If there’s one thing other than filmmaking that Denis Villeneuve knows when it comes to Frank Herbert’s “Dune-iverse,” it’s reboots. People tend to abhor remakes for some pretty valid and not-so-valid reasons and it pleases me to see his work adapting Frank Herbert’s novels years after David Lynch’s iteration bore nothing short of fruit in 2021, coupled with Warner Bros. commitement to a the sequel we now have in the March 1 release, Dune: Part Two.
Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin and Rebecca Ferguson headline the upcoming sequel that sees the former reprise his role as the burdened, beleagured and albeit destined leader of the Fremen resistance against the Harkonnen empire on Arrakis, the spice-enriched planet that stands at the center of all the upheaval. The film also sees Dave Bautista, Oscar Isaac and Stellan Skarsgård reprising their roles in the line-up of returning and new cast members, which also has Florence Pugh, Austin Butler and Christopher Walken to name a few.
The film is also reportedly eleven minutes longer than the first one so, do with that what you will, and endulge in the newest official trailer now running online!
