The Resident Evil movies came very close to killing Jill Valentine, which could have steered the series in the right direction. The reason the first Resident Evil movie from 2002 barely resembles the original game is that director Paul W.S. Anderson was hedging his bets. He was a self-professed fan of Capcom's survival horror franchise, but George A. Romero had already been hired to direct an adaptation. Anderson thus wrote a screenplay called Undead that was heavily based on Resident Evil, planning to pitch it as an original project OR a possible Resident Evil adaptation, if Romero pulled out of the movie.

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