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Resident Evil (film)

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Resident Evil
A black and red picture shows Alice standing back to back with Rain. Alice is holding a machine gun and wearing a red dress, cutaway showing a skirt. The tagline below reads "Survive the horror".
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
Produced by Paul W. S. Anderson
Jeremy Bolt
Bernd Eichinger
Samuel Hadida
Written by Paul W. S. Anderson
Based on Resident Evil
by Capcom
Narrated by Jason Isaacs
Starring Milla Jovovich
Michelle Rodriguez
Eric Mabius
James Purefoy
Martin Crewes
Colin Salmon
Music by Marco Beltrami
Marilyn Manson
Cinematography David Johnson
Editing by Alexander Berner
Studio Constantin Film
New Legacy Films
Davis Films
Impact Pictures
Distributed by Constantin Film (Germany)
Pathé (UK)
Metropolitan Filmexport (France)
Screen Gems (US)
Release dates
  • March 15, 2002 (US)
  • March 21, 2002 (Germany)
  • April 3, 2002 (France)
  • July 12, 2002 (UK)
Running time 100 minutes[1]
Country Germany[2][3]
United Kingdom[2][3]
France[2]
United States
Language English
Budget $33 million
Box office $102,441,078
Resident Evil is a 2002 German-British-French-American science fiction horror film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. The film stars Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez and Colin Salmon. It is the first installment in the Resident Evil film series, which is based on the Capcom survival horror video game series Resident Evil.
Borrowing elements from the video games Resident Evil and Resident Evil 2, the film follows amnesiac heroine Alice and a band of Umbrella Corporation commandos as they attempt to contain the outbreak of the T-virus at a secret underground facility. The film received negative reviews from critics but grossed more than $102 million worldwide.

Plot

Underneath Raccoon City exists a genetic research facility called the Hive, owned by the Umbrella Corporation. A thief steals the genetically engineered T-virus and contaminates the Hive with it. In response, the facility's artificial intelligence, the Red Queen, seals the Hive and kills everyone inside.
Alice awakens in a deserted mansion with amnesia. She dresses and checks the mansion and she is subdued by an unknown person. A group of commandos break into the mansion and arrest the person, who introduces himself as Matt Addison, who has just transferred as a cop in Raccoon P.D. The commandos explain that everyone in the group, except Matt, is an employee of the Umbrella Corporation, and that Alice and her partner Spence are guards for a Hive entrance under the disguise of a couple living in the mansion. Five hours prior, The Red Queen shut down the entire facility and released amnesia inducing gas. The commando team does not know why the Red Queen sealed the facility. The group travels to the underground train under the mansion that leads to the Hive, where they find Spence. They start the train and travel into the facility.
They reach the Queen's chamber, but it is protected by a laser defense system that kills four of the commandos. Kaplan disables the Red Queen and the power fails, opening all of the doors in the Hive. This releases the zombified staff and containment units containing Lickers, mutated animals. During a battle with the zombies, Rain is bitten and J.D is killed. Alice begins regaining her memories, but Matt and Alice are separated from the group. Matt looks for information about his sister Lisa, while Alice encounters several infected dogs and surprises herself when she reflexively defends herself with martial arts.
Matt finds his sister zombified. Alice saves him and Matt explains that he and Lisa were environmental activists. Lisa infiltrated Umbrella to smuggle out evidence of illegal experiments. Alice remembers she was Lisa's contact in the Hive and was intending to bring down Umbrella, but does not tell Matt. The survivors reunite at the Queen's chamber. The commandos explain that they have one hour before the Hive will seal automatically, trapping them inside. Alice and Kaplan activate the Red Queen in order to find an exit and rig the Red Queen's circuit breaker so they can shut her down remotely to force her cooperation. As they escape through maintenance tunnels, they are ambushed by zombies. Kaplan is bitten and separated from the group.
Alice remembers that an anti-virus is in the lab, but when they arrive it is missing. Spence regains his memory, realizing he stole and released the virus. He hid the T-virus and anti-virus on the train. Spence is bitten, traps the survivors in the lab, and heads to the train. He retrieves the anti-virus, but is ambushed and killed by a Licker as the survivors watch on a security monitor. The Red Queen offers to spare Alice and Matt if they kill Rain, whose health is fading and who has been infected too long for the anti-virus to work reliably. As the Licker attempts to reach them, Rain tells Alice to kill her. Alice refuses, then a power outage occurs. The lab door opens to reveal Kaplan, who disabled the Red Queen to open the door. They reach the train, where Alice dispatches a zombified Spence and takes the anti-virus.
On the train, they inject Rain and Kaplan with the anti-virus. However, the Licker is hiding on the train, and attacks them, clawing Matt. The licker kills Kaplan and hurls him from the train. Alice and Matt battle the Licker. Rain turns into a zombie and attacks Matt, but he kills her. They open a trapdoor, dropping the Licker under the train, killing it. Matt and Alice escape the Hive as the containment doors close.
At the mansion, Matt's wound begins mutating. Before Alice can give him the anti-virus the mansion doors burst open and a group of Umbrella scientists and commandos seize them. They subdue Alice and take Matt away, revealing he is to be put into the Nemesis Program, and they intend to re-open the Hive. Alice attempts to fight them off, but is knocked unconscious.
Some time later, Alice awakens at the Raccoon City Hospital strapped to an examination table, with no memory of what happened since her capture. After escaping, she goes outside to find Raccoon City abandoned. A newspaper clipping shows that the T-virus spread to the surface after Umbrella reopened the Hive, creating an army of undead that devastated the city. Alice arms herself with a shotgun from an abandoned police car.

