I hope this isn’t Chris’ script…
Well, years of speculation have paid off… for someone at least. Because Netflix has announced a live-action Resident Evil series. It’s described as featuring two different stories across two timelines. Here’s the synopsis:
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.
They also tweeted out an image of the first script via their NX twitter account:
Okay, so, first thoughts. Clearly, once again Wesker has had children before the Redfield bloodline could be continued:
Two, I don’t know what the fuck the fascination with having a Resident Evil story be set in a post-apocalypse setting is. You know, considering the fact that the point of all of the games is that they avert said apocalypse. You know, because that kinda kills the scope of any followup you plan to make.
Regardless, no cast has been announced yet. But the show is being run by showrunner and writer Andrew Dabb (Supernatural) and director Bronwen Hughes (The Walking Dead), with Hughes directing thefirst two episodes. Also, the usual gander of executive producers Netflix shows have: Robert Kulzer and Oliver Berben of Constantin Film, and Mary Leah Sutton.
Dabb was quoted as such on the development of the series:
Resident Evil is my favorite 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.
Andrew Dabb
Source: IGN
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