Resident Evil, film series review - rDNA Podcast

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#ResidentEvil #FilmReview #Podcast Resident Evil is an action-horror film series based on the Japanese video game franchise of the same name by Capcom. German studio Constantin Film bought the rights to adapt the series in January 1998. In 2001, Screen Gems acquired distribution rights and hired Paul W. S. Anderson as writer and director for Resident Evil (2002). Anderson continued as writer and producer for Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) and Resident Evil: Extinction (2007), and returned as the director for Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010), Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016). The first six films follow Alice (Milla Jovovich), a character created for the films. Alice is a former security specialist and covert operative who battles the Umbrella Corporation, whose bioweapons have triggered a zombie apocalypse. Characters from the games appear, including Claire Redfield, Jill Valentine, Ada Wong, Carlos Olivera, Chris Redfield, Leon S. Kennedy, Barry Burton and antagonists Albert Wesker, the head of Umbrella Corporation, and James Marcus, Umbrella's top virologist. In 2021, a reboot film (the seventh in the film series) was made, titled Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. Despite all the installments receiving generally negative reviews from critics, the Resident Evil film series has grossed $1.2bn to date and became the highest-grossing film series based on a video game in 2012. In this regard the series was overtaken at some point in the mid-2010s by the Pokémon film series, at $1.8bn globally as of 2021. It is also the highest-grossing zombie film series, and was the highest-grossing horror film series as of 2017. Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/doseofnerdacumen

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