Latest RESIDENT EVIL: WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY Featurette Focuses On Avan Jogia’s Leon Kennedy [Video]

The hype is real for Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City coming exclusively to theaters on November 24th. The film promises to be a faithful adaptation of the video games and by the looks of this one, we’ll get a bit of RE 1, RE2, and RE3: Nemesis, in this flick.

Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap) stars in the film as iconic video game character Leon Kennedy, and the character gets the spotlight in a brand new featurette for the movie, today.

“We really wanted to go back to the original second game, where he’s quite a nerdy, reluctant hero,” Roberts explains. “We see Leon become the character gamers will recognize.”

Here’s the full official synopsis for the new movie…

“Returning to the terrifying roots of the massively popular franchise, fan and filmmaker Johannes Roberts brings the games of the billion dollar franchise and the most successful video game adaptation in history to life for a whole new generation of fans.”

“Once the booming home of 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.”

The cast includes Kaya Scodelario (Crawl) as Claire Redfield alongside Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp) as Jill Valentine, Robbie Amell (Upload) as Chris Redfield, Tom Hopper (The Umbrella Academy) as Albert Wesker, Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap) as Leon S. Kennedy, and Neal McDonough (Yellowstone) as William Birkin.

Additionally, Donal Logue (Silent Night, “Gotham”) is playing Chief Irons in the “origin story adaptation” of the games that’s set in Raccoon City in 1998.