Revealed the official plot of Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, the reboot directed by Johannes Roberts, the director of 47 Meters and The Strangers: Prey at Night.
Sony Pictures also postponed to November 24, 2021 the release date that had previously been set for September 3.
As previously stated by the director, the adaptation will focus on the first two video games and will be faithful to the main setting of the famous video game saga: in fact, everything will take place in 1998 in Raccoon City. The film will also feature links to Capcom's classic survival horror games.
Johannes Roberts ha aggiunto: "With this film I wanted to go back to the first two original video games and recreate the terrifying experience I had when I first played them. At the same time I wanted to tell the story of a small, decadent American town.".
The new Resident Evil è interpretato da Kaya Scodelario (Crawl), Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp), Robbie Amell, Tom Hopper (The Umbrella Academy), Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap), Neal McDonough, Donal Logue (Silent Night), quest'ultimo nel ruolo del sadico e violento poliziotto Brian Irons.
Plot: Raccoon City, una volta sede del colosso farmaceutico Umbrella Corporation, è ora ridotta ad una cittadina decadente del Midwest. L'esodo della compagnia l'ha ridotta ad un luogo desolato che ospita, sotto la superficie, qualcosa di estremamente malvagio.
Awakened to evil, the citizens will undergo a terrible mutation, and a small group of survivors must join forces in order to uncover the truth behind the Umbrella Corporation and try to survive the night.
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson in 2002, Resident Evil is the first film in the movie saga inspired by the survival horror video game series of the same name produced by Capcom.
The heroine of the franchise is played by Milla Jovovich.
The 2002 film has five sequels: Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), Resident Evil: Extinction (2007), Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010), Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) e Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2017).
