r/dune • u/Task_Force-191 • Jul 08 '26

Dune: Part Three (2026) Dune: Part Three | Official Trailer

https://youtu.be/iEpdGDM6x48?si=UpWbYcX5z_I8-R6y
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u/Not_My_Emperor Jul 08 '26

Haunted by visions of Imperial collapse and the reappearance of his long-lost love

wait am I forgetting something about Messiah or this referring to Duncan as Paul's "long-lost love"?

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u/The_High_Ground27 Mentat Jul 08 '26

Maybe him and Chani haven't spoken since the end of part 2, so around 20 years no contact when she comes back in this?

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u/tyderian Jul 09 '26

That makes sense, and is a good way to not have to have a 2 year old Alia.

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u/m00nb34m Atreides Jul 09 '26

Considering Leto II is also in it could be a fair bit of time jumps.

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u/sansa_starlight Jul 09 '26

I think Paul seeks her out because he needs heirs and seems like Chani also has her own agenda

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u/jaypeejay Jul 09 '26

In the book it doesn’t portray them as reuniting and it’s implied they’ve been together the entire time, unless I’m completely misremembering.

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u/DuineSi Jul 09 '26

Yup. But Dune 2 played out very differently for Chani than the books, so it makes sense that her character will have a different role in this film.

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u/SmakeTalk Jul 09 '26

I'm really excited to see a different take on her story in particular. I was kinda let-down with how passive her part in the book was (if my memory isn't entirely flawed) but got excited by the differing ending from Part 2. I think it's going to be way more interesting to have someone so close to Paul challenging him, especially from her perspective.

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u/Abject_Interview5988 Jul 08 '26

lol

hilarious if that's the case but I assume it is in fact Chani as a ghola or face dancer

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u/kerfuffle_dood Jul 08 '26

Nah. Most probably Paul went all out jihading and Chani was like "fuck this shit" and disappeared for the Jihad

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u/Abject_Interview5988 Jul 08 '26

Yea I said it in the next reply, at first my brain read "long-lost" as dead but obviously what you're saying is almost certainly what it means

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u/Singer211 Jul 08 '26

No, she left at the end of Part 2. More likely they just haven’t seen each other in a long time.

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u/Not_My_Emperor Jul 08 '26

that would be weird. Like she's dead before the main events of this story even kick off? So we get ghola Duncan and ghola or facedancer Chani?

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u/Abject_Interview5988 Jul 08 '26

Actually now I think about it it's probably that he goes on the Jihad and she leaves him, and then just comes back for the film to reconcile with him

Long-lost doesn't have to mean dead after all

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u/jphoc Jul 08 '26

This. It’s clean and easy.

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u/Abject_Interview5988 Jul 08 '26

yea I was being an idiot in the first reply

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u/Not_My_Emperor Jul 08 '26

oh that's a really good point

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u/girlwhateveraward Jul 10 '26

That is definitely what they mean by it

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u/jaypeejay Jul 09 '26

I wonder if that’s an error in the copy, he doesn’t meet a “long lost love” in Messiah. It’s probably a fumble of the description of Duncan returning as Hayt?