Once the burgeoning headquarters of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is today a city in agony. The exodus of society has left the city fallow … and great evil is brewing beneath the surface. When it breaks loose, the townspeople are forever … changed … and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth about Umbrella and survive the night.
Tom Hopper, alias Albert Wesker, reassured gamers: Resident Evil will not alter the spirit of the original game! Good news after the series of films with Milla Jovovich, which has caused a lot of ink to flow. If the Resident Evil franchise is firing on the series side on Netflix, between the announcement of a Live version and an animated series, the license will soon pass through the Reboot box on the darkroom side, under the auspices of the director Johannes Roberts. After unveiling part of the cast at the beginning of October, this time we discover photos from the shooting of the film. Photos taken by fans on set in Ontario, Canada. The opportunity to see in particular the re-establishment of the Racoon City police station, which was, as a reminder, at the heart of the game Resident Evil 2.

“It’s going to be super scary. It’s super, super scary,” Johannes Roberts told Screenant in 2019. “We’re going back to the roots of the game. I think, at the moment, I’m not allowed to say more. . But it will be a lot of fun. ” The problem is that many people thought that this return to the roots of the game would be in the vein of what brilliantly did the video game Resident Evil VII: BioHazard in 2017, which for the moment was absolutely not taking place. not in Racoon City but in Louisiana, in a house with almost indestructible occupants … In 2018, the filmmaker also said that this 7th video game opus “was a bit the basis of [his] version”. Which certainly did not mean that this cinematographic reboot would be its adaptation; but it could be confusing …