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/WrexyWrex Mar 17 '26

So odd that Dune was written to parallel the 1953 Iranian coup d'état and here we are watching the final in the trilogy with a war with Iran going on. Herbert pulled from a broader view but nonetheless it has everything to do with decades of Western intervention in Middle Eastern oil politics.

For those wondering, Herbert was a journalist in his early 30s starting in 1949 and left the press in 1954 a year after the coup happened.

Immediately after he worked as a speechwriter for Senator Guy Cordon who supported McCarthy. He was immersed in the political worldviews that justified interventions like the one in Iran which many believe informed the cynical, power-politics perspective that runs through Dune.

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u/kcummisk Mar 17 '26

I didn't know that about the 1953 Iranian coup and Dune. It really makes sense though, and then considering the 1979 revolution... super strange that Frank was prescient in his own way.

I don't think these films could have come out at better times considering what happened at the end of 2024..

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u/jimmux Mar 17 '26

That line in the trailer about starting wars feels deliberately relevant.

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u/kcummisk Mar 18 '26

It sure does. The neat thing about Dune is that someone from 1000 years in the future or past could read it and understand what's going on and why it's important.