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Resident Evil (2002)

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Resident Evil is based on a screenplay by English film director, Paul W.S. Anderson, who based his story on a survival horror video game series, created by Japanese video game designer Shinji Mikami and released in 1996 as Biohazard in Japan and Resident Evil in English-speaking countries. Resident Evil is the first in a series of three movies, the other two being (2) Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) and (3) Resident Evil: Extinction (2007).

Yes. Resident Evil: Genesis (2004) by Keith R.A. DeCandido is a novelization of Resident Evil (the first movie). DeCandido has also written novelizations of the other two movies: Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), and Resident Evil: Extinction (2007). There is also a Japanese novelization of the first Resident Evil film by Japanese writer Osamu Makino titled Biohazard (2002). Makino's novel is unrelated to DeCandido's version. There are also a number of novelizations of the videogame series, but these are unrelated to the movies.

It's possible because CAPCOM proabaly thought people would think "Why should buy the games when we could just watch the movies". Which would explain why george a. romaro was fired when his script was similar to the games. So Paul W.S. Anderson was hired because his movies kept the atmosphere of the games but a different story.

You find out in the next movie (Apocolypse) that Dr. Ashford created this virus to help his 'sick' daughter to be able to walk again. Also, as seen in the first movie, Umbrella makes most of its money from viral weaponry. Therefore, they were just keeping up and staying ahead when it comes to new weapons.

You can only turn into a zombie after you die. Red Queen killed everyone but as they were already infected they turned into zombies. You can also see this with 'Rain', she turns into a zombie the moment she dies although she had been infected way before that.

The anti-virus works because it cures Carlos Olivera in Resident Evil: Apocalypse. It probably didn't work on Rain because she was bitten five times and they gave it to her the second she began to turn into a zombie.

1)The zombies eat flesh and blood because the virus does not re-animated all blood cells so the zombies need to feed on freash blood to survive and the zombies don't have freash blood. Also they don't eat things infected by the virus.

2) answer by bobpayne: Think of the zombies not as just smelly old corpses, but human biology on a bigger scale. Zombies come from the T-Virus (and the key word is VIRUS). In order for a virus to work, it needs healthy cells to replicate; NOT cells that are already infected. So think of the Infected vs. the Uninfected as simply a large scale model of the virus itself. A working virus (i.e. the zombies) need healthy cells (i.e. the uninfected) in order to successfully replicate.

3) If you play the first Director's Cut game, you can see a few cases in the mansion basement and an second floor blue hallway of zombies eating one another. But the movie's idea would be different than in the games.