The first trailer of Dune: Part Three is expected to arrive soon, giving us our first look at the final installment in Denis Villeneuve’s masterpiece trilogy. And while we still don’t know specific details about the plot, it’s expected to be based on Frank Herbert’s second novel,\u00a0Dune Messiah.<\/p>\n
With the trailer presumably right around the corner,\u00a0Dune\u00a0star\u00a0Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, as part of Variety and CNN’s town hall event with Matthew McConaughey, briefly talked about the highly anticipated movie. While staying clear of plot details,\u00a0Chalamet did briefly touch on the overall tone of the film, calling it “the eeriest” of the three movies.<\/p>\n
Revealing some of the inspirations behind his portrayal of Paul Atreides in the Dune movie trilogy,\u00a0Chalamet listed\u00a0McConaughey, Heath Ledger, and Marlon Brando.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhat I think you see at the end of the second one, and across the third one, is yourself in \u2018Interstellar\u2019 and Heath Ledger in \u2018The Dark Knight\u2019 and Marlon Brando in \u2018Apocalypse Now\u2019 and stuff like that. Actually, wait, let me rephrase all of that! Hold up. I cannot put myself in that same boat. Let\u2019s just say, it\u2019s these big movies where you could sneak in something. A curveball.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Chalamet also named fellow co-star Oscar Isaac, who played Paul’s father Leto Atreides in the first Dune movie, as an inspiration.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe treated it in a Shakespearean way \u2014 to play it heightened and not really care about it being heightened,” Chalamet said, explaining that watching Isaac encouraged him to take “more liberty than ever.”<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt kind of thrown by the futurism,\u201d Chalamet said of his experience filming the first movie.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI was coming off \u2018Beautiful Boy\u2019 and \u2018Call Me by Your Name\u2019 and movies that were a lot more naturalistic, and this was a huge movie, so I felt intimidated. But especially on this third one, all the great shit you see on screen is from freedom of movement and freedom of choice. And with Denis, we really had a good rhythm. It\u2019s the eeriest one. It\u2019s a big swing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anyone familiar with Dune Messiah can understand why Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet describes the third film as the eeriest chapter yet. Set 12 years after the events of Dune: Part Two, Paul Atreides now rules as Emperor of the Known Universe. But with a holy war spreading across the galaxy in his name, billions dead from the Fremen crusade, and powerful factions conspiring against him, Paul is no longer merely a warrior hero,\u00a0he is a haunted ruler, trapped by prophecy and the devastating consequences of his own rise.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the interview, Chalamet also touched on the sci-fi technology, comparing his experience on Dune: Part Three to the first movie.<\/p>\n
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\u201cOn the first \u2018Dune,\u2019 we had an ornithopter sequence that I got a chance to do again in the third, but this time I was way more geared up. On \u2018Dune 3,\u2019 as opposed to the first movie, I came out early and studied the control panel \u2014 all sorts of hieroglyphics and things that aren\u2019t tethered to reality. I wanted to know what each button did, and invent a dynamic for myself with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Dune: Part Three\u00a0is currently scheduled to hit theaters on December 18, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first trailer of Dune: Part Three is expected to arrive soon, giving us our first look at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[82567,21578,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-440885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-dune","tag-dune-part-three","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}