Welcome to New Raccoon City A live-action Resident Evil TV series is officially coming to Netflix The news comes after months of development and a lengthy search for a showrunner

Netflix has ordered eight episodes of the Resident Evil show The streaming service confirmed the news on Twitter, along with an image of the script for the first episode, titled "Welcome to New Racoon City"

The project's existence was first reported by Deadline in January 2019 Then, in February of this year, the synopsis of this film adaptation was leaked early on Netflix's press site

The "Resident Evil" TV show will be supervised by Andrew Dove, co-showrunner of "Supernatural"

"Resident Evil is my favorite game I'm so 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 Resident Evil fans of all types, including first-time attendees, this series will be complete with many old friends and things people have never seen before (bloodthirsty madness)"

Capcom's Resident Evil is one of the largest video game franchises of all time, with over 100 million games sold worldwide; the six film adaptations of the franchise have grossed over $12 billion at the box office, making it the most successful video game adaptation ever

Hollywood has been turning video games into movies and TV shows for decades; Netflix had a hit with The Witcher Other game-to-TV projects include Showtime's Halo, HBO's The Last of Us, and Amazon's Fallout

Netflix has not announced a release date for the Resident Evil TV series All that is currently known is that there is at least one script in the works

Dove, who serves as showrunner and wrote the script for episode one, will not be able to begin production on Resident Evil until he finishes the delayed final season of the long-running CW drama Like many film and TV projects, "Supernatural" has just resumed production after being interrupted by a coronavirus outbreak

Therefore, it is likely that we will not see a "Resident Evil" TV series until late 2021

A leaked synopsis for "Resident Evil" in February stated: "The town of Clearfield, Maryland has long been in the shadow of three seemingly unrelated corporate behemoths: the Umbrella Corporation, the defunct Greenwood Psychiatric Hospital, and Washington DC" "Today, 26 years after the discovery of the T-virus, the secrets held by the three companies begin to reveal themselves at the first sign of an outbreak"

Netflix revealed a few details, including that the show will be drawn in two timelines: one will follow sisters Wesker, Jade and Billy, who move to New Raccoon City at age 14, before their destination and their father "hides a dark secret They realize that they "might That father may be Albert Wesker, the game's longtime antagonist

In another timeline, 16 years in the future, Earth has been ravaged by the T-virus, which turns people into zombies; six billion zombies have attacked the world and only 15 million people, including Jade, survive She struggles to survive as secrets from her past about her sister, her father, and herself continue to haunt her

Speculation about casting is pure speculation only However, with Dove in the cast, perhaps some of the Supernatural cast could make the jump to New Raccoon City Katie Cassidy as Jade Wesker, anyone? Jared Padalecki or Jensen Ackles could make an appearance as fellow survivors Jeffrey Dean Morgan knows all about zombies in The Walking Dead and would make a great antagonist