Until Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Danna’s most high profile assignments were for the TV series ‘Kung Fu: The Legend Continues’ in the early 1990s, the Irish-flavored crime drama ‘The Boondock Saints’ (1999), the modern Othello adaptation ‘O’ (2001), and the critically acclaimed documentary about the life of film producer Robert Evans, ‘The Kid Stays in the Picture’ (2002). For the sequel, Anderson made the surprising choice of hiring Canadian composer Jeff Danna, younger brother of Mychael. The result was actually surprisingly successful, an angry, in-your-face collision of styles which suited well the modern and kinetic style of film making (although it was less successful on album).
The score for the first Resident Evil movie in 2002 fused together the orchestral know-how of Marco Beltrami with the confrontational rock stylings of Brian Warner, better known to the world as Marilyn Manson.
However, their biggest challenge lies with the seemingly unstoppable Nemesis, a super-human mutation created by the virus, whose sole goal is to kill every living thing… With the deadly T-virus on the loose and turning the good citizens of the city into slavering zombies, Alice and the other survivors she encounters (Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Zack Ward) must fight their way through the hordes to safety. Anderson, essentially picks up where the first movie left off, with ass-kicking heroine Alice (Milla Jovovich), having battled hordes of virus-infected zombies and other assorted nasties, escaping alive from the Hive of the Umbrella Corporation building, only to find Raccoon City a desolate wasteland. Apocalypse, which is once again is written by British sci-fi specialist Paul W.S. The first Resident Evil movie made $101 million worldwide in 2002, and was the highest-grossing movie of the year for the Sony subsidiary Screen Gems. The original game is one of the most-played and best-loved survival horror games in history, and is credited as being the inspiration for an entire genre of similar experiences. As the second in a projected series of movies spinning off from the classic Capcom computer game Biohazard, Resident Evil: Apocalypse has a big reputation to live up to.