At the beginning of 2019, the famous online magazine Deadline I reveal that Netflix was working on a Resident Evil series, the horror saga of video game giant Capcom. It is one of the most famous and fruitful franchises in the world of video games, created in 1996 with its first video game for the first Sony Playstation, has sold a whopping 90 million copies across all platforms to date.
Netflix for now has not made any kind of official statement, but the synopsis of the series has been leaked by "accident", therefore it is confirmed that the content exists and we may see it in a few weeks or days, is what usually happens in these cases. We are not few who have been waiting for this news like May water after the entertaining but at the same time terrible film series by Paul WS Anderson, We have hope especially considering what we have seen recently with the series of the witcher 'The Witcher'.
Synopsis Leaked by Netflix
The content synopsis was discovered by Jawmuncher a forum user ResetERA, in the Netflix mediacenter. The service responded by removing the content as soon as the leak came to light. Apparently the narrative will try to align itself with the events that occurred in the video game stories; the protagonists will be in charge of discovering What is the Umbrella pharmaceutical corporation up to?, developed from the T virus (Virus Tirant).
“The city of Celarfield, MD (Maryland), has been for a long period of time under the shadow of three seemingly unrelated giants: the Umbrella Corporation, the dismantled Greenwood Psychiatric Hospital and the city of Washington DC. Now, twenty-six years after the discovery of the T Virus, the secrets hidden by those three parties will begin to be revealed along with the first signs of an outbreak.
The leaked synopsis fully matches the information reported by the Deadline medium. The medium already mentioned in its advance that Netflix intended to investigate the internal processes of the Umbrella corporationAnd how is it that despite spreading a virus that kills an entire city, it continued to gain power. Besides it is known that the production company Constantin Film is involved in the production of a series television currently, therefore, everything fits if we add it to the fact that we mention in this article.
Information and release date:
At the moment there is no information about the date of its possible premiere, since the leak despite being from Netflix itself did not include dates. Everything indicates that the series will be launched this year 2020, taking advantage of the pull that the next video game in the saga will offer. Resident Evil 3 Remake will be released on April 3 and it would be a phenomenal speaker both for the series itself and for Netflix, which with this would get many fans of the saga to pay for the service just to see the series.
A canceled Resident Evil series was discovered in 2017
To all this it should be noted that there was already a previous attempt to create a series of this saga, The canceled Resident Evil TV series. Independent director Shawn Lebert and Mance Media announced a few years ago that they were working on this project called Arklay, name of the mountains where the mansion is located where the story of the first game of the franchise takes place.
The story followed a detective named James Reinhardt who had investigated multiple homicides in Raccoon City; Nevertheless, the study did not continue with the project. In the revealed proof of concept, all references to the horror franchise have been removed from the video, but it still features the same tense atmosphere from the saga. A pity why, the pilot chapter pointed ways, although it is true that This was not a high-budget production.