According to a report by Deadline, the Resident Evil TV series has been canceled by Netflix after just one season.
The adaptation, originally rumored in early 2019, landed this July on Netflix. Developed by Andrew Dabb and executive produced by Mary Leah Sutton, Oliver Berben, Robert Kulzer, and Bronwen Hughes, it was produced by Constantine Film, the same company behind the feature films.
It featured Lance Reddick as the clones of Albert Wesker, Ella Balinska and Adeline Rudolph as his daughters, and was set across two timelines (2022 and 2036) several years after the games' events.
The Resident Evil TV series didn't do too bad on its debut, with an estimated 72.7 million hours viewed in the first week of its release. However, it didn't improve much in its second week, having only registered 73.3 million hours viewed, and ultimately dropped off the Top 10 chart on Netflix after the third week.
That said, Netflix still has many video game adaptations on the way, even after the cancellation of the Resident Evil TV series. Tekken: Bloodline's first season is already up for viewing, while Cyberpunk: Edgerunners will debut soon. Then there are Dragon Age: Absolution and The Witcher: Blood Origin, both scheduled in December, and Sonic Prime is also planned to go live before the year's end.
Looking to the future, there's a live-action Pokémon series, an Assassin's Creed live-action series announced back in 2020, untitled animated shows based on the Castlevania and Tomb Raider franchises, and last but not least, the Horizon live-action series that will be made by The Umbrella Academy's Steve Blackman.
About the author: With over two decades of experience in gaming journalism, Alessio Palumbo has led the gaming vertical at Wccftech since August 2015. He started working at a young age for Italian websites like Everyeye.it, Gamestar.it, Nextgame.it, and Multiplayer.it before kickstarting the indie English-language publication Worlds Factory as its founder and Editor in Chief. In the last decade, he has coordinated the overall output of Wccftech's gaming section, managed PR relations, assigned reviews, produced daily news coverage, edited gaming content as needed, and delivered game reviews. Arguably, his trademark content is the long series of exclusive developer interviews that have been cited by Wikipedia and by the biggest news media and gaming publications. His passion for technology also makes him knowledgeable when it comes to gaming hardware and tech. His favorite genres include RPGs, MMORPGs, and action/adventure games.
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