchise has sold more than 123 million units for Capcom. Netflix previously released an animated series last year, Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, which takes place during the events between the games Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5.
This eight-episode live-action series reboot picks up in 2036, after the timeline depicted within the video games. Andrew Dabb (Supernatural) is the showrunner, and it’s produced by Constantin Film.
It’s not connected to the six live-action films written and produced by Paul W.S. Anderson between 2002 and 2016, which starred Milla Jovovich as Alice, because Alice was never a part of the video games. Nor is it connected to Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, which came out on VOD this January, and had Tom Hopper in the role of Wesker.
Resident Evil will premiere July 14, 2022, on Netflix.
