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It seems that Netflix’s Resident Evil series is happening, but it won’t be happening in Raccoon City, based on a leak from the streaming service’s media centre (via Nintendo Life).
The description has since been whisked away from the website, but the Resident Evil Wiki account snapped a screenshot of the specifics. “The town of Clearfield, MD has long stood in the shadow of three seemingly unrelated behemoths—the Umbrella Corporation, the decommissioned Greenwood Asylum, and Washington, D.C.,” read the entry. “Today, twenty-six years after the discovery of the T-Virus, secrets held by the three will start to be revealed at the first signs of outbreak.” Some may be saddened that they won’t see Raccoon City on the small screen, but it does offer an opportunity to tell an all-new story. Neither Clearfield nor Greenwood Asylum appear in the Resident Evil canon, and the eight episode series will be “expand[ing] the Resident Evil universe and deepen[ing] the existing mythology.”
It has finally been confirmed that a Netflix adaptation of Resident Evil is in the works. Attached is a description taken from Netflix's Media Center. See also a WaybackMachine archive of the search result we took a few minutes ago:https://t.co/sAtmqupwuV pic.twitter.com/wmPgoLtafI
— Resident Evil Wiki (@RE_Wiki) February 7, 2020
Another interesting insight is that the events of the series occur more than two decades after the creation of the T-Virus. That was discovered in the late 1960s, which would infer that the show will be set in the early 1990s. With the earliest entry—Resident Evil 0—taking place in 1998, this one might be a prequel to that one, and therefore the very first Resident Evil story in the entire series. Imaginably, the show will draw an audience. The Resident Evil movies are ludicrous lucrative, generating over $1.2 billion worldwide, and there’s a “super, super scary” reboot in the works. And, Netflix’s The Witcher was viewed by over 76 million viewers in its first month, and encouraged lots of people to try out or return to the games by CD Projekt Red. An entirely new setting might be suspicious, but the project is in its early stages, and it’s almost certain that Netflix will throw money at it like there’s no tomorrow.
Resident Evil 3 Remake will be released on April 3 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
