Resident Evil (2002): 26 SECRETS Hidden for Years

Five years, three writers and two directors went into a video game adaptation that almost never got made. This video works through twenty-six things that happened behind the scenes of Resident Evil (2002), from the spec script its director wrote without being asked for one to the version of the film that has never been released. Covered along the way: the first draft a sequel made obsolete before it could be shot, the six rejected drafts a legend of the zombie genre wrote for a faithful version, the Lewis Carroll structure sitting underneath the plot, and the conversation that turned Alice from a character in need of rescue into the lead of a six-film series. Then the production itself. Berlin standing in for small-town America, a subway station that had never opened, professional dancers hired to play the undead, make-up designed from medical reference, a laser corridor built out of plaster, plus a score written by a musician who never scored another film. There is the casting nobody remembers, the deaths that were rewritten on set, the recast that was reversed after a month, and the four endings that were drafted instead of the one you know.