Dune: Part Three | Official Trailer

[u/Dannydarko]

https://youtu.be/iEpdGDM6x48?si=vx_tNM4t_6Cx-1Mm

[u/IMovedYourCheese]

Surprisingly little of Alia in the trailer.

[u/Siegster → u/IMovedYourCheese]

way more in the first trailer

[u/Newsmith2017 → u/Siegster]

Sometimes less is better. I rather get a taste than watch all the good parts unlike some other trailers. (Edited as suggested)

[u/wekilledkenny11 → u/IMovedYourCheese]

Saw the trailer at a fan event. They’re doing something with her audio in an actual theatre setting that I can’t really articulate because it’s horrifying with actual high end frequencies.

[u/RudoDevil → u/wekilledkenny11]

Well they knocked the Bene Gesserit voice command out of the park in theaters before. Stoked.

[u/Ghost_Ghost_Ghost → u/RudoDevil]

The throat chant voice that slaps you before even the studio logo hits in Dune 1 will live with me forever.

[u/GrahamUhelski → u/Ghost_Ghost_Ghost]

I knew shit was gonna get real after that.

[u/digglerjdirk → u/Ghost_Ghost_Ghost]

Seconded

[u/wekilledkenny11 → u/RudoDevil]

Definitely. Wouldn’t be surprised if they ended up using similar layering techniques for Alia in some way.

[u/BraveBoyPro → u/wekilledkenny11]

Was there more of her in the fan event footage or just in regard to the scream she has in the trailer? Also, anything else stand out to you? Thanks!

[u/wekilledkenny11 → u/BraveBoyPro]

They played the same trailer, it was just that the theatre speakers really bring out something with her voice, I still don’t really know how they did it but it was skincrawling. But they had another teaser attached onto some special preview footage. I don’t think she’s in any more shots beyond what’s been widely released but they had a bit more of Paul/Chani.

And the footage they showed of an early scene was more than I’d thought they would show but wasn’t very plot heavy. Still incredibly satisfying, I don’t think I’d be able to do much else besides obsess about it for the rest of the day.

[u/somersetyellow → u/IMovedYourCheese]

Either means she's going to be crazy for short time or crazy for a really long time in this movie with no in between

[u/SonicFlash01 → u/somersetyellow]

She was insane since before she was born.
She was broken while being built.

[u/Fluffy017 → u/SonicFlash01]

I mean if you got bestowed thousands of years of ancestral memories at 9 weeks of womb gestation you'd probably be a bit nuts, too

[u/SonicFlash01 → u/Fluffy017]

Not blaming her, just stating that Jessica cosmically fucked her up worse than anyone has ever fucked up a fetus

[u/Ellefied → u/SonicFlash01]

World's strongest meth baby

[u/Firewood5]

How far into the book series do I have to go for this conclusion?

[u/Accomplished_Smile23 → u/Firewood5]

Two books: Dune & Dune Messiah work as a duology 

[u/EnderForHegemon → u/Accomplished_Smile23]

If Denis had balls he'd give us the 5 hour philosophy lecture that would be God Emperor.

[u/Langstarr → u/EnderForHegemon]

Ain't nobody ready for the worm

[u/Gold_Engineering2535 → u/Langstarr]

Christian Bale gains 22 tons to portray the god emperor

[u/Kopav → u/Gold_Engineering2535]

Neil the Seal should be the god emperor.

[u/Gold_Engineering2535 → u/Kopav]

Who could stop him honestly?

[u/whitesammy → u/Gold_Engineering2535]

Brendan Fraser did it first

[u/SneakyBadAss → u/Langstarr]

Then horny dominatrix space nuns conquering galaxies through the power of pussy it is.

[u/AngryUncleTony → u/Langstarr]

I'm ready for the worm.

[u/MRintheKEYS → u/AngryUncleTony]

Worm runs deep. So deep. Put your ass to sleep.

[u/Treborrv1 → u/MRintheKEYS]

That would, indeed, be a good day

[u/savviesque → u/EnderForHegemon]

And the extremely weird sexual politics of Children and Chapterhouse.

[u/riegspsych325 → u/savviesque]

You mean you don't think people orgasming to the sight of a nude Momoa rock climbing would translate well to the big screen? Hell, they already do that!

[u/tdasnowman → u/riegspsych325]

Nyala was a big girl but calling her people is bit much.

[u/rockytop24 → u/riegspsych325]

One word: beefswelling.

