✔️ 2022-07-16 21:00:48 – Paris/France.
Ambitious, dark and full of conspiracies, it's true resident evilthe Netflix series which adapts to television one of the franchises of video games most famous in history and which counts in its cast the Mexican Paola Núñez.
“You don't need to know the whole story of the game to understand this world because it's a side story. Watching the series for the first time, if you are new, you will understand it perfectly, "says the actress, known for series such as Queen of the South Yes love in custody.
Netflix has signed Núñez to play the villain of this new adaptation, which incidentally has nothing to do with the seven previous films that the brand has been releasing since 2002.
With its two intertwined storylines, the first with dystopian overtones about a corporate-controlled society and the second abandoned to survival in the apocalypse, resident evil will try to hold the attention of fans of video games, sci-fi and dystopias in a franchise that has consistently released formats over its more than 25 years of life.
Although they start off with a loyal following, attempts to jump from the console to the big screen don't always yield the expected results: Unexplored recently disappointed despite expectation; Deadly fight failed to establish itself as an attractive and Assassin's Creed It also failed to find the formula for success by transferring its cinephile plot to the present.
However, the format of the series makes the giant of the Streaming with The witcherbased on a series of video games which are in turn inspired by a novel, or by the own stranger thingsclearly influenced by the titles of the 80s.
With this background, resident evil is a new attempt to attract console gamers, and it goes back to the origins of the first video game, the one that revolutionized the industry in 1996 by introducing a survival plot and popularizing the zombie genre in popular culture.
Its new series, which opens this weekend around the world with eight one-hour chapters, begins as a direct sequel to the original game, but jumps forward in time to place us in two different eras.
On the one hand, it presents the New Raccoon City, a city created in 2022 by the Umbrella Corporation after the chemical disaster that devastated the previous city.
There, Núñez's character (Evelyn Marcus) runs a marketing operation for a drug (Joy) believed to have the power to eradicate anxiety and depression, but with obscure side effects.
"She's a wounded woman, she tries to gain respect within the company, in such a masculine world", testifies the actress about a character that the franchise presents as the daughter of the Machiavellian founder of the 'company.
The scenario cuts through this operation with catastrophic consequences, when in 2036 a virus devastated humanity and reduced its population to 300 million refugees living in camps surrounded by zombies.
There, Jade Wesker, one of the daughters of Dr. Albert Wesker, will try to discover the origin of this drama which affects her father.
" In this resident evil we can see how the decisions that are made create disasters in the future. This series is very apocalyptic, but it talks about human behavior and how many try to seek power in chaotic situations, ”emphasizes the Mexican.
With information from EFE
SOURCE: Reviews News
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