If you’re still wearing your Marty Supreme jacket, get ready for a costume change: it’s stillsuit season now. Yes, Timothée Chalamet is back for Dune: Part Three, ready to send Paul Atreides to the dark side in the final chapter of Denis Villeneuve’s epic Frank Herbert adaptation. Across Part One and Part Two, he largely tackled the events of Herbert’s first novel, Dune. Now, Part Three adapts Herbert’s sequel Dune Messiah, continuing Paul Atreides’ descent into all-consuming power as war rages on Arrakis and beyond. Check out the thunderously epic trailer:
Talk about event cinema; this looks gigantic, catapulting the story on from where Part Two left off, with Paul having overthrown the Harkonnens, drunk the Arrakis Kool-aid, and made some decisions set to plunge the galaxy into conflict. Last thing we saw, he’d agreed to marry Florence Pugh’s Princess Irulan, much to the dismay of Zendaya’s Chani, and foresaw a path of the future that led to millions of deaths. Now, there are whispers of Paul and Chani’s children, there are ominous images of a bloodied Paul striding across scorched battlefields, and Jason Momoa’s warrior Duncan Idaho is seemingly back from the dead.
Plus, we see more of Anya Taylor-Joy as Paul’s sister Alia (a literal foetus in Part Two — Part Three comes with a huge 17-year time jump), a stark new look for Robert Pattinson as the bleach-blonde Scytale, and Paul looking particularly ominous as he looks out over a vast army of chanting fighters. The trailer is packed, too, with more of the jaw-dropping production design and world-building that makes Villeneuve’s adaptation such a feast for the eyes (of Ibad).
Here’s hoping Part Three lives up to the epic qualities of the first two films – and brings a suitable conclusion to Villeneuve’s sci-fi opus. Hop on your nearest sandworm and head to the biggest screen you can find when it arrives on December 18.
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