The film Resident Evil is officially titled Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, and director Johannes Roberts confirmed that this is an entirely new beginning for the Resident Evil universe as it appears in the film, unrelated to Paul WS Anderson’s major adaptation. success. , there is Resident Evil [film] franchise and this film has nothing to do with it, ”said Roberts in an interview with IGN for SXSW. “It is a totally separate origin story based on the roots of the and the horror world. “