‘Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City’ Releases First Look of Reboot

Sony’s reboot of the hit zombie video game and popular film franchise will be coming to theaters November 24. Today IGN exclusively revealed the first look at the Johannes Roberts directed film Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. The last franchise focused on Milla Jovovich‘s Alice, but this time around the story will focus on the characters of Claire Redfield, Leon S. Kennedy, Jill Valentine, and Lisa Trevor.

“I wanted to go back to the horror of it all.” Roberts told IGN. “I wanted scares and atmosphere rather than full-on action. I think fans of the game felt the same. I wanted scares and atmosphere rather than full-on action. I think fans of the game felt the same.”

“They wanted to see the iconic characters and locations and feel that the movie was more in line with the Resident Evil game world so that’s really why we chose to go in that direction. We worked hand in hand with Capcom on this movie to the point that we actually got blueprints from them on the designs of the Spencer Mansion and Raccoon police station in order to recreate them as perfectly as we could. We even have the exact artwork up on the mansion walls. Capcom saw it for the first time the other day and was so happy and excited.”

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The film synopsis is as followed: “Returning to the terrifying roots of the massively popular franchise, fan and filmmaker Johannes Roberts brings the games of the billion dollar franchise and the most successful video game adaptation in history to life for a whole new generation of fans.”

“Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.”

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City stars includes Kaya Scodelario (Crawl) as Claire Redfield, Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp) as Jill Valentine, Robbie Amell (The Babysitter) as Chris Redfield, Tom Hopper (The Umbrella Academy) as Albert Wesker, Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap) as Leon S. Kennedy, Neal McDonough (Yellowstone) as William Birkin, and Donal Logue (“Gotham”) as Chief Irons.

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City will be releasing theatrically November 24, and will jump start a new Resident Evil inspired universe. Netflix also is currently developing a new Resident Evil project but has not released any information about it at this time. Thats all the detials we have for now, be sure to follow ScaryNerd for more of all things horror, sci-fi and more.

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