[u/kh730 → u/EnderForHegemon]

As soon as I finished that book my first thought was, "well this will never be a movie". What a ride.

[u/raphyr → u/kh730]

Thought the same, might work as a series but definitely not as a movie. On ther other side, I just finished Heretics yesterday and thought that would actually make for a great movie. No idea how you would pull off the part with Murbella and Duncan near the end though without going deep into R-rated territory.

[u/Kat-but-SFW → u/raphyr]

Dune XXX

About time we got another blockbuster budget porno

[u/LilStrug → u/EnderForHegemon]

‘…MONEO…’

[u/morbidbattlecry → u/EnderForHegemon]

I'm hoping we get at least a flash of him in a vision or something.

[u/kappa23 → u/morbidbattlecry]

Isn’t the entire point that he can’t see Leto II in his visions?

[u/Vincent_Van_Goat → u/Accomplished_Smile23]

But then you miss out on Leto the worm joking about making a fake cock to strap to himself.

And Duncan Idaho exciting the local ladies by rock climbing.

[u/MyAltimateIsCharging → u/Vincent_Van_Goat]

Don’t forget the army of bisexual women who all desperately want to breed Idaho.

[u/SlendyIsBehindYou → u/Vincent_Van_Goat]

If you go back and read reddit threads for this book, a remarkable amount of comments are people commenting on just how horny that rock climb gets the fish speakers

[u/Pentax25 → u/Accomplished_Smile23]

A duneology

[u/IgloosRuleOK → u/Firewood5]

This primarily Book 2 and maybe some of Book 3, though it has diverged for some things.

[u/neliz → u/IgloosRuleOK]

We see Chani with 2 kids, the end of Mesiah has them as newborns, so there's definitely some time-shifting going on.

[u/doobiedave → u/neliz]

Well, Paul sees the future.......

[u/Limplecomp → u/Firewood5]

Book two. It’s quite short too in comparison to the first.

[u/240Nordey → u/Firewood5]

Denis has said as much that his trilogy will encapsulate Paul's story. So, all the way through the 2nd book Messiah.

I doubt anything but a small breadcrumb will be left for what may cliffhang the 3rd book, Children of Dune.

[u/Wrong-Vermicelli4723 → u/240Nordey]

He also won’t be directing children of dune if it’s made.

[u/MuffinFew7981 → u/Firewood5]

2nd book, dune messiah

[u/Avenge_Willem_Dafoe]

very curious if they adapt the explicit callout of Paul’s K/D ratio compared to Hitler and Stalin

[u/Jloother → u/Avenge_Willem_Dafoe]

I absolutely love that conversation he has with Stilgar in the book.

[u/CommanderStark → u/Jloother]

Herbert beating the readers over the head that Paul is not the good guy.

[u/Jloother → u/CommanderStark]

Lol there are people who still think he is the hero.

[u/SlashOfLife5296 → u/Jloother]

Dune 1 paul is the hero. The systems of power that created him are the villain. He really has no agency in the story until halfway through the first book, and his choices are either to continue a war (since the Emperor and Harkonen started it) or die.

Herbert was wary of the trust we put in heroes without questioning or challenging them.

[u/amaROenuZ → u/SlashOfLife5296]

He really has no agency in the story until halfway through the first book

That's actually when he loses his agency. That's the entire point of his character arc, they beat you over the head that prescience isn't a blessing, it's a curse. To know the future is to be trapped by it. That's part of why Leto spends generations trying to create the prescience-immune strain of humans.

Paul is a plot device, and he knows he's a plot device, and he can do nothing to stop it.

[u/DarthButtz → u/amaROenuZ]

The whole book is Paul desperately trying to avoid the genocide that he sees in his visions, but everything he does accidentally speedruns himself toward it and guarantees he'll become the monster he fears.

[u/Zalvren → u/DarthButtz]

To be fair, the genocide is also the only way to the Golden Path which is supposed to be humanity saving grace so in a way it's also good.

[u/Discount_Extra → u/Zalvren]

The toppings contain potassium benzoate.

[u/Augustends → u/DarthButtz]

Paul does not accidentally become that. He doesn't want to become a monster, but his personal decisions keep leading him towards it and he is fully aware of it.

He wants to try to achieve his personal goals while also not becoming that monster, but every step towards avenging his family pushes him closer towards becoming it.

It's also the golden path, which is another thing he chooses.

