Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City gets a trailer

(L to R) Tom Hopper, Chad Rook, Hannah John-Kamen, Robbie Amell in Screen Gems RESIDENT EVIL WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY

Sony Pictures UK has sent over the official first trailer and poster for Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City, the much-anticipated action horror based on the iconic videogame franchise, coming to cinemas 3 December. This is a reboot of the films and is going back to basics.

Returning to the origins of the massively popular RESIDENT EVIL franchise, fan and filmmaker Johannes Roberts brings the games to life for a whole new generation of fans. In RESIDENT EVIL: WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY, 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, a group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.

This actually looks pretty good and appears to be a lot more faithful to the original game than the previous Resident Evil movies were. Obviously, it is just one trailer, but I will definitely be keeping an eye on this one.

Written and directed by Johannes Roberts and starring Kaya Scodelario as Claire Redfield, Hannah John-Kamen as Jill Valentine, Robbie Amell as Chris Redfield, Tom Hopper as Albert Wesker and Avan Jogia as Leon S. Kennedy, with Donal Logue and Neal McDonough, RESIDENT EVIL: WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY will be released exclusively at UK cinemas, December 3. If hits US cinemas on 24th November 2021.