

Located deep beneath Raccoon City, the Hive has been sealed by The Red Queen (the AI that controls the Hive) due to the release of the T-virus into the facility. In the film, the Umbrella Corporation operates a top-secret genetic research facility named the Hive. By May 2001, Columbia TriStar was in final negotiations to acquire North American distribution rights to the film and budgeted it at $40 million. In 2001, Milla Jovovich was cast as Alice, the protagonist of the film.

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Anderson stated the film would not include any tie-ins with the video game series as "under-performing movie tie-ins are too common and Resident Evil, of all games, deserved a good celluloid representation". Anderson was hired by Sony Pictures to write a screenplay in late 2000, Anderson was announced as director and writer. While Romero's script was supported by a number of people from Capcom and Constantin, it was rejected by Constantin producer Bernd Eichinger, as well as Capcom producer Yoshiki Okamoto, who said that Romero was fired as his script was poor. His script was later rejected and he was ultimately dropped. Romero was hired by Sony Pictures and Capcom to direct and write Resident Evil.

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