Dune: Part 3 is Ready for the Dunesday with Its Trailer

The Dune: Part 3 trailer has been released, and it shows us the fallout of Part 2’s chilling ending. After all, this is the final part of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune trilogy.

The third movie was developed right after the success of Part 2. Director Villeneuve made sure to treat the source material delicately, as the book it adapts, Dune Messiah, is so dense and “weird.” Villeneuve also noted the intention of author Frank Herbert to write the end of Paul Atreides’ journey as a cautionary tale of a messianic figure.

What can we expect from Dune: Part 3? Check out below to see the short synopsis and the confirmed casts.

Dune: Part 3 trailer shows off the impact of Muad’dib’s Jihad

While the movie mainly adapts the Dune Messiah novel, it might also adapt some parts of the third novel, Children of Dune. We will explain this later.

Unlike the book, the movie is set 17 years after the ending of Part 2. It’s been years since the end of a bloody jihad done by the Fremen messiah Paul Atreides. Ever since he defeated the combined forces of House Corrino, House Harkonnen, and the Imperial Sardaukar at the end of Part 2, Paul is powerless to contain the Fremen people.

As such, the jihad went for 12 years. In the words of Dune Fandom, the jihad took “over 61 billion deaths, the destruction of ninety planets, the crippling of five hundred others, the extinction of forty religions, and the submission of at least ten thousand worlds unto the Atreides Empire.”

Despite the bloodshed, Paul saw that these events were far better than his prescient vision of humanity’s stagnation and extinction. As such, he still accepted the role of the Fremen messiah, hoping to secure a better future for humanity while bottling up his doubts and uncertainty.

Meanwhile, organizations and sects such as the Bene Gesserit, the Spacing Guild, and the Bene Tleilax conspire to dethrone Paul. From enlisting the help of Paul’s wife and Bene Gesserit member Princess Irulan to the appearance of Hayt, a ghola (humanoid clone) of Duncan Idaho, they want to make sure Paul is out of the picture.

With his prescient vision, how will Paul circumvent these plots and protect everything that is dear to him?

Dune: Part 3 confirmed casts

Some of the cast from the previous films are confirmed to take on their roles again. Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Florence Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Rampling, Anya Taylor-Joy, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin will return as Paul Atreides, Chani, Princess Irulan, Lady Jessica, Reverend Mother Mohiam, Alia Atreides, Stilgar, and Gurney Halleck, respectively.

Jason Momoa returns as Hayt, a ghola of Duncan Idaho, his previous character from Part 1. New characters include Farok, Paul’s former Fedaykin, played by Isaach de Bankolé.

Robert Pattinson will play Scytale, a Face Dancer from Bele Tleilaxu. Face Dancers are humanoid shapeshifters created by the Bene Tleilaxu to impersonate a particular person and infiltrate their society to control them from the inside.

Another interesting addition is Nakoa-Wolf Momoa and Ida Brooke, who will play Leto II and Ghanima Atreides, Paul and Chani’s twin children. This might hint that the film will also cover the Children of Dune novel, or at least some part of it.

In any case, Dune: Part 3 will start strong when it faces Avengers: Doomsday on the double header “Dunesday” on December 18.