BlooodyDisgusting says Sony revealed the release date for its Resident Evil reboot – September 3, 2021.
British horror filmmaker Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down, The Strangers: Prey at Night) directed the film and wrote the script using the first two computer games as his inspiration. The cast will feature Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp) and Kaya Scodelario (Crawl) in lead roles, alongside Robbie Amell (The Babysitter), Lily Gao (The Expanse), Tom Hopper (The Umbrella Academy), Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap), Donal Logue (Gotham), and Neal McDonough (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow).
Mind you, this isn’t the only Resident Evil project in the works. As we reported last year, Netflix is developing a Resident Evil live-action series. Andrew Dabb, one of the producers behind Supernatural, will write this series. Bronwen Hughes (Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead) will direct the show’s first two episodes. Netflix is also working on an anime series titled Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, scheduled to premiere sometime this year.
Resident Evil – titled Biohazard in Japan – is a popular series of survival horror computer games by Capcom. Since the 1990s, there have been almost a dozen sequels, not counting spinoffs and remakes. Thomas W. S. Anderson directed the first Resident Evil film in 2002. Over the next fifteen years, he either directed or produced another five sequels.
