“But at the center, there’s this relationship where Chani sort of becomes a moral compass … Even to say that out loud feels kind of huge, and she’s really the humanizing, grounding force to that.” The official poster sees the couple armed with jagged swords and framed by an Olafur Eliasson–looking orange sky. “The universe of Dune is a complex world of geopolitics and with tons of ecological and technological metaphors that hold up today,” Chalamet told Vanity Fair. In another, his azure contacts, framed by a brown hooded cape and taupe headscarf, are deeper than the ocean. We see Zendaya tenderly caressing Chalamet’s cheek in the middle of the Arrakis desert in one image.

It’s a veritable who’s who of talent across generational divides.ĭo you hear that? It’s the sound of Dune fans losing their shit over a smorgasbord of stunning Vanity Fair exclusive first-look photos released on April 27. Finally, Tim Blake Nelson will play an as-yet-unnamed character. Walken will be playing Shaddam IV, the emperor of House Corrino Pugh will be playing his daughter, Princess Irulan Seydoux will be Lady Margot, who is one of the emperor’s friends and a member of iconic queens the Bene Gesserit and Butler will be Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, the nephew of Stellan Skarsgård’s Baron Harkonnen. But they’ve added Pugh, Butler, Léa Seydoux, and Christopher Walken to their band of science-fiction sisters. Chalamet, Bardem, Zendaya, and Rebecca Ferguson will all be returning, of course. So Villeneuve has padded Dune: Part Two with some pretty well known names. Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, and Sharon Duncan-Brewster are all dead by gas, combat, and sandworm (respectively). If you watched Dune: Part One, you may remember that the majority of the characters are, in fact, dead.

By the end of the trailer, Paul Atreides masters “sandback” riding and gets to kiss Chani. “But the darkest of all will remain the end of House Atreides.” It’s not so dark, though. “In the shadows of Arrakis lie many secrets,” Princess Irulan says. Elsewhere, Florence Pugh’s Princess Irulan plots, and Austin Butler’s Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen fights in an arena - bald from the eyebrows up. The rightful heir to House Atreides is stuck on the planet of Arrakis while the rest of the universe thinks he’s dead, so Javier Bardem’s character gives him some tips on how to ride the sandworm. Timothée Chalamet goes sandworm riding in the first trailer.Ĭhalamet rides a big worm to impress Zendaya’s Chani in the first trailer for Dune 2.

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