Resident Evil 2 News

The Resident Evil movies have their defenders - and, okay, fine, they're not that bad - but there's little arguing that they have very little connection to the games they're theoretically based on. Now a reboot of the film series is coming, and it's actually going to draw from the original games this time around.

Johannes Roberts will write and direct "an official origin story adaptation with faithful ties to Capcom's classic survival horror games. This story is set in 1998 on a fateful night in Raccoon City", as Deadline reports. Producer Robert Kulzer says "we felt compelled to return to the year 1998, to explore the secrets hidden in the walls of the Spencer Mansion and Raccoon City".

The film's already got its main cast, too. Robbie Amell of Upload plays Chris Redfield, Tom Hopper of The Umbrella Academy plays Wesker, Kaya Scodelario of Maze Runner plays Claire Redfueld, Hannah John-Kamen plays Jill Valentine, Avan Jogia of Zombieland: Double Tap plays Leon Kennedy, and Neal Mcdonough of Yellowstone plays William Birkin.

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Netflix has officially announced the production of a Resident Evil series. The eight-episode season will reportedly feature twin sisters Jade and Billie Wesker, and has Supernatural's Andrew Dabb in charge of writing.

According to Netflix's NX channel, the series is live action and will feature eight one-hour episodes in its initial season. There's no word yet on plans for any subsequent seasons for the horror game's small screen adaptation. The first two episodes are being directed by Bronwen Hughes, who has directed episodes of The Walking Dead, Better Call Saul, Hawaii Five-0, and others.

One synopsis posted to Twitter says the series will be split across two timelines. In one, the Wesker sisters move to New Raccoon City, which is a company town where not everything is as it seems - and they begin to have suspicions about what their father (presumably Albert Wesker, who last appeared in Resident Evil: Revelations 2) is up to. The second timeline is said to be set in the near future, following an apocalyptic T-virus event that has spread across the world, infecting more than six billion people and animals and leaving only about 15 million living humans on Earth.

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