The Night Of The Living Dead, it was only fitting for George A. Romero to be hired to write and direct; the horror icon had also helmed a live-action Resident Evil 2 commercial for Japan. Despite his script sticking close to the first game, Romero was fired when producers were unhappy with his work.
Instead, they handed the reins to Alice In Wonderland and while it received mixed reviews, it was a solid hit. The series would eventually spawn five sequels, all starring Jovovich, while Anderson had a hand in writing or directing each entry.
In keeping with the Alice In Wonderland connections, one of the main villains in the first Resident Evil is the Red Queen. This A.I. controls Umbrella's underground lab The Hive and once there's a t-Virus outbreak, she immediately gases and kills all the scientists to prevent its possible escape to the surface. A rescue team later arrives and she slays about half the group with security traps before being shut down. Her actions are quite logical from her viewpoint; if the virus gets out it could infect the entire world, so she's taken extreme measures to prevents its escape.
The Red Queen was ultimately shut down in the finale of Resident Evil and Alice later entered her more friendly "sister" program the White Queen in the third entry. The Red Queen made a surprise return for 2012's Resident Evil: Retribution, where she's not only in control of the Umbrella Prime facility - which Umbrella used to test their bioweapons in a controlled environment - she's also planning to wipe out humanity. The movie ends on the tease that Alice and her friends will be facing off with the Red Queen for an epic final battle in the next movie.
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While the Resident Evil movies were never big on character development, the Red Queen's switch to savior doesn't track. In the first movie, she's intent on containing the virus outbreak no matter the cost and in part five, she's waging a full-on battle with the human survivors to destroy the infection once and for all. Her change of heart seemingly comes out of nowhere, but it was clearly influenced by the main story twist. Having the Red Queen be basically the young version of Alice - fittingly played by Jovovich and Anderson's daughter Ever Gabo Anderson - ties everything together neatly, but it's still a narrative mess and was obviously never the original intention.
The second movie Resident Evil: Apocalypse was supposed to reveal young Angela Ashford was the basis for the Red Queen, which was dropped since it was a superfluous detail. The final Resident Evil movie's redemption lets the Red Queen off the hook for committing mass genocide because she had a last-minute, poorly established change of heart when she probably should have been the ultimate villain.
