Actor Lance Reddick, greatest recognized for his efficiency in The Wire, has been forged to play the primary villain, Albert Wesker, within the upcoming live-action Resident Evil collection on Netflix.
Reddick would be the first actor of coloration in franchise historical past to painting notorious virologist Wesker. Canadian actor Shawn Roberts and Irish star Jason O’Mara have beforehand performed the position.
According to Deadline, the collection can even star Ella Balinska, Tamara Smart, Sienna Agudong, Adeline Rudolph and Paola Nunez.
The live-action scripted present, primarily based on the online game and film franchise of the identical identify, is created by Supernatural showrunner Andrew Dubb.
The collection has obtained an eight-episode order from the streaming large and can inform a brand new story in two timelines.
The first timeline follows 14-year-old sisters, Jade and Billy Wesker, who transfer to New Raccoon City, a company city. The extra time they spend there, the extra they uncover that the town is far more than it appears and that their father might be hiding darkish secrets and techniques that might destroy the world.
The second timeline is ready greater than a decade sooner or later, the place there are fewer than 15 million folks left on Earth, in addition to six billion monsters which are folks and animals contaminated with the T-virus. Jade, now thirty, struggles to outlive on this new world, whereas secrets and techniques from her previous, about her sister, her father, and herself, proceed to hang-out her.
Constantin Films will produce the collection, with Andrew Dub as author, showrunner and govt producer.
The franchise, which launched in 2002 with the Milla Jovovich-starrer Resident Evil, consists of six movies that grossed US$1.2 billion worldwide.
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