A Sense of Doubt blog post #4051 - Dune 3: First Look
Getting excited for the the final part of the DUNE SAGA in films.
AND favorite author Brian K. Vaughan has screen writing credits with Denis Villeneuve on this third part.
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"Dune: Part Three" will, as previously reported, be an adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1969 sequel to "Dune," "Dune Messiah." We here at /Film have been tracking developments as they broke, including the news that Rebecca Ferguson, who played Paul's mother, Lady Jessica, in the first two Villeneuve "Dune" movies, will have little screen time in the next film. She said in interviews that she wasn't meant to be in the film at all, but that Villeneuve included her in a few scenes at the last minute.
There have already been some alterations to Herbert's texts in Villeneuve's movies. Most notably, Paul's young sister Alia remained unborn in the films, whereas in the original book, she grew into something of a mystical child. In Villeneuve's vision, Alia was an adult, played by Anya Taylor-Joy in psychic visions. Although Frank Herbert wrote six novels in his "Dune" book series, Denis Villeneuve has said (in an interview with Empire Magazine) that "Dune: Part Three" will wrap up his film trilogy. Whether other filmmakers intend to pick up the baton and continue making "Dune" movies based on Herbert's books remains to be seen.
For those unfamiliar with the "Dune" novels, "Dune: Part Three" seems to be following "Dune Messiah" pretty closely. The book is set about 12 years after the events of the last novel, after Paul Atreides has taken control of the desert planet Arrakis, the galaxy's only known source of a hallucinogenic spice that is necessary for space travel. He has instigated a blood jihad across worlds and has essentially taken over most of the known universe. Indeed, the jihad has already gotten out of hand, and he is responsible for the deaths of billions and billions of people. He is convinced, however, that this was actually the best possible outcome for humans; some psychic visions revealed that things could have gone much worse.
The book also involves clones (Jason Momoa will return as a clone of his deceased character, Duncan Idaho) and new sects vying for access to Paul, each with an agenda of their own. As we all know, the plots of the "Dune" movies are complex and involve an ongoing, multi-faceted attack on the shifting seats of power. "Dune: Part Three" promises to retain a lot of that complexity, although its fealty to the source material remains to be seen. Filming on "Dune: Part Three" has officially wrapped, and Warner Bros. released character posters shortly after Chalamet's post.
The images BELOW are the first in what will likely be a yearlong media blitz leading up to the release of Villeneuve's film. We'll give more updates as they come.
Read the original article on SlashFilm.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/anya-taylor-joy-says-theres-131619636.htmlAnya Taylor-Joy has shared a little more about her Dune 3 character, Alia Atreides, and it sounds like she's a force to be reckoned with.
"She is one of a kind," Taylor-Joy said during an appearance on the Today Show, after we caught the first glimpse of her character in the Dune 3 trailer. "There's never been anybody like her. She's named 'the Abomination,' and a lot of people find her really creepy, except for her brother. She has absolute prescience. She lives with the voice of generations of people in her head; she's never in a singular conversation, and that can drive someone a little bit crazy."
Alia is the sister of Timothée Chalamet's Paul Atreides, who we saw in Paul's visions and via her communication with her mother, Lady Jessica, in the womb in Dune 2. There's a pretty major time jump between the sequel and the threequel, though, so Alia is all grown up now.
In Frank Herbert's novel Dune Messiah, on which Denis Villeneuve's adaptation is based, Alia is born with the full powers of a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother. This is why the rest of the Bene Gesserit consider her an "Abomination," as she's had the consciousness of an adult since she was a baby.
Next up for Taylor-Joy, though, is something a little lighter – The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, the sequel to 2023's animated hit, which hits the big screen on April 1. She reprises her role as Princess Peach alongside Chris Pratt as Mario, Charlie Day as Luigi, and new cast members, including Donald Glover as Yoshi and Brie Larson as Princess Rosalina.
Dune 3 arrives in theaters on December 18. For more on what to watch, fill out your calendar with our guide to 2026's biggest movie release dates.
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