Netflix’s Resident Evil Show Gets a Cast and a Release Date

Lance Reddick will portray Albert Wesker. The rest of the main cast’s names were announced but not their roles, so we just have to guess for now. Those actors include Ella Balinska, Tamara Smart, Siena Agudong, Adeline Rudolph, and Paola Nuñez, with additional cast including Ahad Raza Mir, Connor Gossatti, and Turlough Convery.

The teaser posters released alongside the announcement hint at a more technology/medicine focus, with blood vials and pills prominently on display. You can see all three of those posters at the bottom of this post. The series will consist of eight episodes, and it premieres on July 14.

This is not the first time Resident Evil is making the jump to live action: there are six blockbuster movies that become more and more disconnected from the videogame lore with each installment, the most recent and final being 2017’s Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.

Nor is it the first collaboration between developer Capcom and Netflix, that honor belongs to this past November’s Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. Writer/director Johannes Roberts combined the stories of the first two games and brought back much of the B-movie campiness that initially defined the series. To date, the series forays into film have received mostly negative reviews, but still managed to rake in almost $1.3 billion.