A new series based on the popular game franchise, Resident Evil, is coming to Netflix.
In a social media post, NX teased the upcoming show with a photo of the screenplay for its pilot episode titled Welcome to New Raccoon City. They also revealed that it will be an 8-episode series to be helmed by Andrew Dabb (Supernatural), with its first two episodes to be directed by Bronwen Hughes (The Walking Dead).
When the Wesker kids move to New Raccoon City, the secrets they uncover might just be the end of everything. Resident…
Posted by NX on Thursday, August 27, 2020
The show will tell a “brand new story across two timeline,” Netflix revealed. Check out its synopsis below:
“In the first timeline, fourteen-year-old sisters Jade and Billie Wesker are moved to New Raccoon City. A manufactured, corporate town, forced on them right as adolescence is in full swing. But the more time they spend there, the more they come to realize that the town is more than it seems and their father may be concealing dark secrets. Secrets that could destroy the world.
“Cut to the second timeline, well over a decade into the future: there are less than fifteen million people left on Earth. And more than six billion monsters — people and animals infected with the T-virus. Jade, now thirty, struggles to survive in this New World, while the secrets from her past – about her sister, her father and herself – continue to haunt her.”
The first Resident Evil game from Capcom was released in 1996, and since then the franchise expanded to become one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time. It was also adapted into a six-film franchise produced by Constantin Film, the same studio that will be making this new series.
More details about the show’s cast and release date are yet to be revealed.
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Homestream images from the NX Facebook page and Resident Evil website.
