The Sony marketing department should stop putting the giant, distracting subtitles in the trailers for Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, but aside from that the newly released trailer for the film is pretty cool. You can check it out in the embed above, and I like the tone of this one. It plays up the creepy horror element, and shows off the variety of creatures we’ll be seeing in the film, from zombies to lickers.
A reboot of the Resident Evil movie franchise, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is set to reach theatres on November 24th. The film was written and directed by Johannes Roberts and is directly based on the first two Resident Evil games. Here’s the synopsis:
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.
Kaya Scodelario, Avan Jogia, Robbie Amell, Tom Hopper, and Hannah John-Kamen star as Claire Redfield, Leon Kennedy, Chris Redfield, Albert Wesker, and Jill Valentine, respectively. You can see featurettes that focus on those characters embedded below.
Also in the cast are Neal McDonough as William Birkin, Donal Logue as Chief Brian Irons, Chad Rook as Richard Aiken, Lily Gao as Ada Wong, Nathan Dale as Brad Vickers, and Marina Mazepa as Lisa Trevor.
The Motion Picture Association has given Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City an R rating for strong violence and gore, and language throughout.
I enjoyed Roberts’ 47 Meters Down movies and The Strangers: Prey at Night, so I’m looking forward to seeing his take on Resident Evil.