'Resident Evil' Is Becoming a Live-Action Netflix Series

'Resident Evil' Is Becoming a Live-Action Netflix Series
By Josiah Hughes
Published Aug 27, 2020
Netflix has picked up eight episodes of a new, live-action Resident Evil series.

The show is being produced by Constantin Films, the same company that produced all six films in the franchise.

Andrew Dabb, who served as a showrunner on Supernatural, will write and executive produce the series.

"Resident Evil is my favourite game of all time," Dabb said in a statement. "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."

The series will unfold over two timelines. Here's how they work, as per Variety:

In the first timeline, 14-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.

In the second timeline, well over a decade into the future, there are less than 15 million people left on Earth. And more than six billion monsters — people and animals infected with the T-virus. Jade, now 30, struggles to survive in this New World, while the secrets from her past — about her sister, her father and herself — continue to haunt her.

See an official announcement from Netflix below.
 

The news comes as Resident Evil gets set to release its latest intalment, Resident Evil 8: Village, which is expected out in 2021 on PS5.