Kaya Scodelario (“Crawl”), Hannah John-Kamen (“Ant-Man and the Wasp”), Robbie Amell (“The Flash”), Tom Hopper (“The Umbrella Academy”), Avan Jogia (“Now Apocalypse”) and Neal McDonough (“Legends of Tomorrow”) are set to lead the cast of the new “Resident Evil” film reboot at Constantin Film.
Penned and directed by Johannes Roberts (“47 Meters Down”), the new effort restarts the Capcom game-inspired franchise with darker tone that’s much more horror than action based, with Roberts citing the first two games of the series as his big influence – “a terrifying visceral experience… and a grounded human story about a small dying American town.”
The story unfolds on a fateful night in Raccoon City in 1998; the fictional Midwestern town that’s the center of a bioweapon virus outbreak that destroys it and forever changes the country.
Scoledario will play Claire Redfield who is heading into Raccoon City to visit her brother Chris Redfield (Amell). John-Kamen is Jill Valentine, a member of the elite S.T.A.R.S. division within the city’s police department.
Hopper is researcher Albert Wesker, a duplicitous man serving the Umbrella Corporation’s dangerous mutant bioresearch while hiding his belief that mass extinction is what humanity needs.
Jogia is Leon Kennedy, a federal counterterrorist agent, while McDonough is William Birkin, a virologist who turns against the Umbrella Corporation but in the process poses an even greater threat to the town.
Robert Kulzer, James Harris and Hartley Gorenstein will produce. Screen Gems is planning on releasing the movie theatrically sometime in 2021.
Source: Heat vision
