Resident Evil Movies Giant Creature Sure Looks Like He Came From Dune

The first trailer for director Zach Cregger's Resident Evil movie is here, and it gives fans just a taste at what this new adaptation of Capcom's legendary survival-horror series will look like. It's less zombie movie and more monster flick, and includes a creature that looks ripped straight out of the recent Dune films (before you get too excited, no, it's not a sandworm).

About a minute into the trailer, the film's hero Bryan, in true Resident Evil fashion, drops into a sewer. He's then confronted with a massive, pale-looking man sitting directly in his path--one that bears a striking resemblance to Baron Harkonnen, the main villain of author Frank Herbert's early Dune books.

The similarities to Cregger's monster and the Baron, particularly director Denis Villeneuve's interpretation of the character seen in 2021's Dune Part One and 2024's Dune Part 2, are hard to ignore. Both characters are giant, pale, seemingly hairless men. In Baron Harkonnen's case, he's so massive he uses anti-gravity technology to float around. Despite the two looking nearly identical, Cregger in a trailer breakdown with IGN actually revealed a different literary inspiration behind the giant man in the sewer.