Dune: Part Three teaser trailer promises an epic conclusion

Dune: Part Two racked up nearly $700 million at the worldwide box office, paving the way for the third Dune film that writer/director Denis Villeneuve and stars Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya all expressed interest in making during the build-up to the second movie’s release. While the first two Dune movies were both based on the story told in Frank Herbert’s novel Dune, the third movie would move on to different source material: Dune Messiah, the second book in Herbert’s series. The film adaptation is simply called Dune: Part Three, and it’s heading for a December 18, 2026 theatrical release. With that date still nine months off, the first trailer for Dune: Part Three has just been unveiled, and you can check it out in the embed above.

Story and Cast

The novel Dune Messiah has the following description: Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known-and feared-as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the Known Universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremens, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne-and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence. And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family’s dynasty.

Chalamet and Zendaya returned to the roles of Paul Atreides and Chani for the new film, along with Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica, Josh Brolin as Gurney Halleck, Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho, Javier Bardem as Stilgar, Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan, Anya Taylor-Joy as Alia Atreides, Robert Pattinson as Scytale, Isaach de Bankolé as Farok, Nakoa-Wolf Momoa as Leto II Atreides, and Ida Brooke as Ghanima Atreides.

Epic Conclusion

Although the film is being promoted as “The Epic Conclusion,” Villeneuve has said that he doesn’t see it as the completion of a trilogy. “First, it’s important that people understand that for me, it was really a diptych. It was really a pair of movies that will be the adaptation of the first book. That’s done and that’s finished. If I do a third one, which is in the writing process, it’s not like a trilogy. It’s strange to say that, but if I go back there, it’s to do something that feels different and has its own identity.” Villeneuve added that the story “takes place like 12 years after where we left the characters at the end of Part Two. Their journey, their story is different this time, and that’s why I always say that while it’s the same world it’s a new film with new circumstances.” 

It does, however, “finish the Paul Atreides arc.“

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JoBlo’s own Ryan Cultrera attended a special trailer launch event last night, where Zendaya, Anya Taylor-Joy, Javier Bardem, Robert Pattinson, and Denis Villeneuve stopped by for a moderated panel. Ryan provided the following quotes:

Denis on his return to the series after originally planning to step away for a while:

What happened was two things. When we released part one, it was at the end of the pandemic, I was not really in contact with the audience. And when we released part two, I received that wave of excitement and love from part one and people wanted to see part two. I mean, and when we screened the movie first in Mexico, there were some 14,000 people outside the theater and 5000 people inside. And it was that kind of, roller coaster like that around the world where we see an excitement. And I felt an appetite for the third movie that I was not expecting. As a filmmaker, you know, when you make a series of movies like you want in the relationship with the audience. And I felt a responsibility to finish the story. I had told the crew “that’s it, bye bye”. I went back home, but I kept awaking to those images, inspired by Dune Messiah. I was supposed to do another movie in the meantime, but the image kept coming back and kept coming back so I said “ok lets do it”

Denis on what has changed since 17 years have passed since the events of Dune Part Two:

The world changed in those years. The climate is different on Arrakis, still the desert planet. But there are differences. We are visiting new sets, new places. I brought the camera and areas of the planet that you guys have not seen before. And, you know, we are visiting on new planets as well. And I wanted to approach this with a new pair of eyes.

Denis on technical elements of shooting and seeing the movie in theaters:

We decided to shoot most of the movie on film. I have not shot on film in years. We shot the movie in 65mm. A big part of it was shot in Imax film. First time for me. But I kept the desert in digital because I like the brutality of the digital Imax. So the movie is really meant to be an Imax experience, and to be seen on the biggest screen as possible. Those are epic cameras. I mean, those are the best camera in the world. And it was like, when you see the result on screen, it’s quite unmatchable. Cinema is an artform that is meant to make you travel and to experience things that, you will not live in the regular life. I think as human beings, it’s important to share experiences, artworks, communal experiences. Our lives right now, we are like, in our little bubbles all around the world. And I think that theater brings us together. And I think it’s that there’s something beautifully beautiful and human about that. It’s very important.

Denis on Hans Zimmer coming back:

Hans is working on the music already and and scoring. Yes, yes, yes. But it’s going to be, like the movie is different, the score will be different. And it’s something that Hans is very excited about. And, approaching the, with the same spirit as the first films. I insist it’s a Dune movie, but it WILL be different. I want the audience to be shocked as to where we take the story.

Denis on Dune Messiah as inspiration for Dune Part Three:

Dune Messiah is by far my favorite book of the series. It’s a very dark, beautiful book. I will say this, it is my one of my most personal films if not my most personal film. I think that is very close to me and very contemporary. It’s the story of Paul and Chani, they’re struggling with their relationship, having the burden and incredible pressure from the world around them. And Paul is trying to find a way out of this cycle of violence. And there’s something about that with their love and their time and with their relationship they evolve. That study on the relationship of both characters, that that is very personal.

Zendaya on having expanded screen time with Florence Pugh

Well, I want to start by saying I love Florence Pugh, who’s so talented and so wonderful in this world. And, I was just, we we said the last time the press tour, like, we only got, like, one scene together and we are far away. And I was like, I hope we get more. So I don’t want to, you know, tease anything. But she’s absolutely phenomenal. And, you know, we’ll just have to see for yourselves what happens. Because it’s, yeah, quite the journey.

Zendaya was asked if her and Paul have kids in this movie. Javier Bardem chimes in:

I AM her kid! Twist!

Javier Bardem on his character’s loyalty to Paul and where that brings him:

Well, I think it takes him to a place where, he sees different realities of what being empowered means after so long. He’s in this contradiction between the loyalty to the idea that he strongly fought and believed back in the day, and also the result of the idea becoming something that he thinks or feels may not be the one he dreamt about. Sounds complicated, but also is a complicated book. But what I mean, it’s a great analogy about the idea of power and having the power.

Anya Taylor Joy on her new character, Alia:

Alia has a very intense blessing curse situation. She carries the weight and the wisdom of generations and generations in her head. She’s never in a singular conversation. It’s kind of everything everywhere, all at once. The one thing that she really feels most strongly about is her love and devotion to her brother, because that’s the only person who’s ever made her feel like she makes sense. He’s understood her from before she was even born, and she will do anything for him to various degrees of insanity.

Robert Pattinson on joining Dune:

I absolutely adored these movies. I saw them multiple times in theaters. I just think it’s such a towering achievement and the cast is so incredible. And, I just think everybody wants to work with Denis, he’s a master. When you see the scope and scale and ambition of these movies, like on set, you get why they feel like this on the screen. It’s just like an extraordinary and amazing experience.

Robert Pattinson on his character, Scytale:

I mean, he’s an unusual character in the book. I mean, you can’t really tell who’s side he’s on. It’s kind of what makes it quite interesting. wouldn’t say it’s conventional. It’s an extremely fun character to play. The look for it is for the most extraordinary.

Denis on bringing back Duncan Idaho:

Frank Herbert. Genius. The idea is that, I think he created that kind of tremendous, charismatic character that. Our heart was broken, seeing him falling in the first one. We have the desire to see him back. And he comes back just at the right moment in the story. And it’s like a very, very important comeback. Paul is struggling with his identity, and having that kind of strong previous figure coming back from the past will have a tremendous impact. That’s what I will say.

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