Resident Evil is formally coming to TV. Netflix has ordered a scripted live-action adaptation of Capcom’s best-selling horror online game franchise that has beforehand given us six films with Milla Jovovich. Constantin Film, the German studio behind the Resident Evil movie collection, will produce the Resident Evil Netflix collection, with Supernatural co-showrunner Andrew Dabb on board as showrunner, govt producer, and author. Netflix has given its Resident Evil TV collection a primary season order of eight episodes, however no launch window has been set as but.
Like the movies, the Resident Evil Netflix collection may also inform a brand new story, and this one is cut up throughout two timelines. In the primary, 14-year-old sisters Jade and Billie Wesker have “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 realise that the town is more than it seems and their father may be concealing dark secrets. Secrets that could destroy the world.”
Meanwhile, the second timeline is about over 10 years right into a post-apocalyptic future the place lower than 15 million human survivors are left on Earth, who wrestle in opposition to “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.”
When the Wesker children transfer to New Raccoon City, the secrets and techniques they uncover would possibly simply be the top of the whole lot. Resident Evil, a brand new dwell motion collection based mostly on Capcom’s legendary survival horror franchise, is coming to Netflix. pic.twitter.com/XWh5XYxklD
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Bronwen Hughes (The Walking Dead) will direct and govt produce the primary two episodes of the Resident Evil Netflix collection. Dabb and Hughes’ fellow govt producers embrace Robert Kulzer and Oliver Berben of Constantin Film, and Mary Leah Sutton. Constantin Film CEO Martin Moszkowicz serves as producer.
Netflix and Constantin Film had been creating a Resident Evil collection since January last year, once they have been on the lookout for a showrunner. And now they’ve a discovered one within the aforementioned Supernatural alum.
Constantin has additionally been creating a movie reboot for 3 years, after the Jovovich-led collection, directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, got here to an in depth with 2016’s fittingly-titled Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. The franchise has grossed over $1.2 billion (about Rs. 8,830 crores) on the field workplace, essentially the most for any movie collection based mostly on a online game so far.
Resident Evil got here to life as a Capcom sport in 1996 and the franchise has offered greater than 100 million copies since. The subsequent entry — Resident Evil Village — is slated to launch in 2021 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X.
In a ready assertion, Dabb mentioned: “Resident Evil is my favourite game of all time. I’m incredibly excited to tell a new chapter in this amazing story and bring the first ever Resident Evil series to Netflix members around the world. For every type of Resident Evil fan, including those joining us for the first time, the series will be complete with a lot of old friends, and some things (bloodthirsty, insane things) people have never seen before.”
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