New ‘Dune’ Images Tease The Epic Battles And Timothée Chalamet’s Desert Odyssey
As we get closer to the release ofDenis Villeneuve’sDune, it appears that Warner Bros. has been happy to let the spice flow. And by spice, I mean spicy new images from the highly anticipated film based on Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi novel. Last week,we got an exciting new look at the sandworm, but this time we get to see more of the people who reside on the desert planet Arrakis. See the newDuneimages below.
Dune Images
The latest batch of newDuneimages tease some of the action of the film, withJason Momoa’s warrior Duncan Idaho fighting off several goons, whileOscar IsaacandJosh Brolin’s Duke Leto and master-at-arms Gurney Halleck, respectively, look imposing in their Atreides battle armour. But most exciting is seeing protagonistTimothée Chalametjump into action as Paul Atreides, who begins his desert odyssey with the help ofZendaya’s mysterious Fremen tribeswoman Chani, who has glowing blue eyes.
Debuted byEmpirein their recentDuneissue, the images give us a sense of the epic scale of Villeneuve’s film, in contrast to thefirst imagesthat were a little more on the subdued side. The interview with Chalamet, who makes a major pivot from arthouse dramas likeCall Me By Your NameandLittle Women, also teases some of the more action-packed parts of the film, with the actor describing a sequence they shot at Wadi Rum, a desert valley in Jordan.
“That part of the Wadi Rum is so awe-inspiring, you might as well be getting chased by that cliff in the background,” Chalamet described. “It wasn’t a green-screen or anything. That’s one of the most thrilling parts of the book and the movie. We had the sketches. That was a lesson for me. On aCall Me By Your NameorBeautiful Boyit can be counterintuitive to see the storyboards because then maybe you limit yourself based on a camera angle or whatever. It’s the opposite [here] because, for a sequence with the sandworm chasing you, I could never imagine that.”
Also starring inDune’sridiculously good-looking cast areRebecca Fergusonas Paul’s mother Jessica,Stellan Skarsgardas Baron Harkonnen,Javier Bardemas Stilgar,Sharon Duncan-Brewsteras Liet-Kynes,Charlotte Ramplingas Reverend Mother Mohiam,David Dastmcalchianas Piter De Vries,Chang Chenas Dr. Yueh, andDave Bautistaas the Baron’s nephew Rabban.
Dunearrives in theaters onDecember 18,2020.
