Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City End Credits Scene Explained By Director

 Writer/director Johannes Roberts breaks down the Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City end-credits scene and explains its video game implications.

Warning: SPOILERS lie ahead for Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

Writer/director Johannes Roberts breaks down the Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City end-credits scene and explains its video game implications. The 47 Meters Down filmmaker becomes the second to try his hand at bringing Capcom's Resident Evil games to the big screen, with Constantin Film previously working with Paul W.S. Anderson for a six-film franchise led by Milla Jovovich. Though having received mostly negative reviews through its run, the franchise did bring in over $1.2 billion in its original run, becoming the highest-grossing film series based on a video game.

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City serves as a reboot of the film franchise and adapts the first two games in the source series as the titular Midwestern town suffers from an outbreak of a zombie virus with seeming ties to the mysterious Umbrella Corporation. Kaya Scodelario leads the cast of the film as Claire Redfield alongside Avan Jogia as Leon S. Kennedy, Robbie Amell as Chris Redfield, Hannah John-Kamen as Jill Valentine, Tom Hopper as Albert Wesker, Donal Logue as RPD Chief Brian Irons and Neal McDonough as Umbrella scientist William Birkin. Following multiple pandemic-related delays, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City hit theaters this past November and is finally coming home.

In time for the film's digital release, IGN has released a Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City clip. The video sees writer/director Johannes Roberts breaking down the film's end-credits scene, citing its look as a "fan-based" recreation of the opening screen from the original Resident Evil game and explaining the importance of Ada Wong's introduction to the story, including helping establish the "iconic look of Wesker." 

The Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City end-credits scene worked towards setting up the larger world of a potential sequel for the film. In Capcom's source video games, Wesker served as a primary antagonist to the likes of the Redfield siblings and Leon alongside the Umbrella Corporation following his reveal to be a double agent working against his S.T.A.R.S. companions in an effort to obtain the Tyrant monster and sell it to an Umbrella rival. Though the film ultimately downgraded his betrayal to being a largely unknowing accessory to a mysterious organization, Wesker still served as a double agent to his STARS team and was seemingly killed in his actions, only for the end-credits to see him revived by his employer, Ada Wong.

In the lead up to the film's release, Roberts frequently discussed his various ideas of what a Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City could be. The movie itself set up a number of these potential threads to continue, including the Ashford twins of Resident Evil — Code: Veronica, Leon's Spanish adventure in Resident Evil 4 and Chris and Wesker facing off again in Resident Evil 5. With Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City now available on digital platforms, only time will tell if the film can boost its financial haul and net Roberts the follow-up he desires.