Resident Evil: Netflix Orders Live-Action Series with Supernatural Showrunner

Resident Evil is coming to the small screen. Netflix has ordered a live-action series based on the popular video game franchise. An executive producer and co-showrunner on The CW’s Supernatural series, Andrew Dabb is writing the series.  Eight episodes have been ordered for the first season of the horror series.

Netflix revealed more about the series in a press release.

“Building on one of the most popular, best selling survival horror video games of all time, Resident Evil will tell a brand new story across two timelines:

In the first timeline, fourteen-year-old sisters Jade and Billie Wesker are moved to New Raccoon City. A manufactured, corporate town, forced on them right as adolescence is in full swing. But the more time they spend there, the more they come to realize that the town is more than it seems and their father may be concealing dark secrets. Secrets that could destroy the world.

Cut to the second timeline, well over a decade into the future: there are less than fifteen million people left on Earth. And more than six billion monsters — people and animals infected with the T-virus. Jade, now thirty, struggles to survive in this New World, while the secrets from her past – about her sister, her father and herself – continue to haunt her.

ANDREW DABB, Showrunner/Executive Producer/Writer, said: “Resident Evil is my favorite game of all time. I’m incredibly excited to tell a new chapter in this amazing story and bring the first ever Resident Evil series to Netflix members around the world. For every type of Resident Evil fan, including those joining us for the first time, the series will be complete with a lot of old friends, and some things (bloodthirsty, insane things) people have never seen before.””

Check out a script page teasing the new series below.

What do you think? Have you played the Resident Evil video game? Will you check out the new series on Netflix?