Being centre stage in a brand new Dune: Part Three trailer is a good way to recover from a fumbled Oscars campaign.
Marty didn’t reign supreme, but Timothée Chalamet is on the warpath in the newly launched trailer for ‘The Epic Conclusion’ to director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune trilogy.
Film News Blitz’s Dan Lawrence is ready to return to Arrakis.
He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy
When we left Chalamet’s Paul Atreides at the end of Dune: Part Two, he was gearing up to wage war on the universe, having thwarted Austin Butler’s Feyd-Rautha and been fully corrupted by the power of Fremen prophecy.
Loyalists had started to mass around him, and a spurned Chani (Zendaya) rode off into the desert of Arrakis.
In the newly released trailer, power has seeded deep within Atreides’ soul, as his bid for conquest looks set to spur Dune: Part Three on, a film based on author Frank Herbert’s novel, Dune Messiah.
We also catch glimpses of Zendaya’s Chani, Robert Pattinson’s face-changing Scytale, Anya Taylor-Joy’s expanding role as Alia Atreides and the returning Jason Momoa, in a story set 17 years after Dune: Part Two.
What can we expect from ‘Dune: Part Three’?
The trailer for Dune: Part Three was screened in front of a lucky audience, plus the cast and crew of the film, in Los Angeles ahead of its public rollout.
Villeneuve, at the event, described how this film will differ from its predecessors.
“It’s a very different movie from the first ones,” he began.
“It’s a good idea to come back to those worlds, not by nostalgia, but by urgency.
“If the first movie was contemplation, a boy exploring a new world, and the second one is a war movie, this one is a thriller. It is action-packed and tense. More muscular.”
“We see Paul dealing with the consequences of having too much power,” although “the heartbeat of the film is still the relationship between Paul and Chani.”
Dune: Part Three lands in cinemas, and of course, IMAX screens, on 18 December.
After critical acclaim, awards and box office success, this could be a seismic conclusion to an exemplary cinematic trilogy.
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