Netflix surprised horror fans today by ordering an eight-episode series based in the Resident Evil universe.
The live-action series aims for the drama-horror genre. Fans can bet that all the right Capcom notes will feature prominently in the series. Constantine Films produced all six films, and back the series as well.
Andrew Dab (Supernatural) will head the show, serving as written and executive producer of the series.
The Resident Evil series takes a different approach to storytelling, setting itself firmly in the past with one storyline, and the future with the other.
Check out the Resident Evil series synopsis direct from Netflix 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.
Resident Evil isn’t just your run-of-the-mill zombie franchise, it’s so much more than that.
Imagine The Walking Dead on steroids. There’s no better time to re-introduce a horror franchise where zombies and monsters, created from a virus, ravage the planet. It’s almost perfect, don’t you think?
Bronwen Hughes will direct and executive produce the first two episodes of the series. Robert Kulzer and Oliver Berben also serves as executive producers on the series.
[Variety]
