RESIDENT EVIL Trailer Teaser 2022

Resident Evil has once again received the adaptation treatment. But we’re expanding beyond the world as we know it for this one! In Netflix’s upcoming Resident Evil, we’ll be exploring the apocalypse like never before. If you haven’t had a chance to check out the trailer just yet, give it a look.

Meet Billie (Seina Agudong) and Jade (Tamara Smart). You already know their father, one Albert Wesker (Lance Reddick). They’re new to New Raccoon City, and seem to live in a world that’s managed to move on from the horrors of 1998 and the outbreak that took over Raccoon City Original Edition™.

As you can see, Netflix’s Resident Evil will take place across two timelines. We meet young Billie and Jade in 2022, while the other half of the story takes place in 2036.

A New Take on Resident Evil
The split timeline will serve a purpose. Showrunner Andrew Dabb wanted to take a new look at the zombie apocalypse. We see a lot of the proverbial end of the world in media, but diving into “what the world would look like when it’s come to terms with what happened,” was important to Dabb. “We would adapt to a zombie outbreak. It may not look pretty, but we would be able to do it,” he said during our interview.

That new take didn’t mean sacrificing Resident Evil canon, though. Raccoon City was still nuked in 1998 and Albert Wesker still fell into a volcano that was then RPGed. Given Wesker’s very obvious presence in this series, fans will definitely have questions as the series unfolds. Dabb was tight lipped on how Wesker’s in New Raccoon City with two daughters after his untimely end, but did note that the 2022 version is fun to build on as a “blank slate,” and noted that despite remaining in the land of the living, Wesker isn’t alive through silly means like some kind of lava proof vest or something.

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