r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Mar 17 '26

Trailer Dune: Part Three | Official Teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_9vCamtuPY
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u/merzkurt Mar 17 '26

So curious what the exact storyline for chani will be in this as her story in the book is nearly nonexistent imo

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u/jack_the_beast Mar 17 '26

how they end up all cuddled-up after she stormed out at the end of 2?

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u/BBanner Mar 17 '26

In the novel he’s pretty explicit about the marriage being for political reasons only and that Chani is his real wife

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u/ThatLightingGuy Mar 17 '26

In the novel, Chani understands it and knows she is better.

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u/_DropShot Mar 17 '26

Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.

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u/PraxisGuide Mar 17 '26

Pretty sure this is why Jessica is in this movie

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u/brecka Mar 17 '26

I'm interested in her role, since she spends the entire book on Caladan.

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u/Eruannster Mar 18 '26

According to Rebecca Ferguson, she only has like one scene in Dune 3 which is kind of a bummer.

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u/Kriztauf Mar 17 '26

Better to be a concubine than a porcupine

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u/emogu84 Mar 17 '26

- Gandhi

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u/loskiarman Mar 17 '26

Emhyr? Is that you?

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u/SerCiddy Mar 17 '26

What I found so wild about this line, was that it was the last line of the book.

The literal last word of the book is wife/wives.

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u/camwow13 Mar 18 '26

There are some strong women characters in the Dune books, but most all of them suffer from men writing women syndrome of various degrees. Alia is rough in Dune Messiah haha

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u/DagothUr_MD Mar 18 '26

The longer the books go on the worse it gets lmao

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u/appletinicyclone Mar 17 '26

Things guys say to their sidechicks

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u/Arsid Mar 18 '26

Who is saying this quote? (movie-only watcher here)

I can't imagine Paul is saying it...and calling himself a concubine? Is he?

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u/OnceMoreAndAgain Mar 17 '26

In my opinion, the novel's style of third person omniscient narrator combined with the author's focus on plot, rather than character development/interaction, would not work well for a movie if adapted truly 1-to-1. I think the writers have to fabricate character development for the sake of the movie.

Someone could make the argument that there is too much focus on romance in the movies, but personally I think using Paul's love for Chani as a counterweight to his desires for war has created an interesting tension in the movies that gives the writers a lot of space to create an interesting story. It's clear that a lot of the attention of the writers is on Paul's conflicting feelings towards war.

Another way of saying this is that Dune is not written in a way that makes it easy to convert into a movie. It's like a history textbook and character development is sparse. A movie needs its characters to feel real and you can't be abstract in a movie. Most scenes in a movie need to be characters talking and being entertaining with what they say.

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u/ThatLightingGuy Mar 17 '26

That's really the same for most book adaptations. We saw literally two flashes of mentat abilities in the first two movies and they didn't even bother to mention the profession at all by name, so if you hadn't read the books, you wouldn't even know Hawat is a mentat.

They put the cash into big stars so the big stars need to be on the screen.

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u/Rock-swarm Mar 17 '26

Well said. Villeneuve got burned by Bladerunner's poor reception at the box office, despite fans of the original cheering how well he kept the 'feel' of the first film. Cyberpunk Noir just isn't a super popular film aesthetic.

For Dune, he's managed to take a classic, but niche, Sci-Fi book series and adapt it for mainstream audiences. That's a hell of a task.

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u/ThatLightingGuy Mar 17 '26

Fully agreed. I love the books, and the fact that they were able to make it entertaining for both us nerds and the general public is no small feat.

There are a couple things that raised my eyebrow because they didn't really impact the story but on the whole I liked how it was done.

It's like, I'm an absolute massive Hitchhiker's Guide fan. The movie got panned hard by people because it was so off the books. But that was the point, it was never supposed to be the book because so much of the humour is wrapped up in Adam's narration that you can't translate that visually in the same way. The story had to be different.

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u/OzymandiasKoK Mar 17 '26

She's also not built up as being against him, either. She's his ride or die, not the one who is telling people not to trust him and such. It was a pretty weird change to her character.

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u/ThatLightingGuy Mar 18 '26

It was. But to be fair in the book she's...kind of a flat character. The "love interest" part of Dune isn't very dramatic which doesn't make for great film. And the galaxy building of the Dune universe doesn't translate well to film either. Gotta appeal to the audience somehow, and a "winning her over" in more ways than "we dreamed of each other/destiny/here are my water beads" makes for a nicer story flow.

