Denis Villeneuve is already working on Dune part 2In fact, he was already thinking about her since the first part was released and months ago he revealed that the sequel would focus more on the character of Zendaya, and would have more action.
The first part of Dune received several nominations for Oscar 2022, was a box office success and broke the supposed curse that previous adaptations suffered (it was said that the novel was impossible to adapt and that anyone who tried it was doomed to fail), so there are high expectations for the sequel and the details that have been revealed make it sound better than the first.
Not much is known about it, but the books give us an idea of the direction Villeneuve is going to take now, plus there are a number of key characters that will need to appear that are already starting to generate rumors about the possible actors that are going to play them. interpret, of Florence Pugh a Barry Keoghanwho is rumored to be Joker on The Batman, and Robert Pattinson.
Dune part 2: the new characters
Feyd-Pautha Harkonnen
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Barry Keoghan
This character is the sadistic and cruel nephew of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (who had the Atreides killed in the first part), and is one of Paul Atreides’ enemies in the story. Feyd wants to take his uncle’s place from him, but the Baron has bigger plans and wants to make him the new Emperor, and Paul is a major obstacle they must remove.
Who will be Feyd-Pautha? According to the DeuxMoi blog, three great actors are competing for this character, it is about Harry Styles (which will be Eros in the Eternals sequel), Tom Holland and Robert Pattinsonalthough other rumors assure that Barry Keoghan He is also in the running to play the psychopath who will square off against Timothée Chalamet’s character.
Florence Pugh es Princess Irulan
This character from the novels of Frank Herbert she is described as a “tall blonde woman, with green eyes, a face of patrician beauty, classical in its hauteur, untouched by tears, completely undefeated”, who catches Paul’s eye. She is the daughter of the Emperor and a marriage to her could help him secure her place as next in line, although he is in love with Chani and sees her union with Irulan as a strategy.
Irulan is also a kind of historian who tells part of the story of Paul Atreides in the novels. She appears as a narrator in the David Lynch film, but Villenueve chose not to use that.
In this case, Anya Taylor-Joy sounded like one of the favorites, but everything indicates that the role will be Florence Pugh, who is already in negotiations, so this would be his second film with Chalamet, the two appeared together in Little Women.
Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV
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Mads Mikkelsen
We did not see the emperor in the first part of Dune, but every fan of the novels knows that it was he who sent the Atreides to Arrakis and that he did so as part of a strategy to eliminate them, since they were gaining a lot of power and popularity. among the noble families of the universe.
It is a calculating character who is going down a very bad path, and three actors have been mentioned to play him, Mads Mikkelsen (who will appear in the new Fantastic Beasts movie), Michael Fassbender and Benicio del Toro, whom we recently saw as a criminal in The French Dispatch.
Alia Atreides
Paul’s younger sister appeared as a baby in part 1 of Dune, but she is an extremely important character in the story, as, having been exposed to the Water of Life, she is born with the abilities of a Reverend Mother de las Bene Gesberis which means that he has great power and will play a key role in his brother’s story.
For now it is not known who Alie could be, but it will have to be a child actress who has the ability to show all the complexities of a character that is very adult on the inside.