Constantin Film has remade «Resident Evil» and this time sticks closely to the original game series. The reboot will start as planned at the end of November 2021 and (in contrast to many other productions since the pandemic) exclusively in cinemas and will clearly focus on the promised horror and thrill! The nostalgic trailer should make fans of the video game classics "Resident Evil" and "Resident Evil 2" from 1996 and 1998 particularly happy.
Because instead of completely turning the entire brand and essence of the template upside down and creating something of your own that only superficially reminds of the acclaimed template - as was the case with director Paul WS Anderson and his six films between 2002 and 2016 - the approach and intention of filmmaker Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged) in his adaptation is completely different - here many of the decisions were made in the interests of hardcore fans. They should finally get to see the film before the end of the year that they had actually been hoping for almost 20 years ago - and the chances are really good if it goes after the trailer, which is certainly that among connoisseurs and lovers of Capcom's popular franchise triggers one or the other déjà vu.
While Robbie Amell (The Babysitter, The Babysitter: Killer Queen), Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp, Brand New World) and Tom Hopper (Tormented, Black Sails) as Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine and Albert Wesker into the iconic Avan Jogia (Now Apocalypse, Zombieland: Double is Better) and Kaya Scodelario (Maze Runner - The Chosen in the Labyrinth, Crawl) as Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield have been kidnapped from the mansion, where they encounter zombies, mutated dogs and other dangers Keep your hands full, especially in Raccoon City. There, too, the undead roam around every corner, but the greatest of all threats emanate from the former scientist William Birkin, who is increasingly becoming an apparently invincible monster - one that in particular police officers Leon and Claire, who were named after their missing brother Chris seeks, wants to prevent, to get survivors of the apocalypse and himself out of the city of the living dead before they too are turned into a zombie or the government removes the whole place from the map in the fight against the spread of the epidemic.
The fact that Johannes Roberts played the games himself and learned to love them as a young man cannot be denied after a look at the two-minute foretaste. The parallels to the video game are identifiable, as is its obvious attention to detail. The whole thing almost gives the impression that the 45-year-old would want us to get our old PlayStation console and the tube TV that went with it out of the basement, blow the dust away with all our breath and catapult us back to the nineties. However, on November 25, 2021, when “Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City” hits the cinemas, gamers and potential moviegoers will be asked to let go of the controller for two hours and let the fate of the characters pass into those of Johannes Roberts, who navigates the characters through the horror scenario for us. Will our darlings all make it out of the whole mess in one piece or do we have to take the helm again to ensure the survival of Chris and Co.?