Netflix's Resident Evil Can Get Live-Action Wesker Right With Lance Reddick
Netflix's Resident Evil series can finally get Albert Wesker right with Lance Reddick. The Milla Jovovich Resident Evil films largely went their own path from the games, though they borrowed creatures, setting, and some characters. In the game series, Albert Wesker was one of the main antagonists of the saga, where he was revealed to be a traitor in the original title before becoming a shadowy threat in a few later entries. 2009's Resident Evil 5 again featured him as the main villain and he was finally defeated and killed by long-time foe Chris Redfield after a failed attempt to infect the world with a new bioweapon.
Wesker was also a villain in the Resident Evil movie series, first appearing in the third movie Extinction. Sadly, not only did the character have not to do but order subordinates to keep him posted on corporate developments, he doesn't even stand up. Wesker was much more active in Resident Evil: Afterlife — which borrowed some plot elements from the fifth game — and briefly became an ally to Jovovich's Alice in the next outing Retribution. He was downgraded to a mere henchman for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, where Iain Glen's Dr. Isaac was revealed as the true engineer behind Umbrella's apocalypse.
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Despite being cast as a different villain, it feels like a missed opportunity that the movies didn't just cast Glen as Wesker in the first place. Wesker was played by two different performers across the Jovovich franchise; Jason O'Mara in Extinction and Shawn Roberts for the next three movies, including returning for The Final Chapter's oddly emotional ending. O'Mara was given so little to do its hard to judge his performance, while
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