Dune: Part 3 Trailer Breakdown: Who's Who and How the Story May Differ From Dune Messiah

The caller trailer for Dune: Part 3 gives fans their archetypal look astatine manager Denis Villeneuve’s highly anticipated trilogy-capper. The movie adapts Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert’s 2nd publication successful the literate series.

Several acquainted faces are backmost from the archetypal 2 Dune movies, including 1 quality that those who haven’t work the books volition beryllium shocked to see, and Part 3 introduces caller characters similar the villain played by Robert Pattinson.

At a motorboat lawsuit for the teaser trailer connected Monday, Villeneuve said helium wanted to attack Part 3 “with a caller brace of eyes.” He was primitively going to nonstop a antithetic movie aft Dune: Part 2, but helium realized determination was a palpable hunger for a Part 3 portion doing the planetary property circuit for Part 2 and interacting with fans:

“As a filmmaker, erstwhile you marque those movies, erstwhile you marque a bid of movies, you are successful a narration with the audience, and I felt a work to decorativeness the story. And I went backmost home. I said to my crew, ‘I'm taking a break. That's it. Bye-bye.’ And I went backmost location and I kept awaking successful the mediate of the nighttime with those images. I was expected to bash different movie successful the meantime, but the representation of Dune: Part 3, inspired by Dune Messiah, kept coming back, kept coming back. And I said, ‘Oh, each right, let's bash it.’”

He added, “I said to myself, ‘It's a bully thought to travel backmost to this world, not by nostalgia, but by urgency and to spell determination with a captious oculus and the thought not to beryllium self-indulgent.’

“I said to my squad that it volition beryllium a precise antithetic film, precise different, a Dune movie but with a antithetic tone, with a antithetic rhythm, with a antithetic pace. And if the archetypal movie was much of a contemplation, similar a movie of a lad exploring a caller world, and the 2nd 1 being a warfare movie, this 1 is simply a thriller. It’s much action-packed and much tense and much muscular than the 2 others.”

So let’s interruption down who’s who successful the archetypal trailer for Dune: Part 3 and what we tin glean from however the movie mightiness disagree from its root material.

We've tried to stay spoiler-free regarding the publication connected which the movie is based, but for those who privation to spell into the movie wholly untouched by immoderate cognition of the continued adventures of Paul Atreides, don't work immoderate further.

Paul Atreides: The New Emperor

The archetypal happening to enactment astir Dune: Part 3 is that the communicative picks up 17 years aft the events depicted successful Dune: Parts 1 and 2. That’s 5 years aboriginal than successful the book. And the satellite Arrakis has changed successful those ensuing years, arsenic Villeneuve explained astatine that trailer launch.

“The satellite changed successful those years. The clime is different. Arrakis is inactive the godforsaken planet, but determination are differences. We are visiting caller sets, caller places. I brought the camera successful areas of the satellite that you guys person not seen before, and we are visiting caller planets arsenic well.”

Opera hater Timothee Chalamet is backmost arsenic Paul Atreides, who rules arsenic the caller Padishah Emperor and has the humor of 61 cardinal radical connected his hands.

That’s right: the leader we followed successful the archetypal 2 movies is present a world-conquering tyrant. Embraced arsenic the messiah of the Fremen, Paul has triggered an interstellar jihad, but his prescient visions person convinced him it’s the lone mode to yet prevention humanity.

With the communicative of Paul Atreides, writer Frank Herbert wanted to subvert the romanticist conception of the populist leader and beloved governmental person by showing however specified figures tin yet pb radical to war, decease and destruction. (He cited President John F. Kennedy successful peculiar for embroiling the US successful the Vietnam War.)

At the trailer launch, Villeneuve said “we spot Paul dealing with the consequences of having excessively overmuch powerfulness and him trying to fig retired however to get retired of this rhythm of violence. And, of course, helium tin spot the future, truthful he’s benignant of invincible. We travel radical trying to overthrow him.”

The Factions Conspiring Against Emperor Atreides

Florence Pugh arsenic Empress Irulan.

Among those who would similar to spot the emperor dethroned are the Spacing Guild and everybody’s favourite scheming abstraction nuns, the Bene Gesserit. Also successful cahoots with Reverend Mother Mohiam are the Bene Tleilax – much connected them successful a spot – and adjacent Paul’s ain wife, Princess Irulan, erstwhile again played by Florence Pugh.

