Dune: Part Two

Dune: Part Two Movie Details:

Dune: Part Two Movie Cast & Characters:

• Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, the exiled Duke of House Atreides, who is called “Muad’Dib” by the Fremen
• Zendaya as Chani, a young Fremen warrior and Paul’s love interest
• Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica, Paul’s Bene Gesserit mother and concubine to Paul’s late father and predecessor, Leto Atreides
• Josh Brolin as Gurney Halleck, the former weapons master of House Atreides and Paul’s mentor
• Austin Butler as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, Baron Harkonnen’s youngest nephew and planned successor of House Harkonnen
• Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan, the Emperor’s daughter
• Dave Bautista as Glossu Rabban, the brutish nephew of Baron Harkonnen and older brother of Feyd-Rautha
• Christopher Walken as Shaddam IV, the Padishah Emperor of the Known Universe and head of House Corrino
• Stephen McKinley Henderson as Thufir Hawat, a Mentat loyal to House Atreides who is forced to serve House Harkonnen
• Léa Seydoux as Lady Margot, a Bene Gesserit and close friend of the Emperor
• Souheila Yacoub as Shishakli, a Fremen warrior
• Stellan Skarsgård as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, head of House Harkonnen, Feyd-Rautha’s uncle, sworn enemy to Atreides and former steward of Arrakis
• Charlotte Rampling as Gaius Helen Mohiam, a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother and the Emperor’s Truthsayer
• Javier Bardem as Stilgar, leader of the Fremen tribe at Sietch Tabr
• Tim Blake Nelson (undisclosed role).

Storyline:

“Dune: Part Two” explores the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.—Warner Bros. Pictures

Dune: Part Two Movie Review:

Rotten Tomatoes – 93% of 333 critics
Metacritic – 79 out of 100, based on 61 critics
CinemaScore – “A” on an A+ to F scale
PostTrak – 94%
IMDb – 9.0/10 by 101K users

About Dune: Part Two Movie:

Dune: Part Two is an American epic science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts. The sequel to Dune (2021), it is the second of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert, and follows Paul Atreides as he unites with the Fremen people of the desert planet Arrakis to wage war against House Harkonnen.

Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem reprising their roles from the first film, with Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken, and Léa Seydoux joining the ensemble cast.

Development began after Legendary Entertainment acquired film and television rights for Dune in 2016. Villeneuve signed on as director for the film in 2017, intending to make a two-part adaptation of the novel due to its complexity.

Production contracts were only secured for the first film, with the second film having to be green-lit based on the first’s success. Though Villeneuve was concerned about the sequel’s certainty after the first film had a simultaneous theatrical and HBO Max release, Warner Bros. Pictures assured him the sequel would happen if it performed well on HBO Max.

After the critical and commercial success of the first film, Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment green-lit the film in October 2021. New cast members including Pugh, Butler, Walken, Seydoux, and Yacoub were announced in 2022, followed by Tim Blake Nelson a year later. Principal photography took place in Budapest, Italy, Jordan, and Abu Dhabi between July and December 2022.

A teaser trailer for Dune: Part II was presented on the Warner Bros. panel at CinemaCon on April 27, 2023. First-look footage of the cast in character was released online, alongside a teaser poster, on May 2, 2023. The trailer was released to the public the following day. A second trailer was released on June 29, 2023.

Dune: Part Two had its world premiere at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City on February 6, 2024, and was released internationally on February 28, 2024, and in the United States on March 1, 2024, by Warner Bros. Pictures.