Streaming giant Netflix ordered a live-action TV show based on the Resident Evil computer games. The first season will consist of eight episodes. Andrew Dabb, who previously produced Supernatural, will write this series. Filmmaker Bronwen Hughes (The Journey is the Destination, Stander, episodes of TV shows like Breaking Bad and Walking Dead) will direct the show’s first two episodes. Constantin Film, the company behind Resident Evil movies, will produce the series as well.
According to the GeekTyrant, the show will feature two timelines. The first one follows teenage sisters Jade and Billie Wesker as their family moves to New Racoon City, a corporate town hiding sinister secrets. The second timeline takes place over a decade later in an apocalyptic future in which T-virus mutated most of humanity and animals into monsters.
Resident Evil is a popular horror video game franchise. The first Resident Evil game was created by Shinji Mikami and Tokuro Fujiwara and released in 1996. Since then, it had at least eight sequels, three remakes, and a dozen spinoffs. But many people probably heard of Resident Evil thanks to a series of live-action movies directed by Paul W. S. Anderson featuring actress and model Milla Jovovich. Anderson directed the first Resident Evil film back in 2002. Over the next 18 years, five sequels followed.
