Sorry, Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, but the star of this trailer is clearly the sandworm. “Nothing fancy,” Paul Atreides (Chalamet) promises as he runs off into the desert to try to ride the lightning sandworm.
But this is a Denis Villeneuve film. Everything is fancy.
Officially speaking, “Dune: Part Two will explore the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.”
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The cast of this film is stacked. Along with Chalamet and Zendaya, the returning cast includes Javier Bardem, Rebecca Ferguson, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Josh Brolin—but now we’ve also got Florence Pugh (as Princess Irulan), Léa Seydoux (as Lady Margot), Christopher Walken (as Emperor Shaddam IV), and Austin Butler as a hairless Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen.
(Sadly, Butler is not wearing the space diaper Sting made infamous when he played the role in David Lynch’s Dune.)
Dune: Part 2 also reunites much of the creative team from the first film, including Oscar winners director of photography Greig Fraser; production designer Patrice Vermette; editor Joe Walker; visual effects supervisor Paul Lambert; and composer Hans Zimmer. Villeneuve co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts (based on the Frank Herbert novel, of course).
Reviewing Dune: Part 1, Emmet Asher-Perrin wrote, “As eye candy and film tapestry, there is none better.” Part 2, unsurprisingly, looks like more of the same, though with more drama, and maybe more sand? Can you really quantify the amount of sand in a Dune movie? Do we even want to try?
Dune: Part 2 is in theaters November 3rd.
