The very first trailer for the new live-action series resident Evil has just been unveiled by Netflix. Post-apocalyptic atmosphere and scents of blood are on the menu.
One year later Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City and Infinite Darkness.
We stayed on Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, released on November 24, 2021 in cinemas. A film not really well made, which – although the whim Milla Jovovich is finally over – did not honor the cult characters of the license (Léon as a victim, played by Avan Jogia in the lead).
We knew that a series was going to see the light of day on the side of Netflix, which intends to capitalize on one of the most lucrative licenses in the world of video games, a year after the animated series. Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness.
A bloody trailer and a different universe
But it will be in live action that this new series soberly baptized resident Evil will see the light of day and which intends to impose its own universe. Exit the attack on the white house, Racoon City and its police station or even the mansion perched in the Arklay mountains, and therefore place in a whole new universe since the action will take place in London in 2036, when the invasion of zombies has already wreaked havoc for 14 years.
It is through this very first trailer unveiled by Netflix that we understand that nothing, or almost nothing, will have to do with the eponymous license. If it will be abouta city called “New Raccoon City“which seems to be reconstructed after past events, from Umbrella or even from a virus (Virus T?), again developed in laboratories, the action will therefore take place prior to its creation in 2022, then in 2036 in London, after an ellipsis of more than ten years.
During 8 episodes, it will be a question of following two sisters and their father during his two separate periods. So there will really be no connection to the flagship license, other than what seems to be a postlogy? Showrunner Andrew Dabb responds by stating that the games are canon with the series, and that the events of these are therefore taken into account in this new project.
This very nervous and bloody trailer launches the communication of the series in live action expected for next July 14 on the red N.
