Dune: Part Three Final Trailer Reveals a Plot Against Emperor Paul
Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary and IMAX released the final trailer for Dune: Part Three on October 27, along with a new poster. The film opens in theaters and IMAX on December 18, roughly seven weeks after the trailer. Tickets are on sale now.
It opens with an interrogation
Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) uses the Voice on his wife, Princess Irulan (Florence Pugh). He demands to know what she knows. She tells him an assassination attempt is coming and that Chani (Zendaya) is involved.
The film adapts Frank Herbert’s Dune Messiah and begins 17 years after Part Two. Paul is Emperor. He is married to Irulan and still has a relationship with Chani. Part Two ended with him choosing that marriage, which Chani took as betrayal.
The people working against him
Forces are plotting against Paul. One is the Bene Tleilax, a xenophobic sect of genetic manipulators. Scytale (Robert Pattinson) says the group has found a way to neutralise the emperor.
On Arrakis, Chani is asked whether she is ready. She answers that “Fremen keep their word.”
Hayt, Alia and the family
Jason Momoa returns as Hayt, a cloned human grown from the cells of Duncan Idaho. Paul asks him to protect his family. Hayt asks whether the emperor has the power to stop this himself.
Anya Taylor-Joy appears as Paul’s sister Alia, covered in blood. Javier Bardem returns as Stilgar and Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica.
The last exchange is about the children
Chani shouts through a haze of spice that she was doing this for their children. Paul says he is doing it for her. He adds that there is nothing he can say to make amends.
Villeneuve has described the film as being about separation, the idea of a divorce, and the trailer shows children now involved. He has also called it a thriller, with more action than the first two films.
Formats and dates
The film was shot mainly on 65mm, with some sequences on 15/70mm IMAX film and the desert scenes in IMAX Digital. Many viewers will look for 70mm IMAX. This is the first film since The Odyssey to release in that format, though only part of it is in the format.
Dune and Dune: Part Two return to IMAX on November 13, if you want a rewatch first. Dune: Part Three opens on the same day as Avengers: Doomsday, a date already nicknamed Dunesday.
The last Dune trailer
This is the last Dune film Villeneuve will direct, and the last one he and Chalamet will make in this universe. The first trailer for the first Dune arrived about six years ago. More footage is still expected in commercials and clips before opening day.
