The premise of the Netflix adaptation of the Resident Evil franchise has seemingly been revealed, as a synopsis for the show has appeared on Netflix’s website and it might not be as close to the story of the games as people might like.

Resident Evil is one of the most popular video game franchises of all time, leading to a number of adaptations into other forms of media. The most successful of these is the Resident Evil movie franchise, which grossed over a billion dollars worldwide, despite a mixed critical response.

There were rumors last year of Netflix acquiring the rights for a series based on Resident Evil and even more rumors that production will officially start this summer. The Resident Evil Wiki Twitter page is adding more fuel to the fire, as a synopsis of the show appeared on the Netflix media page and has since disappeared. The description can be seen using the WaybackMachine and we will post it below in case it’s scrubbed by Netflix.

It seems that the series will be a sequel to the events of the games, rather than being an adaptation of the events seen in Resident Evil or Resident Evil 0. The town of Clearfield might act as a new version of Raccoon City and the viewers could watch it fall into the same chaos seen during Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3, as law and order crumble in the face of a horde of zombies.

The town of Clearfield, MD has long stood in the shadow of three seemingly unrelated behemoths – the Umbrella Corporation, the decommissioned Greenwood Asylum, and Washington, D.C. Today, twenty-six years after the discovery of the T-Virus, secrets held by the three will start to be revealed at the first signs of outbreak.

The Resident Evil series has been crying out for a TV show adaptation for a long time now, especially considering the incredible success of The Walking Dead. There was a Resident Evil musical in Japan back in 2018, yet it seems Netflix was the only company with the clout to make a TV show adaptation happen. It might have made more sense to adapt one of the games to start out with, but it’s still very early days yet and the cameras haven’t started rolling, so it’s possible that the final product will differ from the synopsis.

Source: Resident Evil Wiki/Twitter