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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 three movies, the other two being Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) and Resident Evil: Extinction (2007).

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.

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.

You find out in the next movie (Apocalypse) that Dr. Ashford created this virus to help his 'sick' daughter to be able to walk again.

You can only turn into a zombie after you die. Red Queen killed everyone but as they were already infected they turned into zombies. You can also see this with 'Rain', she turns into a zombie the moment she dies although she had been infected way before that.

The Red Queen kills everyone by releasing the facilities fire prevention system, which contains Halon Gas, it can put out fire in offices without ruining any computers, like water sprinklers would. However if a person is exposed to a great deal of the gas there is also a risk of toxic and irritant pyrolysis products, hydrogen bromide and hydrogen fluoride. So the Red Queen poisoned the personel, however since they had already infected by the virus they were brought back as zombies.

The anti-virus works because it cures Carlos Olivera in Resident Evil: Apocalypse. It didn't work on Rain because the Red Queen herself said "This long after infection, there's no guarantee it would work." Also she was bitten numerous times in vital areas, causing the infection to spread faster.

1)The zombies eat flesh and blood because the virus does not re-animated all blood cells so the zombies need to feed on freash blood to survive and the zombies don't have fresh blood. Also they don't eat things infected by the virus.

2) Answer by bobpayne: Think of the zombies not as just smelly old corpses, but human biology on a bigger scale. Zombies come from the T-Virus (and the key word is VIRUS). In order for a virus to work, it needs healthy cells to replicate; NOT cells that are already infected. So think of the Infected vs. the Uninfected as simply a large scale model of the virus itself. A working virus (i.e. the zombies) need healthy cells (i.e. the uninfected) in order to successfully replicate.

3) If you play the first Director's Cut game, you can see a few cases in the mansion basement and an second floor blue hallway of zombies eating one another. But the movie's idea would be different than in the games.

The zombies never entered that room so it's assumed that The Red Queen had some sort of "self-cleaning" feature for the hallway.

This could also be a referance to the Resident Evil video games where typically if you kill an enemy and leave the room and then return to the room the bodies will be gone.

Most likely she killed them in the hopes that the virus had not yet infected all of them, so to kill them before they inhaled the airborne virus was the safest move. Unfortunately it had already spread and infected them.

Another possibility is that, being as how they were already infected, to leave them alive would cause the people to try and find 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. Thus keeping them contained.