Screenshot: Dune, part 2

Dune: Part 3 drops trailer full of fun in the sun

by · Boing Boing

Denis Villenueve's first two Dune (or DUNC depending on how badly you misread the poster) movies, with love to David Lynch, have been by far the best adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi novel. Evidently, Villeneuve has taken a little time before the next Bond film to hammer out a third Dune, this time adapting the original novel's sequel Dune Messiah and serving as a neat endpoint to his trilogy.

For those unfamiliar, Messiah is the one where Paul goes on a white-boy jihad and directly compares himself to Hitler. Unfortunately, ending with Messiah means we won't get to see the excesses of the later series put on screen, including the one where Paul's son turns into a giant worm.

I'm very excited to see how Villenueve preserves Chalamet's sadboy charm when he's murdering sixty billion people.