Netflix will soon premiere its live-action Resident Evil series and a clip from the show reveals some new footage. In the clip, Lance Reddick is featured as Albert Wesker, seemingly in the immediate aftermath of something going wrong at the Umbrella Corporation lab. You can watch the footage below ahead of the show’s premiere on July 14.

The series stars Ella Balinska, Lance Reddick, Tamara Smart, Siena Agudong, Adeline Rudolph, Paola Nuñez, Ahad Raza Mir, Connor Gossatti, and Turlough Convery. Andrew Dabb (Supernatural) is series showrunner and co-writer alongside Mary Leah Sutton. Dabb and Sutton also executive produce with Robert Kulzer and Oliver Berben of Constantin Film. Constantin Film CEO Martin Moszkowicz is producing.

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This series is not related to the previous live-action movie adaptations. You can read the official synopsis for the Resident Evil series below.

Resident Evil Video Games Are the Back Story for the Series

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Andrew Dabb has explained how the video games are viewed as the back story for the new show and fans can treat the official video game series as canon to the Netflix Resident Evil. Some fans have questioned the casting of Lance Reddick as Albert Wesker, as he does not physically resemble the video game version of the character. Dabb has stood by the casting by explaining that Reddick was the best actor who’d auditioned for the part and that it’d have hurt the series to cast a different actor for “aesthetic” reasons.

“I think when you are casting in the modern day and age, if you are limiting yourself based on, ‘Well, this character is blonde, so we gotta look at blonde actors,’ you’re gonna find yourself in a bad position,” Dabb said, per Entertainment Weekly. “When Lance was interested in doing the part, you’re not gonna find anybody better than him to play this character — both the dad part of the character and also the more corporate killer part. At that point, you’re making the show weaker by going with someone that may be more aesthetically a match to the game. So, why would you weaken a show like that? It makes no sense to me, and luckily Netflix and Constantin as well were very much on board with that. The goal here is to do the strongest show.”

Netflix will debut the Resident Evil series on July 14, 2022.