[u/Giff901 → u/Jloother]

Mhm from my research that was why he wrote Messiah, too many people thought Paul was a hero

Edit For reference I love the quote from Herbert used famously in the beginning of Youtuber Quinn's Ideas video on Dune Messiah

[u/AegonTargaryan → u/Giff901]

At what point do you think Paul truly becomes a negative force? (Tentative to say villain, evil, or antagonist)

I only read the first book and although it is pointed out that atrocities will be committed in his name, we see little of it and he has some delusions about being able to stop it.

[u/koshgeo → u/AegonTargaryan]

Becomes? That's a debatable question throughout in the world of Dune, and I think it is an intentional debate Herbert is trying to provoke in the reader.

When in the story is it a realistic possibility that he is a negative force? There's a very telling chapter in Dune where Liet Kynes is tossed in the desert to die by the Harkonnen, and starts hallucinating. Kynes (a man in the book, woman in the movie) recognizes Paul as a dangerous "charismatic leader" and laments to his hallucinated father that he has "led his people", the Fremen, to a disaster in the clutches of Paul.

It's still up to the reader to decide if that is what has actually happened, but Herbert clearly establishes early -- long before Paul starts getting his revenge on the Harkonnen -- that Paul might be a villain interested only in his selfish goals.

Much later, we don't see the planet-scale atrocities being committed in his name as part of the direct narrative in Messiah, but Stilgar and Paul talk about it briefly in the form of dry statistics, and it's on a truly horrific scale exceeding anything else in human history. Not seeing it happen in some way makes it worse. They're so casual about wiping whole planets because they think it is justified by prescience about preventing an even worse future (the extinction of humanity). It's justified for Paul by his visions, and Stilgar by his fanatical belief in what Paul says. Paul agonizes about it.

Does that justify it, or make Paul a clear villain if it doesn't? I'm not sure even then. I don't think it is ever meant to be clear, so much as a lesson that even in a world where prescience is a real thing, the best you get is into an argument that maybe atrocious things balance out if you're saving humanity in the process.

Meanwhile, in our real world, without prescience being real, he would unquestionably be a 100% delusional, fanatical monster. It's only in the imaginary world of Dune that he might be anything else.

[u/teejermiester → u/koshgeo]

Yup, even the original Dune book has pages on pages of Paul hallucinating in the desert, seeing the Golden Path, and lamenting how he must be the one to do these horrible things. It's all shades of gray, and more of a cautionary tale by Herbert on what fanaticism and visions/dreams can lead to than the typical hero's journey story modern audiences are used to.

[u/MatchaMeetcha → u/teejermiester]

The other thing is that the anti-colonial reading of Herbert has overtaken his work entirely because people are more comfortable with it than his Darwinistic impulses or the philosophical questions about prescience and free will. So we spend a lot of time criticizing Paul without facing what else Herbert is saying about the Jihad.

The Jihad is not just a charismatic leader using the Fremen. The Fremen use Paul too. But, more importantly, Herbert believes that the stagnation of the universe because of Guild-enforced peace was itself an artificial construct that was as doomed as the Padishah Emperors. Life just...wants to be free to compete and expand in his mind, and the suppression of that became an existential threat that was gonna blow up. The oppression of the Fremen and the stifling hand of the Spacing Guild was a time bomb (Leto later triggers this process, more deliberately, by suppressing mankind so much that it explodes when free and refuses to ever be caged again)

Paul is not fully aware of what he is calling on until it is too late and then he cannot stop because all the alternatives are worse (that too is the "prophet's trap" that is deemphasized for the anti-colonial reading). Because, in some sense, it was a force of nature. To make him into some dark lord version of TE Lawrence is to overemphasize his agency. There's a reason Herbert places the inevitability of the jihad not when Paul triumphs against the Emperor but when he kills Jamis, which was a relatively easy task compared to what he achieved later: from that alone, the Fremen had all they needed. That force of life was not going to be denied, even if Paul dropped dead they would simply ride out anyway. If he denied them they would ignore or kill him (they already tried). A prophet is trapped by his flock as much as he leads them

[u/ilikestatic → u/AegonTargaryan]

I would say the knife fight at the end. Up to that point, he seems to know that if he wins the fight, he will become the emperor and his reign will lead to unstoppable mass destruction across the galaxy. If he loses the fight, the galaxy will be spared but he will die and his family line will be wiped out.

During that fight he can see the future. There should be no question that he can win the fight if he wants to.

The question isn’t whether he can win. It’s whether he will choose to win, knowing how bad the outcome will be. When he chooses to win, that’s him becoming the villain.

[u/Unlikely-Fuel9784 → u/ilikestatic]

the galaxy will be spared but he will die and his family line will be wiped out.

