Actor Lance Reddick, identified for his efficiency in The Wire, has been roped in to play the primary villain, Albert Wesker, within the upcoming live-action Resident Evil sequence on Netlflix.
Reddick would be the first actor of color to painting infamous virologist Wesker within the historical past of the franchise. Canadian actor Shawn Roberts and Irish star Jason O’Mara have beforehand performed the position.
In line with Deadline, the sequence may even star Ella Balinska, Tamara Sensible, Siena Agudong, Adeline Rudolph, and Paola Nunez.
The live-action scripted present, based mostly on the online game and film franchise of the identical title, has been created by Supernatural showrunner Andrew Dabb.
The sequence has obtained an eight-episode order from the streaming large and can inform a model new story throughout two timelines.
The primary timeline follows 14-year-old sisters, Jade and Billie Wesker, who transfer to New Raccoon Metropolis, a company city. The extra time they spend there, the extra they arrive to grasp that the city is greater than it appears and their father possibly concealing darkish secrets and techniques, that might destroy the world.
The second timeline is about greater than a decade into the long run the place lower than 15 million individuals are left on Earth, together with six billion monsters which can be individuals and animals contaminated with the T-virus. Jade, now thirty, struggles to outlive on this new world, whereas the secrets and techniques from her previous, about her sister, her father and herself proceed to hang-out her.
Contantin Movies will produce the sequence with Andrew Dabb serving as author, showrunner and govt producer.
The franchise, launched in 2002 with Milla Jovovich-starrer Resident Evil, consists of six movies, that grossed USD 1.2 billion worldwide
