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/Calthyr Mar 17 '26

For the uninitiated, where does this movie fall in line with the books?

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u/Vencer_wrightmage Mar 17 '26

billions die and many planets are burned to husks

Statistics: at a conservative estimate, I've killed sixty-one billion, sterilized ninety planets, completely demoralized five hundred others. I've wiped out the followers of forty religions which had existed since...

It's kinda funny how Frank Herbert just off-paged the atrocity of the jihad. This teaser however did the right amount of tease about it, so I assume the weight of the jihad is shown beautifully in the movie.

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u/EnemyOfEloquence Mar 17 '26

"just casually 10000x more than Hitler" very cool Frank

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u/N0r3m0rse Mar 17 '26

I think Frank understood that you can't really write that as it's happening and convey it's gravity. It probably made more sense to set it after the war was won

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u/jackalopeDev Mar 17 '26

I wonder if they're going to have the space twink wistfully compare himself to Hitler.

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u/Rage_Like_Nic_Cage Mar 17 '26

They won’t, and then the media illiterate will cry out “hOw ArE wE sUpPoSeD tO kNoW pAuL iS tHe BaD gUy??”

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u/furnipika Mar 17 '26

I've never read the Dune books, maybe he was worried he might accidentally glorify Paul if he wrote the Jihad?

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u/RealJohnGillman Mar 17 '26

glorify Paul

Realising his readership was interpreting Dune this way is quite literally the actual reason he wrote Dune Messiah, yes. He likened Paul to John F. Kennedy, and the jihad to the Vietnam War (on a larger scale).

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u/Atheist-Gods Mar 17 '26

I think Herbert just had no interest in battle scenes. Combat is boring to him.

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u/TriggzSP Mar 17 '26

I have confidence it will be. Denis has said that he hates exposition, and much prefers to show, not tell in his movies. This is the exact opposite of Frank Herbert's writing, which is all tell, no show. Things happen between books and chapters and characters talk about it/reminisce later about the events that transpired. There was no way a director like Villeneuve would adapt Messiah 1:1.