In the wake of yesterday’s US trailer, an alternate trailer for Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City from Sony Pictures Malaysia has surfaced today, giving us a bit of a different look at the Johannes Roberts-directed (47 Meters Down, The Strangers: Prey at Night) adaptation of the original two games that’s coming to theaters on November 24, 2021.
In addition to featuring brand new footage that wasn’t in the US trailer, this alternate trailer also removes the 4 Non Blondes song ‘What’s Up?’ from the proceedings, giving it a bit more of an intense horror vibe. According to comments on YouTube, many Resident Evil fans are far more sold on this trailer than the other one, so you might want to check it out!
Here’s the full official synopsis for the new movie…
“Returning to the terrifying roots of the massively popular franchise, fan and filmmaker Johannes Roberts brings the games of the billion dollar franchise and the most successful video game adaptation in history to life for a whole new generation of fans.”
“Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.”
The cast includes Kaya Scodelario (Crawl) as Claire Redfield alongside Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp) as Jill Valentine, Robbie Amell (Upload) as Chris Redfield, Tom Hopper (The Umbrella Academy) as Albert Wesker, Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap) as Leon S. Kennedy, and Neal McDonough (Yellowstone) as William Birkin.
Additionally, Donal Logue (Silent Night, “Gotham”) is playing Chief Irons in the “origin story adaptation” of the games that’s set in Raccoon City in 1998.