Dune: Half Three goes to be a really totally different chapter within the saga of Paul Atreides, and Timothée Chalamet is already setting the expectations. The sci-fi epic from Denis Villeneuve jumps ahead in time, inserting Paul years deeper into energy and burden, and in keeping with its star, that shift basically reshapes who this character is and the way the story feels.
Talking with GamesRadar+ whereas selling his upcoming movie Marty Supreme, Chalamet opened up about what followers can count on when Paul returns to the display screen. The actor confirmed the third movie takes place roughly 15 to twenty years after the occasions of the earlier film, and that point hasn’t been variety or easy for the as soon as reluctant messiah.
“With out giving an excessive amount of away about Dune: Half Three, however I’m enjoying older. And in addition somebody who’s been impacted by years of management and carries that weight. It is totally different.”
That evolution doesn’t simply have an effect on Paul as a personality, it additionally presents a inventive problem for the movie itself. When requested how that maturity and historical past may affect the tone of the film, Chalamet talked about Villeneuve’s strategy to tackling a 3rd installment after two broadly praised movies.
“I do not need to say an excessive amount of. However what I’ll say is Denis’ been so extremely spot on about realizing the problem. I imply, loads of the inventive conversations Denis and I had – that are actually his inventive nook, and worldview and script growth that I actually have little to do with – had been nicely conscious of the challenges of constructing a 3rd movie.
“And I believed it was inspiring from an artist’s perspective, not essentially from an performing one, however from an artist’s perspective, to go, ‘Wow, take a look at this man actually meet the challenges of a 3rd movie head on, when the primary two have been well-received’.”
Outdoors of Dune, Chalamet has been juggling drastically totally different inventive areas, which he says truly labored in his favor. Filming Marty Supreme again to again with Dune: Half Three helped him mentally separate the roles, reasonably than blur them collectively.
“Had the roles been comparable, it might need been extra sophisticated. I’d have thought, ‘Oh, man… How do I not let these roles bleed into one another?’”
“They’re such totally different roles and the tones of the movie couldn’t be extra totally different. A high-wire, Safdie brother, New York, Nineteen Fifties interval piece a few borderline delusional, bold character in distinction to a Denis Villeneuve sci-fi epic house opera.”
Manufacturing on Dune: Half Three wrapped final month, with Chalamet reuniting with Zendaya, Florence Pugh, Josh Brolin, Christopher Walken, and Jason Momoa. The forged additionally expands with the addition of Robert Pattinson.
The movie adapts Dune: Messiah by Frank Herbert, inserting Paul on the heart of an intergalactic battle because the Fremen conflict with each main energy within the galaxy over management of Spice. It’s a darker, extra politically charged story, and one which calls for a heavier, extra seasoned Paul Atreides at its core. Chalamet will nonetheless appear like he’s 15, although.
Dune: Half Three arrives in theaters on December 18, 2026, and if Chalamet’s feedback are any indication, this gained’t simply be a continuation. It’s a reckoning.
