RESIDENT EVIL
synopsis
A secret experiment…a deadly virus…a fatal mistake.
Based on the wildly popular video game series, Resident Evil is an action-packed
thriller
starring Milla Jovovich (The Fifth Element),
Michelle Rodriguez (The Fast and the Furious) and Eric Mabius (Cruel Intentions)
in a battle of good and
evil, human versus computer, the living against
the Undead.
Something terrible is lurking in the Hive, a vast
underground genetic research facility run by the Umbrella Corporation,
a faceless bio-engineering
conglomerate. A deadly viral outbreak occurs,
and in response, the Red Queen - a vast supercomputer that controls and
monitors the Hive - seals
the entire facility to contain the leak, killing
all the trapped employees.
Alice (MILLA JOVOVICH) and Rain (MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ)
must lead fellow commandos to isolate the virus that has wiped out Umbrella’s
entire
research staff. The team soon discovers, however,
that the workers are…not…really…dead. They are now the ravenous, zombie-like
Undead, and
they are prowling the hive. One bite or scratch
from an Undead causes infection and worse, instant transformation into
their kind.
Alice and the military task force have three hours
to complete their mission before the Undead threaten to overrun the Earth.
To access the Red
Queen, the team must pass through a series of
increasingly horrifying obstacles in the maze-like hive. These include
deadly lasers, mutant dogs
and a vast specimen room where Alice witnesses
the results of Umbrella’s evil experimental research. Alice soon discovers
the Undead are the
ghastly result of Umbrella’s latest project gone
awry -- the T-virus.
Initially designed to combat ageing and fight
nerve-based diseases, the T-virus has the ability to reanimate dead cells.
Alice realises that an
unknown saboteur has stolen the virus and freed
it into the hive’s atmosphere. That’s how the outbreak occurred. Who would
do such a thing, and
why?
Confronting the giant computer, Rain demands that
she guide them to the surface. The Red Queen agrees, but insists that no
one who is infected
will be allowed to escape. Unless of course,
they can find the Anti-Virus first. Standing in their way is a genetically
mutated experiment that is now a
vicious creature known as “the Licker,” bent
on destroying them all. The Licker’s strength increases with each victim
it slays–making the team’s job
even more deadly.
Will the team defeat the Red Queen and find the
anti-virus in time? Or are they doomed to turn Undead? Who, if anyone,
will escape the evil Hive
alive?
Screen Gems/Constantin Film/Davis Films present
Resident Evil, written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (“Mortal Kombat,”
“Event Horizon”).
Resident Evil is based on the best-selling Capcom
computer game series and stars Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric
Mabius, James
Purefoy, Martin Crewes and Colin Salmon and is
produced by Bernd Eichinger, Samuel Hadida, Jeremy Bolt and Paul W.S. Anderson.
Robert
Kulzer, Victor Hadida, Daniel Kletsky and Yoshiki
Okamoto are executive producers. The film is a co-production with New Legacy
Film Ltd. and
Davis Films in association with Impact Pictures.
Resident Evil will be released March 15, 2002. |