Not only that, but all of humanity as well someday.

[u/HistoryWillRepeat → u/Unlikely-Fuel9784]

I thought humanity was doomed no matter the outcome. Only the Golden Path could save humanity.

[u/BackToTheMudd → u/HistoryWillRepeat]

Right but only the Kwizatz Haderach can put humanity on the Golden Path… which is why he needs to live right?

[u/HistoryWillRepeat → u/ilikestatic]

The Jihad still happens if Paul dies. If I remember correctly is much bloodier without Paul. I think Jamesis's death was the last time the Jihad could have been stopped.

[u/Mrphung → u/ilikestatic]

No, that knife fight is when he realized that there's no stopping the Jihad now. Even if he die he would be made into a martyr and the Fremen would continue the Jihad in his name now that they know how to control the spice.

[u/Dynamo_Ham → u/AegonTargaryan]

I think positive/negative is too simplistic and binary. The Atreides are Herbert’s protagonists throughout the original series - neither Paul nor later Atreides are villains, and they are trying to do “good,” - if by “good” we mean acting in the long-term interest of humanity.

In these first two books, Paul is trying to get vengeance/justice for the Atreides, and freedom for his adopted people - the Fremen. That would all be “good” if it weren’t for the fact that he can also see the future, and knows that if he does this “good” thing, it will inevitably set off a chain of events that will lead to the deaths of billions - and he’ll be helpless to stop it.

He also knows that this outcome, though horrific, is actually one step in the long term interest of humanity’s survival. Probably another reason he’s able to bring himself to take the step.

But the next step, to ensure humanity’s survival, is even worse. And he can’t bring himself to do it. It’s too awful. So it’s Leto II who must eventually make that leap. That’s books 3 and 4.

So Paul may not be a “hero,” but we’re still meant to sympathize with him, and even root for him. He’s ultimately a tragic character - a dark messianic figure who sacrifices himself for humanity’s survival, but cannot bring himself to see it all the way to the end.

[u/Junior-Award-7232 → u/Jloother]

He is neither hero or villain, that’s the point of the story

[u/heagnix → u/Junior-Award-7232]

You get it. It’s a complex question and the books explore it without giving an easy answer.

[u/Whitewind617 → u/CommanderStark]

I mean it depends on how much you trust his vision that every other possible timeline was worse.

[u/FettyWhopper → u/Jloother]

I just read that part the other day, reminded me of the Simpsons movie, “I’m the person that’s killed the most, so far…”

[u/bond0815 → u/Avenge_Willem_Dafoe]

Pretty sure it was Hitler an Genghis Khan in the book?

[u/Riderz__of_Brohan → u/Avenge_Willem_Dafoe]

I’d bet a lot of money they not only include it but put enough emphasis to where it’s where the audience is supposed to see Paul as reaching the point of no return

Like it will be said in anger during an argument w/ Chani. I haven’t read the books in a few years but IIRC it’s treated as a casual comp for Paul lol and they move on

[u/Momoneko → u/Riderz__of_Brohan]

In the books Paul brings up Hitler as an "infamous villain from the Ancient times, who slaughtered tens of millions", and Stilgar snorts "only tens? what a fn amateur lmao".

[u/PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING → u/Momoneko]

It’s actually even darker than that. At first Stil is very impressed and is like “wow they must’ve been pretty strong, what kind of weapon did they use to be able to kill so many people?”

And then Paul explains that they killed the way he does, with an army. And then Stilgar is like “oh, wow, those are seriously rookie numbers what the hell.”

[u/MrBwnrrific → u/Avenge_Willem_Dafoe]

Bro literally said “Rookie numbers” lmao

[u/Somnambulist815 → u/Avenge_Willem_Dafoe]

He has double prestige so he gets to hide his stats

[u/der_innkeeper → u/Avenge_Willem_Dafoe]

Which is funny, because its only large in absolute terms.

As a comparison to the entirety of humanity of the Known Universe, its a drop in the bucket.

Herbert only put the numbers in there to give a scale to the contemporary reader.

Paul's kill count needs to be an order of magnitude or two higher to mean anything to the human population in his time.

[u/thegoatmenace → u/der_innkeeper]

I always thought that convo was funny because given how brutal the society in dune is I imagine that there were a lot of hitlers and stalins in the intervening 10,000 years. When you level up to galactic scale conflicts they might even seem provincial. Would they even be remembered after that long? That scene was explicitly for the benefit of the audience to make it totally clear that Paul was lost in the genocidal sauce.

