Live-Action Resident Evil Netflix Series Premieres on July 14 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 17 March 2022 / 1,559 Views
Netflix via Twitter announced the live-action Resident Evil series will premiere this summer on July 14.
"Evil has evolved," reads the tweet from Netflix. "Resident Evil is coming to Netflix July 14."
The series stars Lance Reddick as Albert Wesker, as well as Ella Balinska, Tamara Smart, Siena Agudong, Adeline Rudolph and Paola Nuñez.
Andrew Dabb is the showrunner, writer, and executive producer on the series. Mary Leah Sutton is also a writer on the show, while Constantin Film's Robert Kulzer and Oliver Berben are also executive producers.
evil has evolved. RESIDENT EVIL is coming to Netflix July 14. pic.twitter.com/6uvDsSdRw2
— Netflix Geeked (@NetflixGeeked) March 17, 2022
Netflix did release a Resident Evil animated series last year called Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness. It has four parts that up to a total of 105 minutes. It stars Nick Apostolides, Stephanie Panisello, Ray Chase.
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My prediction: the RE show will suck.
Incidentally, I'm guessing the Halo show will be the best video game show ever made. But, that's such an incredibly low bar that even being the best ever still leaves room for it to suck.
so its been a week, we have the premier, and tbh i dont think this comment has aged particularly well. the last few years have been pretty good for game tv shows. castlevania and arcane both have some incredible moments, and I also thought Cuphead was pretty funny. Besides that, a few anime and maybe the odd Sonic cartoon are also alright, but the bar has been raised now imo. Halo being mid isn't especially notable now that major studios are putting in the effort
I was hoping this series would be a good representation of the games but right out of the gate I think they have already ruined it.
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nah he's not attached at all. the showrunner attached is a guy named Andrew Dabb, who was basically the Supernatural guy from season 5 until it ended on season 15. He's done work in comics as well, but I've never read any of em. He was attached to some Ghostbusters comic, GI Joe, Atomika (which was a kickstarter project), and something Vertigo published back in 99 called Happydale.
I'd probably give it the benefit of the doubt until we actually see anything out of it, tbh. Even if Supernatural is shaky it's not necessarily a death sentence.
edit: idk if it matters but he's attached to a lot of D&D comics as well, and he's doing some dark horse comic adaptation for Grendel. basically i wouldnt just up and expect resident evil to come out like supernatural
It's not going to be, but they'll be mashing Resi 1 and 2 together, which already gives me red flags.
If it's going to be a series, make season 1 Resi 1 and season 2 as Resi 2, don't squish two plots into one series, because that hardly ever works out, and I don't want to see two games merged into one singular plot-point either.
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