Cast

Main article: List of Resident Evil characters

Production

Pre-production

In 1999, Sony and Capcom greenlit a Resident Evil film with George A. Romero signed on as the film's director and screenplay writer. Romero's association with Capcom, the Resident Evil video game series creators, had extended from 1998 when Romero directed an ad campaign for Biohazard 2 (Resident Evil 2) in Japan. Romero stated in an official appearance in Universal Studio's Talk City chatroom that he had his secretary play the entire game through and record the gameplay so he could study it as a resource. Romero's screenplay was based on the first Resident Evil game and included characters from the video games. Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine were the lead characters, involved in a romantic relationship. Barry Burton, Rebecca Chambers, Ada Wong, and Albert Wesker were to also appear. The ending to the film would have been similar to that of the best ending to the first Resident Evil game.[4] Romero's script was disapproved of and production was placed into development hell.[5] Capcom producer Yoshiki Okamoto explained to the editors of Electronic Gaming Monthly that "Romero's script wasn't good, so Romero was fired".[6] In February 2000, Romero revealed in an interview with DGA magazine that "I don't think they were into the spirit of the video game and wanted to make it more of a war movie, something heavier than I thought it should be. So I think they just never liked my script."[7] As Romero's script was a close, but not full, adaptation of the game, Capcom believed fans would feel that the film had been altered too much from the game and that newcomers would dislike the premise.[7]
Hired by Sony, Paul W. S. Anderson wrote a screenplay, which was ultimately favored over Romero's.[7] In late 2000, Anderson was announced as director and writer, and Resident Evil re-entered pre-production stages.[8] Anderson stated the film would not include any tie-ins with the video game series as "under-performing movie tie-ins are too common and Resident Evil, of all games, deserved a good celluloid representation".[9]

Casting

In early 2001, Michelle Rodriguez,[10] James Purefoy[11] and Milla Jovovich[12] were the first of the cast to be signed on the project. David Boreanaz was intended to portray the male cop lead of Matt Addison; however, he turned down the role to continue work on the WB series Angel.[13] Boreanaz suggested that he was in negotiations to have a smaller role in the film, claiming "Resident Evil is still there, a possibility, So, yeah, I'll see what happens",[13] but he later declined the role. The role of Matt Addison then went to Eric Mabius who was cast in March 2001,[13] along with Heike Makatsch, who was cast as Matt Addison's sister Lisa Addison, an employee working for Umbrella's Hive facility.[14]