You’ll callback that Irulan is the girl of Shaddam IV, whom Paul deposed astatine the extremity of Part 2. Paul lone joined her for governmental reasons. In the book, Paul and Irulan person nary children and Paul keeps his Fremen existent emotion Chani arsenic his concubine.

At the trailer launch, Villeneuve said Dune: Part 3 is “a rather aggravated story, but the bosom is inactive a emotion story. The heartbeat of the movie is inactive the narration betwixt Paul and Chani.”

We don’t cognize yet however oregon adjacent if Paul and Chani get backmost unneurotic successful Part 3 since she near him astatine the extremity of the 2nd film, understandably disappointed successful him marrying the princess and becoming the emperor.

The trailer ends with a changeable of Chani that makes it look similar she’s going to conflict Paul, but that could conscionable beryllium a spot of misleading trailer trickery.

Children of Dune: Paul and Chani’s Kids

In Dune Messiah, Paul and Chani yet person twins, lad Leto II and girl Ghanima. At the trailer motorboat event, neither Zendaya nor Villeneuve would reply erstwhile asked astir whether Paul and Chani person kids. But we cognize that the twins are successful Part 3 due to the fact that it’s been reported that they’re played by Nakoa-Wolf Momoa and Ida Brooke, respectively.

Yes, you work that right: Momoa. He’s the lad of Jason Momoa, who played Duncan Idaho successful the archetypal Dune and wholly isn’t backmost for Part 3. Oh, wait. No, helium is. We’ll get to that, too.

Leto and Ghanima are pre-born with the memories of their ancestors (what the Bene Gesserit notation to arsenic “abominations”). This is wherever things get tricky, and portion we’re not going to get into afloat spoilers from the books, it would look that Dune: Part 3 whitethorn beryllium radically altering the communicative arsenic Herbert primitively laid out. The actors playing Leto and Ghanima successful Part 3 are some young, but successful Dune Messiah those characters lone ever look arsenic infants.

Perhaps Leto and Ghanima lone look arsenic portion of a framing instrumentality for Part 3 wherever the saga of what happened to their parents is relayed to them, possibly by Irulan herself, who serves arsenic fundamentally the narrator of the archetypal book. Irulan is simply a historiographer successful the books, truthful this framing instrumentality attack seems the astir straightforward mode to explicate however Paul and Chani tin person kids that property successful this movie.

Alternatively, possibly Paul sees them successful immoderate benignant of spice imaginativeness arsenic helium did his then-unborn sister Alia successful Part 2. Speaking of whom…

Anya Taylor-Joy’s Alia

Anya Taylor-Joy reprises her relation arsenic a now-adult Alia successful Dune: Part 3. In the books she serves arsenic regent and guardian to Paul’s heirs. Based connected this trailer and Taylor-Joy’s ain comments astatine the trailer event, Alia appears to play a cardinal relation successful the movie arsenic her brother’s astir aggravated ally.

Alia has been aged-up for this movie; the quality is conscionable an teen successful Dune Messiah. The Fremen of Arrakis worship her arsenic “St. Alia of the Knife.” In the story, she seeks not lone to thwart the conspiracy against Paul but to besides find a mate.

“Alia has a precise aggravated blessing/curse situation. She carries the value and the contented of generations and generations successful her head. She's ne'er successful a singular conversation. It's benignant of everything everyplace each astatine once,” Taylor-Joy explained.

“And the 1 happening that she truly feels astir powerfully astir is her emotion and devotion to her brother, due to the fact that that is the lone idiosyncratic who's ever made her consciousness similar she makes sense. He's understood her from earlier she was adjacent calved and she volition bash thing for him to assorted degrees of insanity.”

How Is Duncan Idaho Alive? Hayt the Ghola Explained

Jason Momoa arsenic Hayt.

In Dune Messiah, Alia becomes romantically progressive with Duncan Idaho, who is fundamentally resurrected by the Bene Tleilax, 1 of the factions scheming to overthrow Paul. They make a ghola of Duncan – a manufactured familial replicant of a dormant quality – and acquisition him to Paul.

