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Sandworms, Florence Pugh, and much more Zendaya are on the way
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Sandworms, Florence Pugh, and much more Zendaya are on the way
Strap into your stillsuits and conserve your water, because we’re going back to Arrakis!
The trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two teases our return to the beautiful — yet dangerous — desert planet. We pick up right where the first Dune left off, with Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and his mother Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) assimilating into the Fremen tribe led by Stilgar (Javier Bardem). There, Paul falls in love with Chani (Zendaya), and vows to help free Arrakis from its oppressors and transform it into a watery paradise.
It won’t be easy: Paul will face much opposition, especially from new characters introduced in the trailer. Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård) and his nephew Rabban (Dave Bautista) have already established themselves as brutal enemies. However, a new threat arises: the Baron’s younger nephew Feyd-Rautha (Austin Butler). He’s a deadly swordsman hell-bent on taking out Paul. Also, he’s bald.
Elsewhere in the trailer, we get our first glimpse of Princess Irulan (Florence Pugh), the daughter of the all-powerful Padishah Emperor (Christopher Walken) who suspects that Paul may still be alive. In Frank Herbert’s Dune, many chapters open with excerpts from Irulan’s writings, so expect her to be an authority on all things Paul Atreides.
But the coolest part of the trailer, hands down, comes when Paul takes on a Fremen rite of passage: his first ride on a sandworm. Do I wish Dune: Part Two had kept this sequence more of a surprise? Most definitely. Am I still excited to see Paul latching onto the sandworm? You betcha. The thumper! The maker hooks! The sand flying everywhere! All hail the majesty of Shai-Hulud.
In the second half of Frank Herbert’s Dune, there’s a moment that changes everything: when Paul Atreides, the left-for-dead son of a Duke, finally proves himself to the Fremen, the native people of the planet Arrakis who have been protecting him and his mother.
Timothee Chalamet has assumed his rightful place as Muad’Dib, the prophet of the Fremen in the first trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two. 2021’s Dune was another adaption of Frank Hubert’s Dune book series, one that proved to be extremely successful. It was one of the year’s top 10 films and nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning six.
“We really see Paul Atreides become a leader here,” Chalamet said during Warner Bros. presentation during CinemaCon. He was joined by Villeneuve and co-star, Zendaya.
“She’s not just in dreams this time,” Zendaya said of her character, Chani. “I only got such a small time to get to know who she was and now I really feel like she’s a part of myself. These are still just two young people trying to grow up and fall in love and live.”
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