Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City" to be released in 2022! The trailer and poster are released simultaneously worldwide!

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City," the latest in the "Resident Evil" survival action film series, will be released in 2022.

Born from Capcom's popular video game series, which has sold more than 117 million copies worldwide, the "Resident Evil" series is a survival action film that depicts the battle between the beautiful heroine "Alice," played by Milla Jovovich, and her arch enemy, the Umbrella Corporation, which has turned the world undead. Resident Evil" series of survival action films.

Since its first appearance on the screen in 2002, the series has expanded its fan base with each film getting bigger and bigger, and the six films in the series up to "Resident Evil: The Final," which reached its final chapter in 2016, have grossed over 120 billion yen at the global box office. The series has become a historic blockbuster series.

In 2022, "Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City," a new film that marks the origin of "Resident Evil," will be released in theaters under the Japanese title "Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City. The trailer and two posters for the international version have been released simultaneously around the world.

Trailer】 【Trailer

Two posters for the international version

September 30, 1998, Raccoon City. What happened on that day in Raccoon City?
＜The Umbrella Corporation was secretly conducting human experimentation.
Despair" is born in this city.

The stage is set in Raccoon City, where the giant conglomerate Umbrella Inc. is based. Claire Redfield (Kaya Scodelario), who grew up in an orphanage in this city, returns to Raccoon City after receiving a mysterious message warning her that something strange is happening in the city after an accident caused by the Umbrella Corporation.

Chris Redfield (Robbie Amell), the brother of the Raccoon City Police Department (R.P.D.), dismisses what Claire says as an impossible conspiracy theory, but soon the two of them see the residents wandering around the city, their faces transformed. One by one, they are attacked.
The two learn that the Umbrella Corporation has been conducting human experimentation in secret. ......

In addition to Claire and Chris, other major characters from the original game appear in the trailer, including Jill Valentine (Hannah John-Kamen), Albert Wesker (Tom Hopper), and Leon S. Kennedy (Avan Jogia).

Johannes Roberts, who wrote and directed the film, said, "We aimed to make a horror film based on the game series" (from US "IGN" article). A new film depicting the origin of "Resident Evil" has been born.

Film Info.
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
Original title: "Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City
＜Release Date
Japan: Roadshow in Japan in 2022
US: November 24, 2021 (scheduled)

Writer/Director: Johannes Roberts

Cast: Kaya Scodelario (Claire Redfield) / Hannah John-Kamen (Jill Valentine) / Robbie Amell (Chris Redfield) / Tom Hopper (Albert Wesker) / Avan Jogia (Leon S. Kennedy) / Donal Logue (Brian Irons) / Neal McDonough (William Birkin)