Netflix confirms it will create a live-action TV series of "Resident Evil": the background is the new Raccoon City dual timeline

The rumor that Netflix will create a live-action version of "Resident Evil" TV series, which has been rumored for more than a year, has finally come true. Netflix has confirmed that a live-action TV series adapted from Capcom's legendary survival horror series "Resident Evil" is in preparation. The live-action TV series "Resident Evil" will have a total of 8 episodes, each 60 minutes long.

According to Netflix, the Resident Evil live-action TV series will tell a brand new story across two timelines. Here's a quick description of Netflix's Resident Evil TV series:

"In the first timeline, fourteen-year-old sisters Jade and Billie Wesker move to New Raccoon City, an artificially created merchant town. But the longer they spend there, the more they realize there's more to this town than meets the eye, and that their father may be hiding a dark secret, one that could destroy the world. In the second timeline, more than a decade in the future, there are fewer than fifteen million people left on Earth, and more than six billion monsters - both humans and animals infected with the T-Virus. Thirty-year-old Jade struggles to survive in this new land, while secrets from her past - about her sister, her father, and herself - continue to haunt her."

Netflix's "Resident Evil" live-action drama has not yet announced casting news, but Netflix revealed that the first season of this one-hour drama will be directed by producer and screenwriter Andrew Dabo ("Supernatural") and director Bronwen Hughes ("The Walking Dead"), who will direct the first two episodes. Dabo and Hughes will serve as executive producers with Robert Kurzer and Oliver Burben of Constantine Films and Mary Lea Sutton.

Andrew Dabo, director of the live-action series of "Resident Evil", said: "'Resident Evil' has always been my favorite game. I am very excited to tell the new chapter of this amazing story and bring the first 'Resident Evil' series to Netflix members around the world. For you, whether you are a fan of any 'Resident Evil' or a newbie, this TV series will have many old friends and some things that you have never seen before (bloodthirsty, crazy things)."