It has been nearly 20 years since Paul W.S. Anderson took a beloved survival horror video game series and made it into one of the most successful and polarizing film franchises of the 21st Century. In 2002, the director, who made a name for himself with 1995’s over-the-top Mortal Kombat just seven years earlier, took a turn from what many fans expected to see from the video game adaptation and gave audiences a new spin on Resident Evil, which ended up being a hit despite its lack of tie-ins with the source material. But how the film became a success, and a talking point nearly two decades later, is the result of some pretty massive behind the scenes facts dating back to at least the late 1990s.
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