New Resident Evil Film Title Officially Revealed

Authored by ign.com and submitted by SanderSo47

The official title for the upcoming Resident Evil movie from director Johannes Roberts will officially be called “ Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.”

IGN learned the official title of the upcoming movie from Roberts himself during an interview at SXSW’s online event. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is an adaptation of the first two Resident Evil games and will include main characters from both titles including Chris and Claire Redfield, Jill Valentine, and Leon S. Kennedy.Set in the year 1998, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City will tell the events of the city under siege from infected zombies. Both the mansion from Resident Evil 1 and the city itself and police station from Resident Evil 2 will be present in the movie.There are a lot of Resident Evil films and adaptations in the works, so to clear the air, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is a new feature-length movie reboot completely unrelated to the franchise previously directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and starring Mila Jovovich.

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Constantin Film, the same production company that produced the first Resident Evil film franchise, is working on Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. The film has already announced who it has cast for its main roles which you can see in the gallery below.Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is not to be confused with a couple of projects in the works at Netflix including the animated CGI movie Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, and a live-action Resident Evil TV series spinoff starring Wesker’s children.Check out IGN’s full interview with Roberts to learn more about Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, including Roberts’ John Carpenter influence , and how the film will focus on its horror roots.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor.

NeroSkwid on March 21st, 2021 at 08:41 UTC »

Well I hope the dude playing Chris bulks up in time to punch boulders

MySockHurts on March 21st, 2021 at 03:12 UTC »

Paul W.S. Anderson: Well, I wanna make another Resident Evil movie, but I’m all out of ideas.

Sony: You could always pull something from the games.

PWSA: Wait, there’s a Resident Evil GAME??...Why is this the first I’m hearing of this?!

KnotSoSalty on March 21st, 2021 at 02:30 UTC »

By strange coincidence “Welcome to Raccoon City” is the subtitle of Zootopia 2 as well.