Sony Pictures has revealed a new pair of character featurettes for the highly-anticipated horror reboot Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, featuring commentaries from director Johannes Roberts, Tom Hopper (The Umbrella Academy), and Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and The Wasp). The film is currently set to arrive in theaters on November 24.
The videos, which you can check out below, have finally turned the spotlight to popular video game characters Albert Wesker and Jill Valentine, portrayed by Hopper and John-Kamen, respectively. The first featurette teases Wesker’s origin story as well as his transformation from being an important member of the RPD to becoming the villain that we’ve all known him to be. Meanwhile, the second one shifts its focus to Valentine, a complete badass who’s just a “little bit crazy.”
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Returning to the terrifying roots of the massively popular Resident Evil franchise, fan, and filmmaker Johannes Roberts brings the games of the billion-dollar franchise and the most successful video game adaptation in history to life for a whole new generation of fans. The upcoming movie will be an official origin story to Capcom’s long-running survival horror video game franchise, which will be unrelated to Paul W.S. Anderson’s Milla Jovovich-led franchise.
“In Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town,” reads the official synopsis. “The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland, with great evil brewing below the surface, and 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 film stars Kaya Scodelario as Claire Redfield, Hannah John-Kamen as Jill Valentine, Robbie Amell as Chris Redfield, Tom Hopper as Albert Wesker, Avan Jogia as Leon S. Kennedy, Neal McDonough as William Birkin, and Lily Gao as Ada Wong, Joining them are Chad Rook as Richard Aiken, Donal Logue as Chief Brian Irons, and Marina Mazepa as Lisa Trevor, marking the live-action debuts for the characters.
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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is directed by Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down) from a screenplay he co-wrote with Greg Russo. Producers are Constantin Films’ Robert Kulzer, James Harris from Tea Shop Productions, and Hartley Gorenstein, with Constantin’s CEO Martin Moskowicz and Davis Film’s Victor Hadida set as executive producers.
