Resident Evil is officially headed to television. Netflix has given an eight-episode order to a drama series inspired by Capcom's hugely popular Resident Evil survival horror game franchise.

Written by Supernatural executive producer/co-showrunner Andrew Dabb and produced by Constantin Film, which is behind the Resident Evil movies, the series will feature a brand new story across two timelines.

In the first timeline, fourteen-year-old sisters Jade and Billie Wesker are moved to New Raccoon City. A manufactured, corporate town, forced on them right as adolescence is in full swing. But the more time they spend there, the more they come to realize that the town is more than it seems and their father may be concealing dark secrets. Secrets that could destroy the world.

Cut to the second timeline, well over a decade into the future: there are less than fifteen million people left on Earth. And more than six billion monsters - people and animals infected with the T-virus. Jade, now thirty, struggles to survive in this New World, while the secrets from her past - about her sister, her father and herself - continue to haunt her.

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Get ready, #ResidentEvil fans. A live-action TV series of one of the best-selling video game franchises is officially a go at Netflix. Link in bio for all the details.

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  The Resident Evil TV series was set up at Netflix for development in early 2019 when the streamer launched a search for a writer. As Deadline reported at the time, the series is expected to incorporate all of Resident Evil's signature elements, including action sequences and `easter eggs.`

`Resident Evil is my favorite game of all time,` said Dabb, who will serve as showrunner. `I'm incredibly excited to tell a new chapter in this amazing story and bring the first-ever Resident Evil series to Netflix members around the world.`