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“Dune: Part Two” Second Trailer Out!
“A boy becomes the Messiah of nomads on a desert planet that has giant worms that protect a commodity called Spice. Spice changes people into travelers, mystics and madmen. What […]
“A boy becomes the Messiah of nomads on a desert planet that has giant worms that protect a commodity called Spice. Spice changes people into travelers, mystics and madmen. What price will he pay to become the new ruler of their universe?”
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writers: Frank Herbert, Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve
Staring: Florence Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson, Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Austin Butler, Léa Seydoux, Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsgård, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Tim Blake Nelson, Charlotte Rampling, Stephen McKinley Henderson
Release Date: November 3, 2023
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Well this is a surprise! A glorious, wonderful, beautiful and bountiful surprise! We have a new trailer for Dune: Part Two (2023) to dive into. And without a further ado, let’s let the spice wash over us.
The first thing from the trailer that sticks out like a beautiful sore thumb are the different color pallets. The first trailer showed off the chrome, black & gray framing of the Harkonnen home world. This second trailer really shows how cinematographer Greig Fraser is flexing his muscles. Fraser won the Oscar for Dune (2022), and he is gunning for a second Academy Award.
This second trailer has the desert texture as seen in the original, as well as the gray architecture and mood of the Harkonnen. A new addition to Dune: Part Two is an aggressive sheen. We see it first in the trailer with Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) bashing in the head of a Harkonnen (I think) soldier. It then pops up again before a battle sequence in the desert.
The biggest shock? We have some GREEN! The color green! And we have our first sighting of The Emperor! Christopher Walken is playing Emperor Shaddam IV and our first glimpses at him are glorious. He is talking with Princess Irulan Corrino (Florence Pugh) who is notifying him that Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) is still alive. The Emperor, seeing how he set up Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård) with the Sardukar to take down the Atreides house, does not like the notion that there is a living heir to a house he attempted to erase off the map.
Dune: Part Two is going to be a war movie, and it is going to escalate quickly. We see Paul Muad’Dib Atreides learning quickly with the Fremen, about the Fremen. We see Paul, at midway point of the trailer, embracing the guerrilla warfare with Chani (Zendaya). By the end of the preview, it is Muad’Dib atop a mountain speaking in the voice to an army of Fremen with more confidence than we have ever seen him have.
The major theme of the second half of this trailer revolves around the power Paul Muad’Dib chooses to have. We see Gurney Halleck (Josh Brolin) talking to Paul and asking why he doesn’t use the power of the Fremen’s belief in him. Paul notes to his thought-lost mentor that his powers as the Muad’Dib are not to be trifled with. All of his visions lead to horror, and it isn’t because he loses control, it’s because he fully gains it.
If you have done YouTube deep dives, or have had the time to read the books (God bless you if you have), you know what Paul is referring to. It is an eyebrow raising truth bomb from Paul that no one understands besides himself, and those who are more than just cursory fans of the franchise. For the record, I am only like one level above it so let’s learn more together.
Dune: Part Two is going to have components relating to crusades, genocide and revolution. We have a young man who is called a prophet, and actually is one in a real sense of the world. He is a new, but initially unwelcomed, leader of a stubborn group of outcasts who have distinct traits and customs solely unique to their people and environmental atmosphere. A unifying force between the new leader and the group he is at the helm of is a common enemy. This enemy is ruthless, power hungry, and they have friends in high places. But this enemy’s weakness? Hubris.
A tale as old as time.
Just some other tid-bits worth mentioning before closing up.
- The sequence in the trailer with the Bird’s Eye Shot of Paul walking through what appears to be a sea of Fremen….that is just outstanding. Chef’s Kiss.
- GOOD LORD, THE SHOT OF WORM RISING FROM THE SAND BEHIND PAUL??
- Denis Villeneuve still has a fantastic sense of scale and how to show it.
- Both trailers have parts of Lady Jessica’s transformation resulting from The Water Of Life. Seems like it is going to be a very big deal and we are going to get more Lady Jessica than in the book.
- For those who want to know what the Water Of Life is…it is a poisonous blue liquid (as seen in the trailer) that the Bene Gesserit use to turn their Sisters into Reverend Mothers. If the Sisters are not well trained, they die. If they survive…well they are elevated. HOWEVER, in the Fremen culture it is used when their Sayyadina (Fremen priestesses) are dying and someone needs to be elevated into that esteemed plain.
- It is interesting that Ramallo is not a character in the cast list for Dune: Part Two
- This whole thing is crazy to think about because the Bene Gesserit have been planting this theory/religion among the Fremen and on Arrakis for god knows how long, just showing how long they have been planning the world-encompassing scheme the Kwisatz Haderach.
- For those who want to know what the Water Of Life is…it is a poisonous blue liquid (as seen in the trailer) that the Bene Gesserit use to turn their Sisters into Reverend Mothers. If the Sisters are not well trained, they die. If they survive…well they are elevated. HOWEVER, in the Fremen culture it is used when their Sayyadina (Fremen priestesses) are dying and someone needs to be elevated into that esteemed plain.
- We got no real looks at Léa Seydoux as Lady Margot in this trailer, but we did get more Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.
- People who were upset with the lack of Zendaya in the first film are going to be very happy with her screen time in Dune: Part Two.
- Everyone is doing the Leo meme with the part of the trailer where Chani is in armor pulling the same kick-ass moves that Paul did in the first movie. And the superhuman pose at the end.
Dune: Part Two releases in theaters on November 3, 2023.
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