Resident Evil: Netflix announces July premiere date for live-action series

Last June, Netflix unveiled an image of the cast that had been assembled for their live-action TV series adaptation of the popular Resident Evil video games. A series that has no connection to any of the Resident Evil movies that have been made over the years. In November, they confirmed that the Resident Evil show would be part of their 2022 line-up. Now they have officially announced the premiere date: Resident Evil reaches the streaming service on July 14th.

This announcement came by way of promotional artwork that was shared to Twitter:

Here’s the simple description:

RESIDENT EVIL: A live action, scripted series building on Capcom’s legendary video game franchise starring Lance Reddick as Albert Wesker. Nearly three decades after the discovery of the T-virus, an outbreak reveals the Umbrella Corporation’s dark secrets.

And here’s some more information:

Building on one of the most popular, best selling survival horror video games of all time, “Resident Evil” will tell a brand new story across two timelines, both following the daughters of series antagonist Albert Wesker in the present and future. Nearly three decades after the discovery of the T-virus, an outbreak reveals the Umbrella Corporation’s dark secrets.

In the first timeline, fourteen-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.”

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!

In addition to Lance Reddick (The Guest) as Albert Wesker, the series also stars Ella Balinska (Charlie’s Angels), Tamara Smart (Artemis Fowl), Siena Agudong (Upside-Down Magic), Adeline Rudolph (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), and Paola Nuñez (Bad Boys for Life).

Andrew Dabb (Supernatural) is the showrunner.