We’re going back to Raccoon City. The Resident Evil Netflix series has been officially announced by the streaming service after reports last year indicated that a live-action show was in operation. But here’s the kicker: this is a whole new era, one where the T-Virus has taken over.
According to Netflix, the Resident Evil series will run on two timelines. “In the first timeline, fourteen-year-old sisters Jade and Billie Wesker are relocating to New Raccoon City. A manufacturing business, focused on them, because adolescence is in full swing. But the more time they spend there, the more they realize that “the city is more than it seems and her father may be hiding dark secrets. Secrets that could destroy the world.”
The second timeline has a serious time jump, 16 years into the future and with many more zombies on the scene. “There are less than fifteen million people left on earth,” reads the synopsis of the second timeline. “And more than six billion monsters – humans 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. “
That, her father is definitely Albert Wesker, right? If so, this is one of the farthest leaps forward in Resi-canon in the history of the series. More iconic characters (and enemies) from the series would even be on the way.
Showrunner Andrew Dabb, who previously worked on Supernatural, said: “I’m incredibly excited to tell a new chapter in this great story and bring the first Resident Evil series to Netflix members around the world. For every type of Resident Evil fan, including those who join us for the first time, the series will be complete with many old friends, and some things (bloodthirsty, insane things) people have never seen before. “
No release date of casting yet – it’s clearly very early days – but we to do knows the Resident Evil Netflix series will, for now, consist of eight-hour-long episodes. In the meantime, watch some of the best shows on Netflix.