Production and story development

In early March 2001, it was announced that half of the film would be shot in Adlershof Studios in Berlin and its surroundings.[15] Principal photography began on March 5, 2001 at numerous locations including the then unfinished station U-Bahnhof Bundestag of the Berlin U-Bahn, Landsberger Allee, Kaserne Krampnitz and the Schloss Linstedt.[16] Locations included The Spencer Mansion and The Hive. The film's ending in Raccoon City was shot in Toronto, Canada.[17] Filming concluded and post-production on the film began on 19 May 2001.[18]
The film's score and soundtrack were composed by Clint Mansell,[19] Marco Beltrami and Marilyn Manson[20] during mid-2001. Manson described the score and soundtrack as being more "electronic" than any of his other previous work.[21]
The film was originally subtitled as "Resident Evil: Ground Zero"[15][22] when the movie was considered a prequel to the games, however the subtitle was removed due to the 9/11 attacks.[23] The film's first plot as of March 16, 2001 revealed that Jovovich's Alice and Rodriguez's Rain were the leaders of a commando team sent in to prevent a viral outbreak from spreading to the rest of the world,[14] however those details were later changed.
The film contains various references to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. the obvious being the main character's name; another is the use of a white rabbit for testing the T-Virus. The wall that opens to the train station appears as a mirror (Through the Looking-Glass), the Red Queen and her behavior, wanting to behead/kill people, are references to the book; the Red Queen's first kill is actually a beheading.[24] In addition, the Red Queen's character was added into the film's story as an homage to HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey.[16]
During production, professional dancers were hired to star as zombies as they had better control of their body movements.[23] While computer effects were used on some zombies, much of the undead appearances were accomplished through make-up while their movements were a more laissez-faire approach, as Anderson told the actors to move however they thought a zombie would, given their conditions.[23] Whilst filming, there was a shortage of manpower where the available dancers were not enough to represent the required numbers of undead, however some of Capcom's executives and several of the film producers including Jeremy Bolt agreed to make appearances.[23] The film's stunt coordinator also made an appearance as the dog trainer while Bolt's girlfriend and sister both appeared as zombies.[23]

Marketing and release

In March 2001, the official website was set up, which revealed the film's original October 26, 2001 release[25] and a redirect to the film's distributor Constantin Films.[26] The website was fully opened in July 2001, and composed of images, plot info, character biographies and downloads.[27] The film was planned to have an R-rated classification, however was overruled by Anderson, claiming he wanted a PG-13 rating as it would best suit a younger audience.[28] In January 2002, the film was officially announced to contain an R rating.[29]
In May 2001, it was announced that Sony Pictures Entertainment would distribute the film in North America.[30] It was suggested by Capcom executives that the film would not be released in 2001, but rather in 2002,[31] which was later confirmed by Sony in August 2001.[32] The film was set for release on 5 April 2002 before being pushed forward to a 15 March release.[33]
In December 2001, Sony gave fans a chance to design the film's poster with a prize of an undisclosed amount of cash, a free screening of the film, and with the final design being the film's poster.[34] On February 16, 2002, Nick Des Barres, a 23-year-old aspiring actor and ex-video game magazine designer, was announced as the winner of the competition.[35] The film's trailer and clips were released in late January[36] and early February 2002.[37]
On June 29, 2004, over two years after the film's release, a novelization by Keith R. A. DeCandido was published.[38] DeCandido also wrote novelizations for the second film, which was published only two months later, and the third film in 2007.

Box office

The film opened in 2,528 theaters and grossed $17,707,106 on its opening weekend (March 15–17, 2002). The film grossed $40,119,709 domestically and $102,441,078 worldwide.[39]

Sequels

After commercial success at the box office, a sequel, Apocalypse, was released in 2004. This was followed in 2007 by Extinction, in 2010 by Afterlife and in 2012 by Retribution. Anderson did not direct the second and third films due to filming commitments with Alien vs. Predator and Death Race,[40] but instead functioned as the scriptwriter and producer on both. These films were directed by Alexander Witt and Russell Mulcahy respectively, while Anderson returned to direct the fourth and fifth films in the franchise.[41]

Critical reaction

Resident Evil received a 34% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 121 reviews.[42] Robert K. Elder from the Chicago Tribune stated that the film "updates the zombie genre with an anti-corporate message while still scaring its audience and providing heart-pounding action",[42] while Owen Gleiberman from Entertainment Weekly noted that the film is as "impersonal in its relentlessness as the video-game series that inspired it."[42]
Both Resident Evil and the sequel appear on Roger Ebert's most hated films list, published in 2005.[43] In the review of Resident Evil, Ebert describes the film as a zombie movie set in the 21st century where "large metallic objects make crashing noises just by being looked at", and criticizes the dialogue for being a series of commands and explanations with no "small talk".[44]
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