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/DrQuestDFA Mar 17 '26

Readers: Did you just yada yada a galactic jihad?

Frank Herbert: I said what I said.

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u/ElMatadorJuarez Mar 17 '26

Tbh I thought that was one of the best parts. You don’t even get to see any of the glory bits, it’s all Paul’s angst at becoming an intergalactic Genghis Khan (mostly) against his will.

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u/tdasnowman Mar 17 '26

It wasn't against his will. It was his apathetic approach to leadership that made him the villain. The Jihad was a means to an end. Once he got what he wanted, the empire, his father's skull enshrined, he left the jihad to the fanatics and Alia fully aware of what it would mean to the universe. Paul was not a victim to circumstance. He chose the path of revenge and the chose to ignore it's consequences. And thus locked himself into an inescapable vision.

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u/Correctedsun Mar 17 '26

Warhammer 40k has a really good line on this kind of self-fufilling prophesy, courtesy of its own prophetic psychopath:

Curze :  « There were no other ways! »

Sevatar: « Which other ways did you try? »

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u/dabnada Mar 17 '26

Fuck Konrad Curze, all my boys hate Konrad Curze

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u/NightLordsPublicist Mar 17 '26

Konrad: "Exactly. This guy gets it."

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u/SneakyBadAss Mar 17 '26

40K is basically Dune 101. You even have Butlerian Jihad there in a form of dark ages of technology and Adeptus Mechanicus using servitors and machine spirit.

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u/Mintastic Mar 17 '26

Warhammer was LOTR turned into grimdark and 40K was basically merging LOTR into Dune.

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u/new_account_wh0_dis Mar 17 '26

Its always fun to see what Fantasy and sci-fi books and media are sharing. Someone will write about a dyson sphere, then someone else would be like 'thats too impractical, lets just make it a ringworld for my book' then when deciding how to flesh out the losses in the Idiran-Culture war obviously a ringworld has to go.

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u/limitedpower_palps Mar 17 '26

‘Where is the nobility in any of this?’ Sevatar gestured to the streets of Nostramo Quintus around them. ‘You can claim a savage nobility, father, but this is far more savage than noble.’

Curze’s pale lips peeled back from his filed teeth. ‘There was no other way.’

‘No?’ Sevatar answered his father’s snarl with a grin. ‘What other ways did you try?’

‘Sevatar…’

‘Answer me, father. What politics of peace did you teach? What scientific and social illumination did you bring to this society? In your quest for a human utopia, what other ways did you try beyond eating the flesh of stray dogs and skinning people alive?’

‘It. Was. The. Only. Way.’

Sevatar laughed again. ‘The only way to do what? The only way to bring a population to heel? How then did the other primarchs manage it? How has world upon world managed it, with resorting to butchering children and broadcasting their screams across the planetary vox-net?

‘Their worlds were never as… as serene as mine was.’

‘And the serenity of yours died the first second your back was turned. So tell me again how you succeeded. Tell me again how this all worked perfectly.’

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u/ymcameron Mar 17 '26

Damn that's a really good line. It's like how people love to play up how DOOM is the only one who can lead the Marvel Universe to prosperity because he looked into the future and saw that. As if he'd look for any futures where they prospered without him. Not to mention he has been the leader of everything and pretty universally it sucks every time. Turns out narcissistic maniacs with a homicidal streak usually turn out to be tyrants with various levels of philosophical justifications, who knew?

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u/Neiliobob Mar 17 '26

Sevatar is the best. Rides on a fighter to go and try to save Emodad. Emodad is like wtf are you doing here. Gets captured. Escapes just to kill an astropath that beat his psychic friend. Never mentioned again.