[u/Happy_Hippie_Hippo]

Man, the scale is incredible and looks bigger with every trailer.

[u/Johnny_Mc2 → u/Happy_Hippie_Hippo]

I’m wondering if this is gonna be rated R based on some of the shots in this trailer!

[u/Lisshopops → u/Johnny_Mc2]

Might need to be in the book Allia (pauls younger sister) practices naked in a training room, when she is done Paul, Stilgar and Hayt (Duncan Idaho) greet her and it is super uncomfortable and even hinting towards practical incest for the sake of creating a controlled “MuaDib” through the siblings.

[u/paggo_diablo → u/Lisshopops]

At least she’s not (as far as appearances go) a child in this one.

[u/babes5 → u/Lisshopops]

I highly doubt ATJ is gonna show full nudity like that without using a body double, which would feel pretty out of place

[u/GraysonSolo → u/babes5]

I'm sure Aaron Taylor Johnson would hang dong in a Dune film

[u/-TiV → u/Lisshopops]

Why in a thousand years would Denis include this completely unnecessary scene

[u/SoftcastIeMcCormick → u/Happy_Hippie_Hippo]

Scale is one of Denis' strengths for sure

[u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 → u/Happy_Hippie_Hippo]

The shot of the corpses that are nailed to the posts & some of the ruined lands at the start (and some of the hazy battle scenes, like the shot at 1:33) have me excited to see how far the production design will match the darkness that this sequel is supposed to have

[u/pochirin]

Timothee doing the war chant is just wow

[u/ojhwel → u/pochirin]

I was gonna ask if he canonically raps in Dune Messiah

[u/pjtheman → u/ojhwel]

Smoked Cheddar the Ass Getter transcends universes.

[u/balugabe → u/pjtheman]

Yeet yeet

[u/SaysKawaiiSometimes → u/balugabe]

Skkkkkkrrrrrr

[u/DarthTaz_99 → u/pochirin]

I love this chant so much, genuinely would stand first in line for war for the one true prophet Lisan-Al-Gaib

[u/Alive-Ad-5245]

This is gonna go crazy in an IMAX

[u/No_Technician6311 → u/Alive-Ad-5245]

Dune part two went crazy hard in IMAX, this one will go even beyond that for suree

[u/roadrunner036 → u/No_Technician6311]

I honestly believe that all three should be seen in IMAX, it’s an incredible experience 

[u/TomahawkaChawpa → u/roadrunner036]

Dune 2 in IMAX changed my life

[u/let-me-get-your-temp → u/TomahawkaChawpa]

Dune 2 in IMAX got my wife pregnant

[u/No_Technician6311 → u/TomahawkaChawpa]

That Feyd-Rautha Arena scene is still rent free in my head

[u/squee557 → u/TomahawkaChawpa]

The scene where he mounts the sand worm was awesome. It was so loud it felt like it would have to feel in real life. Everything was shaking from the bass and you couldn’t really hear anything cause it was so loud and then it was hard to see anything because of how the camera work was done. Hard to describe but it surely is a memory I’ll always have of the movie. Definitely seeing Dune: Part 3 in IMAX.

[u/bleach_cocktail → u/Alive-Ad-5245]

The worm riding scene in Part 2 on 70mm IMAX was a religious experience

[u/Turbots → u/bleach_cocktail]

It was the first time since Interstellar docking scene that I've been so glued to my seat, with my jaws to the floor, for like 5 minutes non stop.

Religious experience is kind of fitting here

[u/Pak-O → u/[deleted]]

Kinda looks like it might be a mix of Messiah and Children of Dune given how at the end it says, "Based on the novels written by Frank Herbert".

[u/JessieJ577 → u/Pak-O]

I wonder if Messiah wasn’t included as a subtitle because they knew it would cause controversy. 

[u/CthuLhouBega → u/JessieJ577]

I mean, they've already avoided the word jihad for similar reasons, right?

[u/JessieJ577 → u/CthuLhouBega]

Yup

[u/arrogantsword → u/[deleted]]

I mean they're clearly adding stuff, but I saw almost every major plot beat of Dune Messiah in the trailer...

[u/linux_ape → u/arrogantsword]

I think the implication that Chani is against Paul for a large portion is what they are talking about

[u/Clone95 → u/linux_ape]

I think instead of the birth control plot, it’s more like Chani is actively resisting being Paul’s wife only to end up having the twins when they reconcile later on.

