The primary trailer for director Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil film is right here, and it offers followers only a style at what this new adaptation of Capcom’s legendary survival-horror collection will appear like. It is much less zombie film and extra monster flick, and features a creature that appears ripped straight out of the latest Dune movies (earlier than you get too excited, no, it isn’t a sandworm).
A couple of minute into the trailer, the movie’s hero Bryan, in true Resident Evil vogue, drops right into a sewer. He’s then confronted with an enormous, pale-looking man sitting immediately in his path–one that bears a placing resemblance to Baron Harkonnen, the primary villain of creator Frank Herbert’s early Dune books.
The similarities to Cregger’s monster and the Baron, notably director Denis Villeneuve’s interpretation of the character seen in 2021’s Dune Half One and 2024’s Dune Half 2, are laborious to disregard. Each characters are large, pale, seemingly hairless males. In Baron Harkonnen’s case, he is so large he makes use of anti-gravity expertise to drift round. Regardless of the 2 trying almost similar, Cregger in a trailer breakdown with IGN really revealed a unique literary inspiration behind the large man within the sewer.
“A part of the inspiration for the look of this man comes from the e book Blood Meridian,” Cregger mentioned. “There is a character known as the Decide in that e book who’s described as a 7-foot-tall, perhaps albino, hairless man, and I really like the picture of that man. So it is a nod to one among my favourite books of all time.”
Whereas Cregger mentioned his Resident Evil film will not function a “Nemesis” kind character that’s typically seen within the video games, the large sewer man is, in a method, his nod to the concept. Cregger additionally mentioned he does not view Resident Evil as a zombie movie, as there are solely a handful of zombie scenes. As a substitute, it is centered on the “bizarre creature stuff” that comes from how the franchise’s T-Virus mutates the human physique.
The movie is not a direct adaptation of the video games, however will happen through the zombie outbreak in Raccoon Metropolis. Bryan’s quest will revolve round him needing to move one thing into the guts of town amidst the chaos that’s unfolding.
Although it will not immediately function characters or plotlines from the sport collection, Cregger is as a substitute adapting what it is prefer to play an entry in Capcom’s survival-horror franchise. Cregger mentioned Bryan, like gamers, should scavenge for provides, slowly accumulate higher weapons, and discover keys and methods to bypass locked doorways. The movie can even make use of “over the shoulder” and first-person digital camera views to imitate the sensation of taking part in the video games, Cregger mentioned.
Although the trailer offers a glimpse at a number of the new monsters that can await viewers, together with a fast have a look at some multi-limbed monstrosity popping out of a doorway, it appears clear Cregger is leaving loads of surprises for the completed product. We will solely assume the film ends in a secret underground lab. Resident Evil hits theaters September 18.