ABU DHABI: Filmmaker Denis Villeneuve and actor Timothee Chalamet have unveiled a new, action-packed trailer for “Dune: Part Three.”
The IMAX fan event on Wednesday offered audiences their most extensive glimpse yet of the eagerly awaited conclusion to the director’s sci-fi trilogy.
The film sees Chalamet reprise his role as Paul Atreides, picking up the story after his rise to power at the end of “Dune: Part Two.” Drawing on Frank Herbert’s novel “Dune Messiah,” the latest installment is set 17 years later and examines the far-reaching consequences of Paul’s reign as emperor.
Fielding questions from fans at theaters from around the world, including Los Angeles, Dallas, London, Berlin, Toronto and Abu Dhabi, Chalamet responded to the new trailer’s implications that Paul appears to be more villain than hero in this new installment.
“I hope it’s more nuanced than that,” he said. “I think it’s one of the great things in Frank Herbert’s book: I think I read somewhere that it’s why he wrote ’Messiah’ as a follow up to the first book, is people mistook Paul as a classic hero and he sort of wanted to warn the world what could happen when people blindly follow leaders and that even the good can be corrupted.”