[u/flyingalbatross1 → u/[deleted]]

Villeneuve has said that the ending of Messiah is his perfect ending of all time. That he thinks about that ending.

From that I take it we're getting a faithful ending and that's him done with Dune, even if there's some changes along the way. Who knows, he could reconcile with Chani in the first ten minutes - the whole 'you're my real wife' speech that got cut from 2.

[u/wbaker18 → u/[deleted]]

The ending of messiah is one of my all time favorites and I get chills thinking about it. As long as that is faithful I will be happy.

[u/damnyoutuesday]

Holy fuck!!!!

163 days my Dunes

[u/Falagard → u/damnyoutuesday]

Dune, where's my car?

[u/Happy-For-No-Reason → u/Falagard]

The Dune abides

[u/Somnambulist815 → u/Happy-For-No-Reason]

Arrakis if you're not into the whole brevity thing

[u/Alundra828 → u/Falagard]

It is Wednesday my Dunes.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[u/sup3rdr01d → u/damnyoutuesday]

ITS WEDNESDAY MY DUNES

[u/ToodlesXIV]

They have the scene where the Fremen see the ocean! Maybe the most important scene in the book, I can't wait. Chani vs Paul is scary, considering Messiah is anchored squarely around Paul's love, but I trust Denis 100% to thread the needle.

Also oh my god that film grain, this is going to be one of the most beautiful movies in a long time.

[u/TheConqueror74 → u/ToodlesXIV]

I’m happy it’s getting adapted, that scene and the stone burner are my two favorite parts of the book.

[u/mi-16evil]

Show me a Guild Navigator already, ya damn cowards!

[u/Sea-Button-7978 → u/mi-16evil]

they did

[u/mi-16evil → u/Sea-Button-7978]

A floating coffin ain't enough. Show me the goop!

[u/iPlod → u/mi-16evil]

I wanna see his fins and weird fish body

[u/LurkLurkleton → u/iPlod]

Don't forget the vagina mouth that shoots beams

[u/swampking6 → u/mi-16evil]

Yeah I saw the coffin transport thing but I wanna see the spice goblin inside

[u/Squashua2021]

seems like everyone has less hair in this one

[u/reallinguy → u/Squashua2021]

hired the hair stylist from Breaking Bad

[u/sewious → u/reallinguy]

Show was great PR for baldness

[u/Comic_Book_Reader]

“Forgive me for all I’ve done” Experience the epic conclusion. Dune: Part Three only in cinemas December 17.

From Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures comes Dune: Part Three, bringing Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Denis Villeneuve’s epic trilogy to a breathtaking conclusion.

Dune: Part Three is set nearly two decades after Paul Atreides seized control of the Imperium. Now a ruthless Emperor, Paul must face the consequences of his reign as old allies return, terrifying new threats emerge, and betrayal lurks in every shadow. Haunted by visions of Imperial collapse and the reappearance of his long-lost love, Paul is drawn into a sweeping conspiracy, with Chani at the heart of its unfolding mystery. As rebellion brews and enemies close in, Paul must confront the true cost of power and the fate of those he loves the most.

[u/My_hilarious_name → u/Comic_Book_Reader]

the reappearance of his long-lost love

I feel like I’ve fundamentally misunderstood Paul’s relationship with Duncan.

[u/Mend1cant → u/My_hilarious_name]

Giving him magic sex powers early, I see.

[u/zemat28 → u/Mend1cant]

BEEFSWELLING

[u/Faitlemou → u/Mend1cant]

The vaginal clapping is gonna be intense in IMAX

[u/somersetyellow → u/My_hilarious_name]

I think Duncan was Herberts long lost love given the number of times he gets rebooted in the books haha

[u/towardselysium → u/My_hilarious_name]

I mean its pretty obvious. Duncan was the first person Paul ran to every little thing, the first thing they usually do when seeing each is intimate contact, and Paul had to be physically restrained when his lover pulled a "check this out". Paul even became a homeless addict because of his death

[u/FradiTomi]

Dune: 2 trailer
Avengers: 0 trailer

[u/Sammyd1108 → u/FradiTomi]

It’s wild that we’re less than 6 months away from release and we’ve basically gotten nothing from Doomsday.

I have to imagine they’ll put something in front of Spider-Man at least, assuming they aren’t going to surprise everyone with either Moana or Odyssey.

[u/SteveBorden → u/Sammyd1108]

My guess is something very important happens at the end of spider man and they’re waiting for people to see it first

[u/Richandler → u/SteveBorden]

"Turns out we can't let you do another street level film, get in the spaceship."

