We love a good bit of Resident Evil absurdity here at Push Square, and so the live-action series based on the franchise just announced by Netflix sounds right up our alley. The streaming service has greenlighted eight hour-long episodes as part of a first season, written by Andrew Dabb of Supernatural fame. The show will tell an entirely original story based on two new faces to the franchise across separate timelines, and it's all heavily linked to series mainstay Albert Wesker.
The official Netflix synopsis is as follows:
In the first timeline, 14-year-old sisters Jade and Billie Wesker are moved to New Raccoon City. A manufactured, corporate town, forced on them right as adolescence is in full swing. But the more time they spend there, the more they come to realize that the town is more than it seems and their father may be concealing dark secrets. Secrets that could destroy the world.
Cut to 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 — people 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.
It's that second timeline that really excites us -- seeing the human race do battle against an overwhelming undead force is a scenario we'd like to see media explore more. In a press release, Andrew Dabb said: "Resident Evil is my favorite game of all time. I’m incredibly excited to tell a new chapter in this amazing story and bring the first ever Resident Evil series to Netflix members around the world. For every type of Resident Evil fan, including those joining us for the first time, the series will be complete with a lot of old friends, and some things (bloodthirsty, insane things) people have never seen before."
It sounds like this one is in pretty safe hands then. Are you just as excited as we are about a live-action Resident Evil series on Netflix? Get hyped in the comments below.
[source polygon.com]
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Well, that's something. At least it sounds like it might be more horror focused and not like the movies. It's still being co-produced by the studio that did those movies, so it's good to be wary.
It’s gonna be amazingly terrible. Honestly down for that.
So the walking dead?
Sounds terrible.
Same nonsense that’s been done 100 times before.
Taking tiny bits from the narrative of the game and selling it on just the name.
Could have used storylines from the games for far better success
Learnt nothing from the movies
... No thanks. Just sounds plain awful to me 😅
When I read eight hour long episodes, my immediate thought was 'like hell I'm going to watch one episode for eight hours.'
It's still early here in Arizona.
If you are going to make a show about resident evil make it about resident evil.
You Know Of All The People's Kids They Could Be Why Wesker It Would Have Been Much More Interesting If They Were Spencer's Kids Instead Imagine Being The Kids Of The Man Co Founded The Umbrella Corparation And Spent 50 Years Causing All Kinds Of Mayhem All To Become a God Through a Virus.
@Enuo you're not alone, man. It's 4pm here and I had to re-read it a few times before my brain accepted it.
How about actually retelling the whole RE story timeline? If you take in all the games and tie them together you've got a great deal of material that could be told across several series.
RE0 - RE1 - series 1
RE2 - RE3 - RECV - series 2
RE4 - RE5 - series 3
RE6 - series 4
REREV1 - REV2 - series 5
RE7 - RE8 - series 6
There you go, sorted! Anyone else think it could be done in a better order?
@Futureshark Add In Resident Evil Survivor In Between 3 And Code Veronica And Dead Aim Between Code Veronica And 4
If it's not based on the actual game's plot then I have (Resident Evil) Zero faith in this. Apparently no lessons have been learned from the crappy Anderson movies
It sounds indescribably terrible.
Resident Evil: Stranger Things.
That sounds pretty horrible. Why don't they do an 8 episode arc based off the first game. Closed mansion setting. Slow build. And maybe cast someone cool to play Chris, like Idris Elba or Henry Cavill. For Jill, I would cast someone like Lauren Cohan. Oh well.
Sounds good! I like that we’ll meet new characters but with a tie-in to Wesker, and also following the multiple timelines. Definitely hoping it brings in more slow-burning horror though, and less of the action-schlock that Anderson made a norm for the series. Fingers crossed here...
They should've done a comedy with Barry Burton.
Sounds very promising if the director's fave game really is Resi Evil.
Glad I cancelled my Netflix this month, looks like they’re still going to be pumping out more garbage in the future.
If you make a Resi series I just want the characters from the games, thank you very much
This will be hilarious! RE is my fav franchise but let’s be honest people, the animated films were cheesy as hell.
At least they were 10 times better than the film series hahah.
@ApostateMage like a sitcom where he’s a single father raising a young Moira and living with crazy uncle Wesker. Ohhhhh the hijinx
Netflix's current strategy seems to be just throwing in young teenage girls into well known IPs and just hoping for the best.
Wish they just remade the first game into a TV series for god's sake, now we're stuck with a terrible Stranger Things ripoff.
While I'm a bit puzzled and confused by the premise (I'm guessing/hoping they're not more of Albert's kids but kids of another Wesker?), I'm not sure how it not being a straight game adaptation is a bad thing. The reason the movies failed wasn't because they weren't straight adaptations (in fact, the second film, Apocalypse came pretty close to being one) but because they did do just wasn't that good (though I suspect that wasn't really the goal, given how consistent the films were).
Not sure i can just sit there for 8 hours at a time
Can they just please make a new TPP Resident Evil game, that’s all I ask
I've only played Resident Evil 5 and 6, so I'll probably end up enjoying this NetFlix series.
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