Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson says the first movie doesn't adapt the games because it would ruin everything: 'Imagine watching Alien if, going into the cinema, someone told you they all die apart from Sigourney Weaver'

Director Paul W. S. Anderson didn't pioneer the videogame movie adaptation, but in the bad old days he was one of the very few to make decent (and commercially successful) movies out of adapting our blessed medium. I'm not going to say that stuff like Mortal Kombat (1995) or Resident Evil (2002) are high art, and there's some absolutely honking stuff in his later Resident Evil sequels, but Anderson's adaptations always felt like they understood the source material, particularly when it comes to cinematography and set design...