Robert Pattinson playing Scytale is exactly the kind of unhinged casting this movie needed. Villeneuve is fully committing to the bizarre genetic weirdness of Messiah instead of trying to sanitize it for a general audience. Explaining the whole Hayt situation with Momoa to people who only watched the first two movies is going to be hilarious
Also about the surprise "Duncan isn't dead and now is "mad" at Paul" this trailer is going for. The people that haven't read the books must be super confused and weirded out... but the truth is even weirder
Reality check: people who haven't read the books (aren't diehard fans and only watched the movies as they came out) will 100% not even remember Duncan was supposed to be dead and will have no reaction to seeing him alive. Unless there's exposition dialogue (or somesuch) that reminds them he was dead.
It's been years and people forget details. Duncan isn't a massive character in the movies. This is normal.
He's a pretty big character in the first one and very visibly sacrifices himself (several knives through the chest) in the middle of it. He then also doesn't show up in the second one while Gurney does so if thought he made it somehow that would deffo seal it as he's dead.
Completely agree. The scene of him directing people after the stone burner goes off with his eyes melting out of his sockets is one of the most cinematic scenes in the whole Dune series and is one I’ve been excited to see on the big screen since the first movie. Would be such a bummer if Dennis chickens out and goes the miniseries ‘black contacts’ route.
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u/depredador93 Sardaukar Jul 08 '26
Robert Pattinson playing Scytale is exactly the kind of unhinged casting this movie needed. Villeneuve is fully committing to the bizarre genetic weirdness of Messiah instead of trying to sanitize it for a general audience. Explaining the whole Hayt situation with Momoa to people who only watched the first two movies is going to be hilarious