Click-baits are articles with flashy titles or announcing interesting information, to encourage users visit the website (and count the visit for all the publicity around, that's the lucrative core). Resident Evil is a popular franchise, so when there are not many official announcements, these leechers gets into action.
Many times, these fake news, are copied pasted from one website to another, and from one blog to another, then arrives the confusions, when a writer, sees the information so expanded, many directly assumes its veracity without check sources, (and then they share it too!).
Other times, communities shares the rumour, even if it's just to keep encouraging communication. (When there are not official news, at least rumours fills some conversation topics), I think it's fine, as long a people don't get really excited (in order to prevent an unjustified disappointment).
If they ever gets confirmed by someone official (Capcom, or Netflix) then yay, go ahead and board the hype train, but till then... -.- Too many fake news have been around the past 20 years in the RE world.
Particularly this case:
That picture arised the past year (RE 6º Alice movie had finished and Capcom are planning next step, then one pilot from an independent for a RE thematic series arised, (Dave, from the intended Arklays project, a RE prequel) but it got rejected, then someone took the baton and show that image in a social network, explaining that Netflix will make a RE series better than the one that was rejected, but the image it used, is actually a cropped one from another movie poster.
Haunted Mansion:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunted_Mansion_(film)If Capcom or Netflix ever announced any project, they wouldn't risk to use any copyright image modification to promote their idea, even if it's an initial prototype. The post hadn't got much more information anyways.
Months after, came this Twitter post that JTeghius's is sharing and referencing this website:
deadline.com/2019/01/resident-evil-tv-series-in-works-netflix-1202541277/ wrote by Nellie Andreeva, a journalist that somehow, she has "heared" (we don't know from who or where) that the producer of the RE Alice movies, is developing a series with Netflix (apart of the supposed the horror movie reboot that also has been rumored).
And I laugh with this line of hers: "No one is commenting but I hear the plan" Lol, what a lucky journalist she is, follow her, it's the only place where you will can learn secrets that no-one else knows.
Maybe this woman found the old Netflix hoax and she believed it, maybe she just saw a chance to make other of those click-bait (The article fits in the click-bait style and my add-blocker stooped 11 adverts from that website) Maybe she is saying the truth! and I´m bad person for don't trust her. But if I have to throw bets, I throw 90% in the fake basket.
Your Facebook post, despite being recent, it still referencing the same Deadline article from the old January month, I think it's more the community manager found the new and shared it ilusionated without contrast it. But if there would have been anything new, ¿why don't show it in these 6 months? ¿why keep sharing an old article and an old rumour?, there has been popular movie fairs and places where new info could have been shared. But yet, nothing new...
What we actually have?
- There is a RE8 in the works, and there is a project where Capcom is looking for RE fans feedback,
- in the movies, they are planning a new way to continue the movie RE franchise, it surelly will be a reboot not a new Alice movie, but it doesn't know yet how, (it was planned make a pure horror and slash movie and were planning to hire the "Saw" movies director, but this said that he rejected the project to work on others and ( that he hated when producers use his name for promotion before he confirms lol XD ), so new series is not impossible, but I think they have more the eye put on Hollywood movie.
Away of there, nothing else is confirmed.