We’re less than a week out from the November 24th theatrical release of Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, writer/director Johannes Roberts‘ reboot of the Resident Evil film franchise. This movie is directly based on the first two Resident Evil video games, and a lot of the marketing has focused on how much attention Roberts paid to details from the video game while bringing the story to the screen. A newly released promo, which you can see in the embed above, focuses on the sort of video game Easter eggs fans will be able to spot in Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, from set dressing and props to the fact that two major locations, the mansion and the police station, were built to match the blueprints of their video game counterparts.
The film has the following 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.
The cast includes Kaya Scodelario as Claire Redfield, Avan Jogia as Leon Kennedy, Robbie Amell as Chris Redfield, Tom Hopper as Albert Wesker, Hannah John-Kamen as Jill Valentine, 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 hope this has turned out well, because at its core it sounds like the Resident Evil movie I was hoping to see twenty years ago.