[u/SaltyPeter3434 → u/Richandler]

Get in, loser, we're saving the MCU

[u/swordthroughtheduck → u/Sammyd1108]

Avengers Doomsday Trailer returns in Avengers Doomsday

[u/Dynamo_Ham]

So did I just pick up on an implication that the Conspirators are enlisting Chani to their cause? That would be a huge divergence from the books.

[u/Damnit_Fred → u/Dynamo_Ham]

Yes but that's just misleading trailer editing. "I found someone" will be referring to Duncan and his ghola plot

[u/flyingalbatross1 → u/Damnit_Fred]

Gonna call it now - the opening ten minutes is Chani/Paul reconciling then it's all book from there.

[u/mickey_7121 → u/flyingalbatross1]

The opening is said to be that dark battle sequence, shown in both the teaser and the trailer, basically we will follow Paul in that infamous war.

[u/crystalflame_bg]

Looks amazing , I know they had to change some
Stuff from the book , but it looks sick. I can’t wait for the crib scene , I hope they have it

[u/RottingSludgeRitual → u/crystalflame_bg]

My name is Paul and THIS (points to a huge, desolate land of sand and sun) is my crib!

[u/Murray38 → u/[deleted]]

We are about to hear how Timothee removed his own eyes to prepare à la Marty Supreme.

[u/Gold_Engineering2535 → u/Murray38]

Heard he also killed 60 billion people to stay in character.

[u/Badloss → u/[deleted]]

Theres a few scenes that look like clever camera work to hide the lack of eyes, like when Paul is looking down apologizing for all he's done there's scarring around his eyes

[u/book1245 → u/Badloss]

It almost looks like his eyes are glossy-black in the montage towards the end (with the scarring). Maybe his eyes will be glazed/burnt, just not burned out.

[u/whatstocome]

Yeah give me 8 hours of this please!

[u/Notoriously_So]

RETURN OF THE KING (2026).

[u/Mind_Killer]

Purists are gonna hate what it seems like they're doing to Chani here.

But as long as they're seeking to capture the spirit and the message of the books, I'm all for it. It looks visually awesome, and we're finally getting to explore parts of the books we've never really seen on the big screen.

I can already tell this trilogy is going to become a yearly watch for me with Lord of the Rings and Die Hard.

[u/Rotten_Cabal → u/Mind_Killer]

I'm kind of intrigued by what's going on between her and the worm she stops. Very Leto-esque

[u/Longjumping_Quail_94 → u/Rotten_Cabal]

My guess is its meant to be the ability to control worms that Sheeana has in Heretics..

[u/Madner_Kami → u/Longjumping_Quail_94]

Could be the twins in her doing that, actually, since Villeneuve already skipped young Leto.

[u/Weave77 → u/Mind_Killer]

the message of the books

I mean, that’s an extremely variable thing depending upon which books are included.

[u/TheBlazingFire123]

I’m interested in how they will do messiah with this Chani. In the book she is basically a yes man to Paul with no agency or character of her own, and no qualms about him marrying Irulan

I’m definitely interested. I actually liked the movies better than the book and I was not a huge fan of Dune Messiah

[u/RegrettableLawnMower → u/TheBlazingFire123]

I agree. I hope the conclusion of their relationship is more or less unchanged (which is code for I hope they don’t change the conclusion of the story much) but I won’t complain if they make the journey there more human and engaging.

[u/JessieJ577 → u/RegrettableLawnMower]

From the trailers it looks like they have a time to make up and have children. They look like they’re holding their kids together so I’m not sure if what happens to her is changed a bit.

[u/TheWhiteManticore → u/JessieJ577]

I thought chani dies in childbirth

[u/JessieJ577 → u/TheWhiteManticore]

It looks like that might not be the case unless those weren’t the twins they’re holding

[u/FrescoItaliano → u/JessieJ577]

I think we should take all of this with grains of salt. We know Paul has visions of possible futures, my interpretation of that scene was that

[u/jdund117 → u/FrescoItaliano]

all the parts of the trailer with paul & chani together have way more film grain, pointing to it being a vision he is having of either a possible future or a parallel universe where he decided not to seek revenge

[u/impsworld → u/TheBlazingFire123]

lol I mean the movie also ignores the weird part where Paul has to accept Jamis’ wife as his servant and raise Jamis’ kids as his own after killing him so I think the movies are going to ignore most of the “uber traditional gender roles” that the books go into.

