Anderson returned to cinema screens in 2002 with "Resident Evil", a science fiction action horror film, loosely based on the video game series of the same name by Capcom. Anderson came up with the idea of adapting the games, after playing the first couple of them for days in his apartment. Because Constantin Film, who had acquired the rights to the series, were not willing to spend more money than they already had on failed attempts (including a script by George A. Romero), Anderson convinced them to write the script, titled "The Undead", . If they liked it, he would sell it to them as a "Resident Evil" film; if not, he would take it elsewhere and try to make it unrelated to the games. Anderson saw the film as a prequel of sorts to the first game in the series, and as such did not put any characters from the games in it, a fact which was criticized by fans. Instead, the film stars Milla Jovovich as an original character named Alice. Jovovich is the only actor that reprised her role in all six films of the series. In comparison to Anderson's previous two films, "Resident Evil" was produced on a moderate budget of $33 million and became a commercial success of little over $100 million at the box office. The film also performed strongly on home video. Critically, "Resident Evil" was not received well, although, similarly to "Mortal Kombat", some reviews characterized it as one of the better attempts at adapting a video game. It received the fair rating of B by audiences on a Cinemascore poll. Its relative popularity made Capcom put homages to it in video games "Resident Evil 4" and '. Anderson did not direct, but he wrote, produced, and was otherwise heavily involved with the making of two sequels, ' (2004) and "" (2007), which completed the first of the eventual two trilogies of "Resident Evil" films. In these two sequels, Anderson began to introduce characters from the games, albeit in supporting roles compared to Alice. Both films received similarly negative reviews to the first, but were even bigger commercial successes.