April 02, 2021
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You know what they say in Tinseltown – another day, another delay. Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City (as it is now officially titled) is no longer releasing in September and is being pushed back by two months.
The zombie flick is now slated to release on Nov 24, 2021 instead of its initial Sept 3 date. Sony didn’t give a reason for the push back, but the new release date means Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City will no longer release at the same time as Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
With moviegoing struggling to pick up in the US, the delay may be a strategical move to space out Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City from the big-budget superhero movie. This is not a strategy new to the movie-making industry.
franchise, from September 3 to November 24. Although
Sony did not explain the reason for the delay, Disney s
Marvel Studios announced on March 23 that it scheduled its
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings film after several COVID-19-related delays to September 3.
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is set in the late 1990s with the following story introduction:
In the once booming home of the pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City Release Date Gets Delayed Until Thanksgiving
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City Release Date Gets Delayed Until Thanksgiving
The upcoming Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City will arrive in theaters later than expected.
Zombie fans will need to wait a bit longer to return to Raccoon City. Sony Pictures has opted to delay the release of Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, the upcoming movie reboot of the popular horror video game franchise. The good news is the adaptation will still be hitting theaters later this year. It will just be later than previously expected.
Originally scheduled for September 3, the movie has now been moved back to November 24. While Sony hasn’t given any official reasons as to why it was delayed,
Variety notes that Marvel is currently also expecting to release
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings on September 3, suggesting that the former may be trying to avoid a clash.
Set as a prequel beginning before the catastrophic breakout,
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City brings back to the silver screen some of the franchise’s most beloved characters, including Claire and Chris Redfield, who’ll be played by Kaya Scodelario and Robbie Amell. Joining the duo will be Hannah John-Kamen as Jill Valentine, Avan Jogia as Leon Kennedy, Tom Hoppe as Albert Wesker, and Neal McDonough as William Birkin.
New RESIDENT EVIL Movie Delayed Till November
Sony delays Johannes Roberts’ new super violent and brilliantly nineties RESIDENT EVIL movie with Kaya Scodelario, Robbie Amell, and Hannah John-Kamen By Mike Sprague
Director Johannes Roberts’
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City will be “super violent” and “brilliantly nineties.” That’s awesome. But… today we hear Sony and Screen Gems have pushed back the live-action reboot to November 24th, 2021.
Sony has not given an official reason for the delay.
Roberts’ (
47 Meters Down, Strangers: Prey at Night) reboot will be an official origin story. One with faithful ties to the games set in 1998 on a fateful night in Raccoon City.