Dune Part Three Trailer Reveals the Weight Paul Atreides Carries After Victory

Crowds flocked to the AMC Century City theater in Los Angeles this morning for a special IMAX event featuring the first look at the concluding chapter in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” saga. Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Javier Bardem, and Anya Taylor-Joy came out to meet the fans in person, while Timothée Chalamet sent in a video greeting via his phone. The energy in the room altered suddenly, as this plot picks up 17 years after the previous film finished and revolves around what happens when someone gains too much power.

The footage starts with Paul and Chani having a private conversation about what they could name their future child. Ghanima for a girl and Leto for a male, but even it felt tight, a result of how they’d begun to drift apart in the last film. Within seconds, the screen was filled with broader pictures of Paul and Stilgar exploring the cosmos on new planets, as their reach for the Atreides empire grew rapidly. Large sights of fleets of ships slicing across alien sky, as well as soldiers moving across rocky terrain far from Arrakis.

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Chani showed up shortly, this time fighting her way through a violent battle scene. A sandworm can be spotted in the midst of it all, balancing on its back before diving into the melee. Just as Chani was in the middle of it, Alia, now all grown up and played by Anya Taylor-Joy, stepped into several critical frames of her own.

Paul himself provides some of the low, echoing vocals that run under the music throughout, while Robert Pattinson appears as Scytale, the shape-shifter who is as slick as ever and whose loyalties are impossible to read. Jason Momoa has also returned, and Duncan Idaho was seen briefly. Returning cast members include Rebecca Ferguson (Lady Jessica), Florence Pugh (Princess Irulan), and Javier Bardem (Stilgar), who join an already impressive group.

Villeneuve described this installment as a fast-paced thriller centered on action and pressure. Note how, even in the midst of all that upheaval, Paul and Chani’s link remains strong, as he describes it as a steady pulse that runs through everything, with a focus primarily on the two of them. He also emphasizes how the large jump in time allows Alia to become much more vital to the tale, which the previous films just hinted at. Also, it appears that Hans Zimmer has returned to the soundtrack. Fans who left the theater today are already counting down the days until December 18, 2026, when the film is released.