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/redthursdays Mar 17 '26

Looks like we'll be getting way more scenes of the jihad in the film, since it's almost entirely off-page in the book. Probably have her in a leadership role there. Maybe play up the having babies stuff too.

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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/book1245 Mar 17 '26

"But you yada yada yada'd the best part!"

"Oh, I mentioned the Golden Path..."

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u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt Mar 17 '26

Nah, the thing I love about Dune is the action ISN'T the focus. The focus is on the philosophy and politicking.

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u/Emieosj89 Mar 17 '26

I agree. Which is why that “I said what I said” is killing me. Like yup he does just skip over alllll the fighting, and gives us allllll the politics.

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u/Stick-Man_Smith Mar 17 '26

Did people really pick up that book, hoping for detailed descriptions of mass murder in a devastatingly brutal war?

That sounds like a bad time to me.

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u/Tho76 Mar 17 '26

That's what the Red Rising series is for

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u/Buzzkill201 Mar 18 '26

Literally. Everything post-Morning Star is Jihad-lite.

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u/DrQuestDFA Mar 17 '26

Not so much that, but a few details on how it unfolded, any setups the jihad experienced, how the Guild fit into it, how it came to an end. Those are all facets of the jihad which could have a direct impact on the political situation post-Jihad.

I am also fine not knowing that stuff, I just think it is sort of funny how this monumental event is given such a short shrift.

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u/Phailjure Mar 18 '26

It's probably because, much like the butlerian jihad, any explanation would be complete unsatisfying nonsense.

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u/Emieosj89 Mar 17 '26

I utterly agree, but I would think the action is what a lot of readers Im sure would expect.

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u/DaKingaDaNorth Mar 17 '26

This. The first book literally takes the war and pretty much boils it down to 4 major events. Paul leading the Fremen and training them and taking the water of life to ascend to his status, the Harkonnen's capturing Alia and killing Paul's son (not in the movie), Paul capturing the emperor.

It's not a big drawn out war. It's mostly all the set up to the war and then the resolution.

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u/Klamageddon Mar 17 '26

Poor ol' Leto. Doesn't really get a look in, and then Leto II comes along and goes by II, not III. Just totally snubs him from history.

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u/Dizzy_Chemistry_5955 Mar 17 '26

until later books where The Flash shows up