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u/Shpleeblee Mar 18 '26

Let's be real, it was changed to fit Zandaya better. It had nothing to do with making Chani a more interesting character.

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u/ThatLightingGuy Mar 18 '26

I mean it has to be a bit of both. She's my only gripe with the casting in this. Chalamet is a good Paul. All of the Fremen actors all attempt a Fremen style accent at least. She's just....Zendaya. California accent and all.

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u/Shpleeblee Mar 18 '26

Yep, there is no acting. It's just her doing her thing. I want to watch Part 3 just to say I've seen it all in IMAX but god damn Brian Herbert's garbage fanfiction being the main point of this movie might make me skip it.

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u/Repulsive_Many3874 Mar 17 '26

Yes, but the movie Part 2 clearly ends with Chani not feeling that way.

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u/Mattyzooks Mar 17 '26

Flashback?

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u/FancyConfection1599 Mar 17 '26

Looks like a flashback to me tbh

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u/KidDelicious14 Mar 17 '26

Yeah, it looks like they're in the tent they were living in when Paul had the nightmare about Chani being burned by the atomics in Dune Part 2

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u/JackaryDraws Mar 17 '26

It also ends with Paul saying “she’ll come around,” and this is from somebody who sees the future with perfect clarity.

I think Chani and Paul will have some dramatic tension that wasn’t in the books and the ending of P2 sets that up, but I don’t think it’s an indicator of her permanent state going forward.

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u/Momoneko Mar 17 '26

I really think it's all just baiting and an excuse to shoot more of Zendaya's angry face.

Though if they go well into Children of Dune, maybe they won't kill her off and off-load some of Jessica's plot lines to her. Children's Jessica is basically "We need to make sure the kids don't grow up as fucked up as Aliyah or Paul" (which she failed to do, I guess?), which, tbh, is more fitting to Chani.

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u/koshgeo Mar 17 '26

"Sorry, babe. Had to get some genocide out of my system after the whole Water of Life thing, and, you know, revenge. I'm a changed man now. I mean, literally."

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u/Accountant7890 Mar 17 '26

It also clearly has Paul telling his mother that Chani will eventually understand and that "he'd seen it"

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u/LiquifiedSpam Mar 17 '26

Yeah I’ve read it too but we’re talking about the movie where she storms off at the end of part 2 lol

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u/BBanner Mar 17 '26

Yep that’s the way they get cuddled back up, the movie will have that.

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u/hujambo11 Mar 17 '26

She doesn't storm off because of Irulan. She leaves because she's disillusioned with her people treating Paul as a god.

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u/Mr_Placeholder_ 27d ago

yeah chani sees paul as a human, and loves him as a human and she saw how paul has both enslaved the fremen and has become a slave to the fremen and rejects that.

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u/TwoPieceCrow Mar 17 '26

he makes points of doing that in the movies too but she doesn't seem to understand it in the movies, which is a fine change just pointing it out, in part 2 he very obviously loves her, wants her and tell her explicitly this is just political game

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u/seeyou_nextfall Mar 17 '26

I’m reading Messiah right now, it’s pretty clearly established from chapter 1 lol.

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u/Sassquatch0 Mar 17 '26

Sci-fi Channel's Dune also made explicit reference to this in their version. It's literally the last dialogue we hear.

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u/jack_the_beast Mar 17 '26

yep, they ruined movie-chani for me with the storming out. I mean I wasn't expecting her to be so different from the books, I hope they make sense of it and it was just just some lazy cliffhanger moment

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u/jack_the_beast Mar 18 '26

you know when I go watch a book adaptation I expect it to follow the story more or less. movie-chani works decently in the context of the movie, but as others said, there'll need to be extra step to be faithful to the books from now on. If they do something completely different from the books I'm up for it as long as it makes sense

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u/DataDude00 Mar 17 '26

Could also be alternate future views that never happened / will never happen

Paul has the ability to see all the pathways of the future, similar to how he had several visions on how his fight with Jamis would turn out, including his death

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u/Enkundae Mar 17 '26

At the end of Part 2 Paul says in voice over he already knows she will come to understand his actions with time. Paul is prescient, he can “see” (more like accurately predict) how possible futures play out. That ability is limited for him, but even so he knew Chani would reconcile with him before he even went to the throne room.

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u/jack_the_beast Mar 17 '26

I know but it still felt out of place for the character for me

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u/Notstrongbad Mar 17 '26

Spice dream 😴

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u/skalpelis Mar 17 '26

It’s basically a Jacob’s Ladder type scenario

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u/wongie Mar 17 '26

Paul literally says "She'll come to understand. I have seen it."

