Sony Pictures has finally dropped the first Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City photos for Johannes Roberts’ upcoming horror reboot of the popular video game series. The film is currently slated to hit theaters on November 24, which pits it against Ridley Scott’s crime biopic House of Gucci, and Disney’s new animated film Encanto.
The photos, which you can check out below, provide us with our first look at new iterations of fan-favorite video game characters including Leon S. Kennedy, Claire Redfield, and Chris Redfield, which are being respectively portrayed by Avan Jogia, Kaya Scodelario, and Robbie Amell. In addition, Tom Hopper’s Albert Wesker, and Hannah John-Kamen’s Jill Valentine can also be seen in the newly-released photos along with a creepy mutated creature.
Allow me to introduce you to some of our residents #ResidentEvil: #WelcomeToRaccoonCity is coming exclusively to movie theaters November 24. pic.twitter.com/0lR7g0wJZC
— Resident Evil (@ResidentEvil) August 30, 2021
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Returning to the terrifying roots of the massively popular Resident Evil franchise, fan, and filmmaker Johannes Roberts brings the games of the billion-dollar franchise and the most successful video game adaptation in history to life for a whole new generation of fans. The upcoming movie will be an official origin story to Capcom’s long-running survival horror video game franchise, which will be unrelated to Paul W.S. Anderson’s Milla Jovovich-led franchise.
“In Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town,” reads the official synopsis. “The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland, with great evil brewing below the surface, and 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 film stars Kaya Scodelario as Claire Redfield, Hannah John-Kamen as Jill Valentine, Robbie Amell as Chris Redfield, Tom Hopper as Albert Wesker, Avan Jogia as Leon S. Kennedy, Neal McDonough as William Birkin, and Lily Gao as Ada Wong, Joining them are Chad Rook as Richard Aiken, Donal Logue as Chief Brian Irons, and Marina Mazepa as Lisa Trevor, marking the live-action debuts for the characters. Among the main characters from the video games, only Leon S. Kennedy wasn’t featured in Sony’s first Resident Evil films.
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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is directed by Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down) from a screenplay he co-wrote with Greg Russo. Producers are Constantin Films’ Robert Kulzer, James Harris from Tea Shop Productions, and Hartley Gorenstein, with Constantin’s CEO Martin Moskowicz and Davis Film’s Victor Hadida set as executive producers.
