The final instalment in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi trilogy brings back Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya and Florence Piugh and introduces a nasty new villain
Timothée Chalamet may have finally escaped Oscar season, but not movie promotion – the first look at Dune: Part Three is here.
The first trailer released for the final installment in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi trilogy sees further war and political upheaval in the galaxy beyond Arrakis – plus a possible future child for Chalamet’s Paul Atreides and Chani, the Fremen warrior played by Zendaya. “If we have a girl, what should be name her?” Chani asks, suggesting the two have reconciled since the end of Part Two.
That ending, a major departure from the 1965 tome by Frank Herbert, suggested that Villeneuve will make significant changes to the sequel, 1969’s Dune: Messiah, the basis for Part Three which has long been considered too weird, meandering and dense to adapt.
The trailer for the final chapter also hints at the further expansion of Paul Atreides’s imperial rebellion, with several sneak peeks of spaceship battles, slaughter on land and a new villain in the platinum-haired Scytale, played by Robert Pattinson. “War feeds on itself,” Chalamet’s Paul tells his mother, played by Rebecca Ferguson, in ominous voiceover. “The more I fight … the more our enemies fight back. I’m doing the best that I can to protect my family. How did father do it?”
