We’re just over one week away from Sony’s Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, a brand new franchise reboot from director Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down, The Strangers: Prey at Night) that’s taking a bite out of theaters on November 24. The movie is said to kick off “a new universe inspired by storylines and characters from Capcom’s classic games.”
While you wait, you can watch an official clip from the new movie below, which pits Kaya Scodelario‘s (Crawl) Claire Redfield up against a particularly nasty monster. And keep your eyes peeled for the words “Itchy Tasty” written in blood, a reference to the original game!
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.