Netflix Preps Resident Evil Live-Action Series

A scripted live-action series inspired by Capcom’s Resident Evil franchise is coming to Netflix.

Andrew Dabb (Supernatural) will serve as showrunner, executive producer and writer for the 8×1-hour series, which builds on one of the most popular and best-selling survival horror video games of all time. Constantin Film is the studio behind the project.

Resident Evil will tell a brand-new story across two timelines. In the first, 14-year-old sisters Jade and Billie Wesker are moved to New Raccoon City, a manufactured, corporate town, forced on them right as adolescence is in full swing. In the second timeline, well over a decade into the future: there are less than 15 million people left on Earth, and more than 6 billion monsters—people and animals infected with the T-virus. Jade, now 30, struggles to survive in this New World, while the secrets from her past—about her sister, her father and herself—continue to haunt her.

Dabb said: “Resident Evil is my favorite game of all time. I’m incredibly excited to tell a new chapter in this amazing story and bring the first-ever Resident Evil series to Netflix members around the world. For every type of Resident Evil fan, including those joining us for the first time, the series will be complete with a lot of old friends, and some things (bloodthirsty, insane things) people have never seen before.”