The Fremen descended on CinemaCon, chanting, on Tuesday evening — as did Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa and filmmaker Denis Villeneuve to tease Dune: Half Three. To that, they unspooled the movie’s first seven minutes.
The clip opens with Fremen ships crusing via darkish, grey, foggy air, crashing down on a planet the place it’s raining. They chant and say “God be with us” earlier than heading into battle. Lasers fly at them, obliterating many.
Lastly, we reduce to extra of an prolonged preview of the entire movie, the place Momoa’s Duncan Idaho tells Chalamet’s Paul Atreides he’s “manner past redemption” after changing into a destroyer of worlds.
Earlier than airing the footage, Villleneuve joined a Fremen military onstage, the place some ascended on wires. He jokingly known as them his “entourage” and talked about his intention to make every new Dune film its personal “new cinematic expertise.”
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The third and ultimate movie in his trilogy, he mentioned, is “a thriller — action-packed, extra intense and undoubtedly extra emotional.”
His stars then joined him onstage as Villeneuve defined the place the story is headed. Within the new movie, he mentioned, it’s 17 years a later, and “a really completely different world” the place Atreides’ “nightmares turned actuality” and he’s left to grapple with “the implications of his choices.”
The movie is “a redemption story,” Villeneuve mentioned. “However nonetheless the heartbeat of the movie is that love story between Chani and Paul, [albeit] extra of a damaged love story.”
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Chalamet mentioned Paul has “turn out to be his worst imaginative and prescient and he’s struggling to … determine how one can defend these he loves whereas changing into the omnipotent darkish emperor of the universe.”
Zendaya added: “The years don’t appear to have been type to anybody in Dune. [It’s been] a extremely troublesome, difficult, ungentle and unkind few years,” although there’s “a lot left nonetheless to struggle for.”
She mentioned we’re catching her character, Chani, “at a really completely different place in her life the place that youthful outlook is totally gone.”
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And whereas Momoa’s character died in Dune: Half One, he’s again this time round via the facility of Ghola expertise.
Villeneuve informed the gang it was “emotional to say farewell to Paul and Chani within the desert. We turned like a small household. It’s like 10 years of our lives.”
Chalamet wrapped issues up by calling Villeneuve “the one … the actual Paul Atreides.”
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