Casting Dune 3 Continue to grow and Denis Villeneuve apparently chose who would play one of the great enemies of Paul Atreids.
At the end of February 2024, Denis Villeneuve revealed his Dune: second part And the continuation of the adventures of Paul Atreids. A great epic and political spectacle where the young “prophet” embodied by Timothée Chalamet managed to take power and kill, in turn, Baron Harkonnen and his nephew Feyd-Rautha. The two main antagonists of the story were therefore defeated, leaving the Champ-Libre to Paul Atreids to conduct his holy war through the universe.
Given the success of the film at the box office ($ 714 million harvested worldwide for 190 million budgets), Warner has decided to order a third film, still directed by Denis Villeneuve. He will adapt the novel The Messiah of Dunewhich will take place twelve years after the events of the second film, and will therefore follow Paul Atreids as an emperor. With this new status, he will have new enemies and precisely, Warner may have found a great actor to play one of them.
The enemy of the Messiah
According to Deadline, Robert Pattinson would indeed be about to join the casting of Dune 3. Even more, he should play the character of Scytalethe main antagonist of the novel. It is one of the leaders of a plot aimed at overthrowing Paul Atreids, who now reigns over the galaxy with an army of Fremen. And the conspiracy is extremely difficult to materialize since Paul always has his supernatural gifts to see the future.
-We are not going to say too much for novices, but Scytale does not act alone, since he is notably helped by the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohaim (Charlotte Rampling) and a guild navigator named Edric (not yet cast a priori). One thing is certain, it is an exciting character, especially becauseIt is a metamorph and that he is a member of the Tleilax, a company that practices genetic manipulation.
After he played a multitude of characters in Mickey 17, It will therefore be intriguing to see Robert Pattinson embodying scytal, pure role of villain As the actor has almost never played (except perhaps his horrible pastor in The Devil, all the time). The Briton confirms in any case his monstrous rating in Hollywood and elsewhere, since he will soon be in The Drama de Kristoffer Borgli (alongside Zendaya) and in Die, My Love by Lynne Ramsay, alongside Jennifer Lawrence.
He is also currently filming The Odyssey by Christopher Nolan, scheduled for a release in July 2026. Dune 3he should start filming this summer. So don’t worry about fans of the black knight, impatient to see The Batman 2. A priori, The presence of Robert Pattinson in the casting of Dune 3 does not question the production of Matt Reeves film (Rather planned to start filming at the end of 2025).
Pending new information on the casting, The release of Dune 3 is a priori scheduled for December 16, 2026.
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