A live action “Resident Evil” series has been picked up on Netflix.
The streamer has given an eight-episode order to the one-hour series, which is based on the franchise of the video game Capcom of the same name. Constantin Films, which produced the franchise of six films based on the games, will serve as the studio behind the series. News that a “Resident Evil” series was in development at Netflix was first reported last year.
Andrew Dabb will serve as writer, executive producer and showrunner. Dabb recently served as showrunner on multiple seasons of the hit CW series “Supernatural,” which will end this fall after 15 seasons.
“‘Resident Evil’ is my favorite game of all time,” Dabb said. “I’m incredibly excited to tell a new chapter in this great story and bring the very first ‘Resident Evil’ series to Netflix members around the world. For every kind of ‘Resident Evil’, 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. ”
The story of the series will unfold over two timelines: In the first timeline, fourteen-year-old sisters Jade and Billie Wesker are moved to New Raccoon City. A manufactured business city, on its own, 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 their father may be hiding dark secrets. Secrets that can destroy the world.
In 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 – 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.
Bronwen Hughes will direct and execute the first two episodes of the series. Together with Dabb, Robert Kulzer and Oliver Berben of Constantin Film will also produce executive, as will Mary Leah Sutton. Constantin Film CEO Martin Moszkowicz will produce.
The first “Resident Evil” game was released in 1996. Since then, the game and the multiple new entries in the franchise have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. In addition, the film franchise has grossed more than $ 1.2 billion worldwide. There are also animated films “Resident Evil”, comic books, novels, and theme park attractions.
