Trivia / Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

• Dueling Works: The film was released less than a year before another Live-Action Adaptation of the Resident Evil franchise, the Netflix series Resident Evil.
• Fake American: Majority of the main cast aren't Americans.
  • Robbie Amell is Canadian. Chris Redfield is American.
  • Hannah John Kamen is British Norwegian/Nigerian. Jill Valentine is Japanese/French American.
  • Kaya Scodelario is British Brazilian ^note  ethnically she is half English, quarter Portuguese quarter Italian . Claire Redfield is American.
  • Avan Jogia is Anglo-Indian Canadian ^note  more specifically he is Canadian born and raised to a British Indian Hindu father of Gujarati ethnicity and a Canadian mother from mixed white ethnicities) . Leon Scott Kennedy is White American.
  • Tom Hopper is British English. Albert Wesker is typically American
  • Lily Gao is Chinese-born Canadian. Ada Wong is Chinese-American.
• Promoted Fanboy: Johannes Roberts was vocal about his fondness for the series, and repeatedly stated he wanted to make this film for the fans of the games.
• Separated-at-Birth Casting: Lauren Bill, the actress for child!Claire, bears a striking resemblance to Kaya Scodelario, and believably looks like she would grow up to look like her.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: Hannah John-Kamen and Avan Jogia disabled their respective social media accounts after the release of the film, due to racist harassment campaigns from the video game fanbase.

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