Now called Hayt, Duncan – er, Hayt – is simply a mentat with nary memories of his past beingness arsenic Duncan Idaho. Although fixed to Paul arsenic a gift, Hayt is really a limb wielded by the Tleilax to messiness with Paul’s caput and, if request be, termination him.

Villeneuve acknowledged that Duncan Idaho is backmost for the 3rd film, but played coy astir the Hayt of it each erstwhile asked astir it astatine the trailer launch:

“He comes backmost conscionable astatine the close infinitesimal successful the story. And it's similar a very, precise important comeback. Paul is struggling with his individuality and I deliberation that benignant of beardown Atreides fig coming backmost from the past volition person a tremendous impact. That's what I volition say.”

Robert Pattinson’s Villain Scytale

Robert Pattinson arsenic Scytale.

The Tleilax are besides down Robert Pattinson’s Scytale, a Face Dancer who tin shapeshift into anyone. Scytale is simply a cardinal subordinate successful the conspiracy betwixt the Bene Gesserit, Spacing Guild and Irulan’s House Corrino to overthrow and yet destruct Paul.

Face Dancers are genetically programmed to stay loyal to the Tleilax, and are utilized to destruct oregon regenerate anyone astatine likelihood with the Tleilax’s agenda.

As Robert Pattinson said astatine the trailer launch: “He's an antithetic quality successful the book. I mean, you can't truly archer whose broadside he's connected [which is what] makes him rather interesting. ... I wouldn't accidental he's a benignant of accepted atrocious feline arsenic such. I don't deliberation helium is. He mightiness adjacent beryllium a bully guy. Who knows? I volition besides find retired erstwhile I spot the movie. But yeah, it's an highly amusive quality to play and the look for it is rather extraordinary.”

Stilgar

Helping to prosecute Paul’s jihad is his Fremen mentor Stilgar, erstwhile again played by Javier Bardem. We spot him astatine a fewer antithetic points successful the teaser trailer, but it’s what Bardem had to accidental astatine the trailer motorboat lawsuit that was peculiarly revealing astir however Stilgar, a longtime existent believer successful Paul arsenic the Lisan al-Gaib, feels astir it each present 17 years later:

“I deliberation it takes him to a spot wherever helium sees antithetic realities. So what being successful powerfulness means aft truthful long. And he's successful this contradiction betwixt the loyalty to the thought that helium powerfully fought [for] and believed backmost successful the day, and besides the effect of the thought becoming thing that helium thinks oregon feels that it whitethorn not beryllium a thought that 1 time helium dreamed about.

“It's a large analogy astir the thought of powerfulness and having the power. And past Stilgar is determination successful that contradiction.”

Gurney Halleck and Lady Jessica

Rebecca Ferguson arsenic Lady Jessica.

Rebecca Ferguson’s Lady Jessica Atreides spends overmuch of the publication connected the satellite Caladan with Gurney Halleck. While Josh Brolin reprises his relation arsenic Gurney, don’t expect to spot arsenic overmuch of him successful this movie if the character’s insignificant relation successful Dune Messiah is immoderate indication.

Likewise, Lady Jessica’s relation volition besides apt beryllium smaller successful Part 3 than it was successful the anterior films, but we bash spot her reminding Paul of the top quality betwixt him and his father, Duke Leto: “Your begetter ne'er started a war.”

Duke Leto does look to inactive measurement heavy connected Paul successful Part 3, arsenic we spot Paul cleaning his father’s ringing astatine 1 constituent successful the trailer. A ringing that we cognize volition 1 time walk to Paul’s lad Leto II, who becomes a cardinal protagonist successful Frank Herbert’s consequent books, Children of Dune and God Emperor of Dune.

Will There Be a Dune: Part 4?

While Paul Atreides’ travel from leader to despot concludes successful Dune Messiah, the communicative of House Atreides continues connected done his kids, Leto II and Ghanima, successful consequent Dune novels.

Denis Villeneuve has antecedently said his clip with the Dune franchise ends with Part 3, but it seems precise improbable that Warner Bros. and Legendary are conscionable going to fto specified invaluable IP prevarication dormant and not effort to accommodate Frank Herbert’s 3rd book, Children of Dune.

It’s astir similar we tin foresee it successful a vision.

Dune: Part 3 is presently scheduled to unfastened successful theaters connected December 18th, the aforesaid time arsenic Avengers: Doomsday. But that’s a full different story.