How Resident Evil 5 Resurrected Michelle Rodriguezs Rain

How Resident Evil 5 Resurrected Michelle Rodriguez’s Rain

While her character Rain died in the original movie, here’s how Resident Evil: Retribution brought Michelle Rodriguez’s character back.

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How Resident Evil 5 Resurrected Michelle Rodriguezs Rain

Here’s how Resident Evil: Retribution brought Michelle Rodriguez’s Rain back to life – twice. The Resident Evil game series helped revolutionize the survival horror genre and it didn’t take long for talk of a movie adaptation to emerge, with George A. Romero (Dawn Of The Dead) originally hired to direct. Romero’s script was reasonably faithful to the plot of the first game, but he was later dropped over creative disagreements. Paul W.S Anderson was hired instead and had experience with the video game movie genre thanks to helming Mortal Kombat.

Anderson opted for a prequel approach for his Resident Evil, aiming to show how the zombie outbreak happened in the first game. The movie introduced a new heroine in Alice, played by Milla Jovovich; the plot was also loosely structured around Alice In Wonderland. The movie proved to be a success, though the sequel disregarded any direct links to the games by introducing characters like Jill Valentine and the Nemesis into its continuity. The movie series ran for another four movies and made over a billion worldwide, making them the most successful films based on a game. A movie reboot is currently in the works alongside a Netflix series.

One of Michelle Rodriguez’s earliest movie roles was in Resident Evil, where she played Umbrella commando Rain Ocampo. Rain and her team are dispatched to infiltrate the underground Hive laboratory to contain the outbreak of the t-Virus. Needless to say, things quickly go bad; most of her team is wiped out by the undead or the Red Queen A.I.’s security systems, and Rain is bitten by zombies on numerous occasions. Despite being injected with the antidote in the finale it’s too late, and Rain dies from her injuries and comes back as a zombie. Fellow survivor Matt stops her with a bullet to the head.

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That should have been that for Michelle Rodriguez in the series, but Resident Evil: Retribution had other plans. In this fifth entry, Alice is captured by Umbrella and brought to an elaborate, underground testing facility. This holds recreations of cities like New York and Moscow and was built so the company could test the virus in a controlled environment. This facility is populated with clones, of which spy Ada Wong explains there are 50 basic models. It turns one of these models is of Rain, and there’s more than one. A civilian clone of Alice encounters “Good” Rain during the opening outbreak sequence, who later meets and helps regular Alice to escape.

The main version is “Bad” Rain, another Umbrella commando obsessed with stopping Alice’s escape. They get into multiple gunfights before a final battle, where Rain proves almost unkillable due to the regenerating Las Plagas parasite she injects herself with. Bad Rain is eventually killed when zombies drag her down into an icy grave. A deleted scene showed off another, zombified version of Rain that Alice shoots, teasing the eventual clone reveal. So technically, Resident Evil: Retribution brought Rain back just to kill her three more times. A detail removed from the script also explained the commando team from the first film was made up of clones too. Michelle Rodriguez is no stranger to dying in a franchise film, only to inexplicably be brought back either. Her character Letty died in 2009’s Fast & Furious only to be revealed as alive in Fast & Furious 6.

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