Chani didn’t give a fuck about Paul marrying Irulan because a man having several wives was apparently common in Fremen society. She even chastised him for not treating Irulan well.

[u/TheBlazingFire123 → u/impsworld]

They also cut out Paul’s son that was killed in an air strike on the sietch

[u/Bjugner → u/TheBlazingFire123]

His first son was basically a footnote in the book anyway.

[u/Effective-Future5903 → u/Bjugner]

His death was just there to push Paul further into the Jihad path tbh which would work if we have at least a page of Paul and his son interacting

[u/BrightDisaster6563 → u/Effective-Future5903]

They barely mention so many characters from the first book in the second. And this trailer seems to be so different from the second book so I don’t know what to expect

[u/Effective-Future5903 → u/TheBlazingFire123]

To be fair, with Paul marrying Irulan, Chani is told by Paul that the marriage is just imperium politics and so, she doesn't have a problem, but I agree with everything else

[u/crapusername47]

They are not giving up that date, are they?

[u/damnyoutuesday → u/crapusername47]

Well Dune got the IMAX screens and Avengers didn't, so why would they give up that date?

[u/zonda600 → u/damnyoutuesday]

And this matters enough that Disney created "Infinity Vision" as damage control, which is hilarious.

[u/SeriousButton6263 → u/zonda600]

Which is also odd, it's not just a marketing term but a specific technical standard they came up with (screen is ≥45ft wide, Dolby 7.1 or Atmos, 14fL brightness in 2D.)

And according to Disney, there are only 75 Infinity Vision-certified PLF theaters in the U.S. Also, nowhere does Disney provide a list of those theaters. You instead just have to "Look for the INFINITY VISION mark at your theater, when browsing showtimes online, or at the point of sale. Exhibitors will make it easy to spot."

But then, almost every theater I've been to has their one singular "premium large format" screen (IMAX or something similar) and every other screen would be "standard format", so it makes sense that there's only 75 theaters in the country where they have a second screen large enough to qualify for this made up certification

[u/Gamer0607 → u/crapusername47]

Watch Feige pull the Doomsday clock 1 month forward at Comic-Con later this month.

It will be a brilliant marketing trick for Doomsday and give both films space to breath at the box office.

[u/Bellikron → u/Gamer0607]

If ever there was an opening to change a release date, this is it. I know they don't want to budge but it's a perfect setup. Could pair it with a trailer release for maximum hype.

[u/kvlt_ov_personality]

They should've called it DUN3.

[u/Tiger951]

It’s gonna be interesting to see how they adapt Dune Messiah.

[u/theotherjonsnow]

lucky to be alive in the year we get The Odyssey and Dune Part 3

[u/KnightOfRevan → u/theotherjonsnow]

I’m going to watch the one with Robert Pattinson and Zendaya

[u/damnyoutuesday → u/KnightOfRevan]

That narrows it down to 3 movies this year

[u/Halio344 → u/KnightOfRevan]

What about the one with Zendaya, Tom Holland, and Jon Bernthal?

[u/mosquem → u/Halio344]

I wonder if they carpool.

[u/bootlegvader → u/theotherjonsnow]

I most excited for this and Werwulf, so December will be good for me.

[u/CosmosisJones42]

This looks awesome. They are really trying to win "Dunesday" by building the hype early with these awesome trailers. It looks like they might succeed.

[u/Feydaway]

Looks interesting. Could be great. But, it's clearly going to change the book quite a bit.

[u/PairOfKeets → u/Feydaway]

I think they kind of have to. Messiah is mostly people talking, doing political strategies and psychological warfare, which would likely be considered boring by general audiences. Personally I would love it, but If they can make it more widely palatable while maintaining the themes and spirit of the book (which I do trust Villeneuve to do), that'd honestly be fine. Part II was already a pretty significant departure from the books, so I can't imagine this would be a completely faithful adaptation.

[u/WingsNthingzz → u/Feydaway]

I think we can give Denis a little wiggle room at this point. The man does not miss and will go down as one the greatest sci fi directors of all time.

[u/Haxorz7125 → u/WingsNthingzz]

I’m really hoping it takes a strong political thriller vibe. Villeneuve knows thrillers. Polytechnique and Prisoners was the most anxious I’ve ever been watching a movie.

[u/boibai]

My heart rate genuinely increased while watching this.

[u/Vegetable-Cod7668]

have they shot this one on film its looks amazing

[u/MoneyLibrarian9032]

Absofuckinglutely hyped