Netflix’s ‘Resident Evil’ TV Series Adds Lance Reddick as Albert Wesker

News June 12, 2021 9:32 pm Caleb Williams

Recently, Netflix announced a new live-action series based on the Resident Evil franchise is in the works at the streaming network. The action-horror video game franchise spawned several films starring Mila Jovovich. The new series will be eight 8-hour episodes and follow the release of the T-virus by the Umbrella Corporation.

It will star Lance Reddick (Fringe, John Wick) as Albert Wesker. Ella Balinska, Tamara Smart, Siena Agudong, Adeline Rudolph, and Paola Nuñez also joined the cast but their characters are being kept under wraps. Andrew Dabb will serve as showrunner for Constantin Film.

Resident Evil will stream exclusively on Netflix

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Caleb eventually sold Omega Underground and all its assets to Geeks World Wide, LLC in 2018 and became a staff writer for them for about a year. Finally, Caleb left GWW to begin Knight Edge Media from scratch in November 2019 while finishing his Bachelor’s degree. Knight Edge Media has become a premier website destination for nerdy film and television casting, trailers, reviews, and production updates from the project’s announcement to its final worldwide release. Knight Edge Media has also been known for breaking several exclusive news stories throughout the website’s history.

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