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Umbrella Academy ’s Tom Hopper geeks out over joining the Resident Evil franchise
Four of the Resident Evil movies were shot in Ontario, Canada.
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Choose your character carefully.
SOMEBODY PINCH Tom Hopper. Best known as Luther Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy, the towering 6’ 5” British actor has saved the day from apocalypticsized threats twice. But it’s his role as Albert Wesker in Resident Evil:
Welcome To Raccoon City that currently has him giddy. Based on the Capcom videogame series, not only does Raccoon City serve as a reboot to the movie franchise, but it also provides an origin story for Wesker.
“What was important for director Johannes Roberts was he wanted to pull on that nostalgia of the game, and especially the ’90s vibe,” Hopper tells Red Alert.