We’re less than a week away from Sony’s Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, a brand new franchise reboot from director Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down, The Strangers: Prey at Night) that’s taking a bite out of theaters on November 24. The movie is said to kick off “a new universe inspired by storylines and characters from Capcom’s classic games.”
While you wait, Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive look at a special creature vignette in which Roberts explores Raccoon City’s evil residents. In the clip, the filmmaker talks about honoring the original games, the development of the creatures, and how important it was to cast actual actors in the roles as opposed to extras. All great stuff!
Here’s the full official synopsis for the new movie…
“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.”
The cast includes Kaya Scodelario (Crawl) as Claire Redfield alongside Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp) as Jill Valentine, Robbie Amell (Upload) as Chris Redfield, Tom Hopper (The Umbrella Academy) as Albert Wesker, Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap) as Leon S. Kennedy, and Neal McDonough (Yellowstone) as William Birkin.
Additionally, Donal Logue (Silent Night, “Gotham”) is playing Chief Irons in the “origin story adaptation” of the games that’s set in Raccoon City in 1998.