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“Resident Evil”: Lance Reddick Playing Albert Wesker in Netflix’s Live-Action Series; Now in Production!

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In addition to Sony’s film Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City and Netflix’s animated series “Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness,” a live-action series is also in production at Netflix.

Announced today during Netflix’s “Geeked Week,” Lance Reddick (John Wick) will be playing Albert Wesker in the live-action Netflix series, with more casting also announced.

The cast also includes:

  • ELLA BALINSKA
  • TAMARA SMART
  • SIENA AGUDONG
  • ADELINE RUDOLPH
  • PAOLA NUNEZ

“Building on one of the most popular, best selling survival horror video games of all time, “Resident Evil” will tell a brand new story across two timelines, both following the daughters of series antagonist Albert Wesker in the present and future.”

“Nearly three decades after the discovery of the T-virus, an outbreak reveals the Umbrella Corporation’s dark secrets.”

“In the first timeline, fourteen-year-old sisters Jade and Billie Wesker are moved to New Raccoon City. A manufactured, corporate town, forced on them right as adolescence is in full swing. But the more time they spend there, the more they come to realize that the town is more than it seems and their father may be concealing dark secrets. Secrets that could destroy the world.

“Cut to the second timeline, well over a decade into the future: there are less than fifteen million people left on Earth. And more than six billion monsters — people and animals infected with the T-virus. Jade, now thirty, struggles to survive in this New World, while the secrets from her past – about her sister, her father and herself – continue to haunt her.”

Netflix has ordered eight hourlong episodes. Bronwen Hughes (“The Walking Dead”) will direct and executive produce the first two episodes.

“For every type of Resident Evil fan, including those joining us for the first time, the series will be complete with a lot of old friends, and some things (bloodthirsty, insane things) people have never seen before,” said showrunner Andrew Dabb (“Supernatural”), who also executive produces and writes on the series.

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Thandiwe Newton Joins the Cast of “Wednesday” Season 2

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April 23, 2024

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Pictured: Thandiwe Newton in 'God's Country' (2022)

Last week we learned that Steve Buscemi had joined the cast of “Wednesday” Season 2 at Netflix, and Variety lets us know that Thandiwe Newton (“Westworld”) has also signed on.

Jenna Ortega is back as Wednesday Addams in the upcoming second season of Netflix’s “Wednesday,” with Steve Buscemi playing the new principal of Nevermore Academy.

Jenna Ortega stars in the hit series as Wednesday Addams, with Luis Guzmán playing Gomez and Catherine Zeta-Jones playing Morticia in Tim Burton’s Netflix series. Christina Ricci also appears in the show, playing a brand new role, with Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester.

“Wednesday” is described as “a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy.” The series follows…

“Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships.”

Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (“Smallville”) are the writers and showrunners, with Tim Burton executive producing and directing several episodes of the show’s debut season.

We don’t know much about “Wednesday” Season 2 at the moment but Jenna Ortega has promised that the new season will be “bolder” and darker than the first season of the series.

“We’ve decided we want to lean into the horror more,” Ortega said last year.

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