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Zombie fiction is back – and who better to lead the waddling, rotting charge than the venerable sci-fi horror franchise resident Evil? Across 26 years, 14 consoles and 7 films – some of which were better than others – resident EvilThe dark, action-packed campiness has earned him a loyal following and a permanent place in video game legend. Now Netflix is trying some live-action resident Evil Adaptation, and the result seems to reach some interesting places.
For the uninitiated, the first Mainline games take place in and around a fictional Midwestern town called Raccoon City, which is the scene of several nefarious biological experiments conducted by the sinister biomedical group Umbrella Corporation. Most notable among their innovations is the T-Virus, a mutagenic agent responsible for all the zombies and other monsters running around threatening the protagonists. Some of these protagonists are from STARS, a special unit of the Raccoon City Police Department; others are civilians drawn into the proceedings by forces beyond their control, which is a fitting theme for a survival horror game. Attentive viewers will want to keep an eye out for these themes and concepts resident Evil releases.
The trailer begins with Hell: a flyover through what was once a city and is now a wasteland teeming with the crazed undead and the embattled survivors desperately struggling to escape. In voiceover, we hear an adult Jade explain that “they said the world ended in 2036”, the actual end of the world happened much earlier. The scene then changes to a clean, bright city surrounded by greenery. A sign greets the lone car that approaches: “Welcome to New Raccoon City.”
A new voiceover takes over: As the younger Jade and her sister Billie explore their new home, a calm female voice extols the Umbrella Corporation, “a company beset by scandal” that is “now trying to reinvent itself.” Both the voice and the recording of the town have a spooky, Stepford-esque vibe: too clean, calm, and perfect to be entirely real. The impact is amplified when we catch a glimpse of the narrator: presumably some sort of representative of the Umbrella Corporation, she says with a mild smile: “The things we’re working on today – they’re going to change the world. ”
Billie holds what looks like a strange caterpillar up to the camera and watches it crawl over her hand. Then everything changes abruptly: the sidewalk cracks, red dirt explodes upwards, and we see Jade running from her life from a giant, monstrous worm. This is the beginning of the end of the world the grown Jade spoke of. “We have a problem,” says her father, Albert, as we see a lab rat break the glass in her cage; then we cut to him as he soberly explains, “The drug contains a T-virus. The T-Virus can spawn monsters,” he explains, and as he speaks we see some of those monsters: shambling undead humans, a vicious undead dog. Billie seems threatened by something, and in the next shot she appears dead or unconscious; We see young Jade screaming in fear. More unsettling images flash by: of Billie, other survivors, and various monsters, until we see the adult Jade again, covered in blood. She hisses an expletive, gets up, and heads to the junkyard with a chainsaw. The next few scenes show Jade and other people fighting back against the zombified hordes, punctuated by the series tagline: “Evil has evolved.”
When and where will Resident Evil be released?
resident Evil Coming exclusively to Netflix on July 14, 2022. There are no plans for a physical release just yet – that may depend on audience reception of the new series.
What is the plot of Resident Evil?
The story takes place in two different years. In 2022, sisters Billie and Jade Wesker move to New Raccoon City with their father Albert, who is a biotechnologist of sorts. Though their new home may seem idyllic, it soon proves to be a nightmare when the Umbrella Corporation, responsible for a mass outbreak of T-Virus zombies over 20 years ago, launches a new anti-anxiety drug called Joy, which happens to contain the same virus. Predictably, there is an outbreak, and in chaos some Unspecified but terrible things are happening to Billie. Jade escapes with her life but without her sister.
In London in 2036, we catch up with Jade, one of just 15 million people alive in a world all but destroyed by the zombie apocalypse. What her goals are outside of “survival” depends on what exactly happened to Billie, as well as what happened to her father, Albert Wesker, who helped engineer this crisis and whose fate is as yet unknown.
Who are the creators of Resident Evil?
The first two episodes are directed by the series executive producer Bronwen Hughesknown for her work on other live-action zombie series the Walking Dead as well as Better call Saul. However, the focus of the project is the writer Andrew Dabbpreviously known for his work on supernatural.
Who is in the cast of Resident Evil?
Albert Wesker slips into the role of the series antagonist Lance Reddickpreviously known for his role as the enigmatic Charon in the John Wick series of films. He has also appeared in White House is out of action as well as bringing his singing talents to the video game Horizon: Forbidden West, Action and gaming are no strangers to him. He has joined Ella Balinska as Jade Wesker (Perform Sweetheart Run, Charlie’s Angel), and Siena Agudong as Billie Wesker (Not a good nick, Upside down magic).
joins them Tamara Smart (Are you afraid of the dark?), Adeline Rudolph (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Paola Nuñez (bad boys for life), Ahad Raza Mir, Connor Gosattiand Turlough Convery (Belfast).
How is Resident Evil connected to the game franchise?
According to Andrew Dabb, the story is told in the mainline resident Evil games is the canon of this new series. In particular, the 2022 part of the story appears to take place around the same time as the newest game, 2021 Resident Evil Village. Fans of the series might find this odd since Albert Wesker is canonically dead in the game series. As Dabb told EW in an interview,
“I don’t want to give too much away, but I will say that the explanation for why Wesker is the way he is and why he’s alive goes hand in hand.”
Between that and Raccoon City’s recall — the original Raccoon City was destroyed by a nuclear warhead in 1998 as the government attempted to end the T-Virus outbreak once and for all — it’s clear there’s still plenty of history to be revealed will. If you’re new to this franchise, though, don’t be intimidated — Dabb has gone to great lengths to make sure he gets it resident Evil can be enjoyed by everyone from newbies to seasoned veterans.