This has never been stated in any of the films. It appears to simply be in the "near future".
The film was intended as a sort of prequel to the first game. Showing where the outbreak originated.
And while there are certainly references to the game; such as strange camera angles, death traps, limited and dwindling ammunition, returning to a room to find the bodies have disappeared, the Licker and so on. The movie has very few direct connections to the game. As it is not meant to be a direct adaptation.
And while there are certainly references to the game; such as strange camera angles, death traps, limited and dwindling ammunition, returning to a room to find the bodies have disappeared, the Licker and so on. The movie has very few direct connections to the game. As it is not meant to be a direct adaptation.
A weather report at the start of "Apocalypse" implies it is in east Pennsylvania. However this is not addressed elsewhere.
Following the accidental escape of the T-virus in the Hive, Umbrella Corporation's secret viral weapons laboratory hidden under Raccoon City; an elite commando unit is dispatched to shut down the Red Queen, the supercomputer that controls the lab and has locked down all the scientists who live and work there. When the head of the commando team is killed by Red Queen, it becomes the mission of Alice (Milla Jovovich), who is suffering from amnesia due to exposure to nerve gas and doesn't know what she's doing there, policeman Matt Addison (Eric Mabius), and a few surviving commandos to finish the objective. Unfortunately, the virus has turned all the Umbrella scientists and employees into flesh-eating zombies. Alice and her team must make their way past zombies, mutated dogs, the Licker, and the Red Queen before the T-virus escapes and infects the rest of the world, and they must do this within one hour or be locked forever in the Hive.
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 six movies, the other five being Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), Resident Evil: Extinction (2007), Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010), Resident Evil: Retribution (2012), and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016).
The next movie (Apocalypse) establishes that Dr. Ashford created this virus to help his "sick" daughter walk again. The last entry in the film series, however, retcons this information and introduces a new origin for the T-virus: Dr. James Marcus created it trying to help his own daughter Alicia, afflicted with Progeria.
In the original game, it was created as a bio-organic weapon. The zombies were an unfortunate side effect.
In the original game, it was created as a bio-organic weapon. The zombies were an unfortunate side effect.
Most likely she killed them in the hopes that the virus had not yet infected all of them. Thus, to kill them before they inhaled the airborne virus was the safest move. Another possibility is that, being as how they were already infected, to leave them alive would cause the people to look for a way out of the hive and risk them escaping without knowing they're infected. Zombies, however, are relatively mindless and would not try to escape. Not to mention, some people would re-animate before others and to have them all trapped in a space together would just get them eaten alive. So to kill them all before they turned was a small mercy.
Also, keep in mind film adaptations of video games, comics and books are just that; adaptations. They are not direct translations.
One theory is that CAPCOM (the game creators) were afraid that people wouldn't buy the games when they could just watch the movies, so they fired director George A. Romero because his script was too similar to the games, and they hired Paul W.S. Anderson to keep the atmosphere of the games but come up with a different story. However, CAPCOM Public Relations Personnel deny that Romero was ever attached to the project and that CAPCOM had no direct influence over the movie. CAPCOM claims that it was Anderson who did not want the movie to match the game because he feared that, if viewers played the game, they would not be scared watching the movie, since they would know what is going to happen.
One theory is that CAPCOM (the game creators) were afraid that people wouldn't buy the games when they could just watch the movies, so they fired director George A. Romero because his script was too similar to the games, and they hired Paul W.S. Anderson to keep the atmosphere of the games but come up with a different story. However, CAPCOM Public Relations Personnel deny that Romero was ever attached to the project and that CAPCOM had no direct influence over the movie. CAPCOM claims that it was Anderson who did not want the movie to match the game because he feared that, if viewers played the game, they would not be scared watching the movie, since they would know what is going to happen.
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, writen by S.D. Perry, but these are unrelated to the movies.
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