Warner Brothers have unveiled the first trailer for Dune: Part Three.
Directed and co-written by Denis Villeneuve, the film adapts the second novel in Frank Herbert's Dune series, Dune Messiah (1969). The story takes place some years after the events of the first two movies, with Paul Atreides ruling the galaxy as the Emperor. To solidify his power, he has unleashed the Fremen of Arrakis in a vast holy war, but in the process he has caused arguably far more harm than the old Emperor and the Harkonnens ever could, leading to many to conspire against him. Caught in the crossfire are his estranged wife, Chani, his mother Jessica and his old comrade-in-arms Duncan Idaho, killed during the original conflict on Arrakis but now resurrected as a ghola, a flesh-clone created by the redoubtable Tleilaxu.
Curiously, Villeneuve has been strident in bailing from the franchise at this point, although the narrative arc begun in Dune only concludes properly in the third book in the series, Children of Dune, following which there is a 3,500-year time jump to the events of the fourth novel, the almost impossibly weird God Emperor of Dune. Warner Brothers may choose to continue adapting the remaining four books in the series, but will do so without Villeneuve, who is moving on to a relaunch of the James Bond franchise. He also has an adaptation of the Arthur C. Clarke novel Rendezvous with Rama (1973) lined up.
Dune: Part Three stars Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Florence Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson, Isaach de Bankolé, Charlotte Rampling, Anya Taylor-Joy, Robert Pattinson, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin. It will be released on 18 December this year.
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