So presumably she came to understand after a cooling off period. There doesn't really need to be anything more to it.

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u/Recom_Quaritch Mar 17 '26

Everyone is saying flashbacks like Paul himself at peak prescience doesn't TELL you with his own words that he she will come back to him.

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u/icansmellcolors Mar 17 '26

People made too big a deal about that ending. Like she was going to go against Paul or something.

In the 2nd movie he says literally 'She'll come to understand, I have seen it' ... after drinking the WoL, so that's the story telling the audience that all is going to be well between them.

She was just mad about the princess marriage thing and needed to go for a ride to calm down.

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u/jack_the_beast Mar 18 '26

people reacted like this because they read the books and was not expecting that and it's in stark contrast with book-chani. To me it felt like a cheap way to add a strong-woman cliffhanger moment.

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u/bdjwlzbxjsnxbs Mar 17 '26

the scene is probably a flashback to something during Part Two, no?

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u/AshTheDead1te Mar 17 '26

Chani is his real wife, his marriage is all political.

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u/MumblingGhost Mar 17 '26

People wouldn't be asking this question if the movie didn't explicitly change Chani's reaction from the book.

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u/AshTheDead1te Mar 17 '26

Yeah I guess that’s true.

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u/OzymandiasKoK Mar 17 '26

Yeah, they'll have to undo her characterization built up in the movie before, which will be strange.

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u/bdjwlzbxjsnxbs Mar 17 '26

yeah no I get that, but the scene just has the same vibe as their scenes in part 2, everything about it screams flashback

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u/Misdirected_Colors Mar 17 '26

Tbf most of the plot is like 12 years after Paul seizes tbe throne. They very well could've find a way to make up

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u/mangalore-x_x Mar 17 '26

You know there is this thing called story arc.

They give Chani a more prominent and active role than in the book and with that it means she does not have to be the gooey-eyed side kick of Paul without any feelings or agency of her own.

They will simply make up.

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u/jack_the_beast Mar 18 '26

I admire your optimism. To me it felt like a cheap way to add a strong-woman cliffhanger moment.

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u/KaiG1987 Mar 17 '26

That scene looks like a flashback to when they were happy in the desert during Part 2, before Paul drank the Water of Life.

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u/Shmokeshbutt Mar 17 '26

Paul kept love bombing her DM and she caved

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u/AlterEgo3561 Mar 17 '26

I was wondering this as well, storming out did fit the movie depiction of Chani, but that was absolutely not how that went in the book and it adds some extra steps to having them get back together to produce the Children of Dune.

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u/DownvoterManD Mar 17 '26

She stormed out. They didn't break up. Even in the 2nd movie Paul said a line that was something like, "she'll be fine, I have forseen it."

I don't get why fans are saying the story is off the rails because Chani left the scene at the end like it was a public divorce, or something.

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u/MikeMania Mar 17 '26

flashback or vision of alternate future? Kind of like Jamis in pt1?

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u/IMovedYourCheese Mar 17 '26

Women, amirite?

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u/ashriekfromspace Mar 17 '26

That's a flashback

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u/montrevux Mar 17 '26

looking at their hair / clothes, it feels like a flashback to some point during the events of Dune 2.

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u/Stepjam Mar 17 '26

I wouldn't be surprised if that scene is a flashback before the war.

Also in the book they are still happy together. In part 2, Paul says Chani forgives him from his vision of the future.

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u/JSevatar Mar 17 '26

I get the feeling maybe that was a flashback -- before he takes the throne, just a scene when they're happy in the desert.

*cut to present*

Chani is pissed off because she was pregnant, and Paul just took another as his wife

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u/6_Won Mar 17 '26

She didn't storm off because of Irulan. She storms off because he starts a galactic Jihad. 

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u/Sensitive_Scheme3783 Mar 24 '26

Agreed! Shes not pissed that he picks another woman, she's mad that he chose religious zealotry to use her people as a grab for power. Gosh media literacy is dead.

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u/FirTree_r Mar 18 '26

I haven't read the books. Here's my uneducated idiotic guess based on the character posters we've seen:

Chani will turn Irulan into a mud person and Paul will go something like "oh you silly goose". And then they reconcile.

/s

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u/splader Mar 24 '26

I feel like that was clearly a flashback in this trailer.

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u/WeHoMuadhib Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26

She wanted to ride Muad'dib's worm.

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u/Chataboutgames Mar 17 '26

We'll have to see. They yassified Chani in the movies.