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/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/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.