Dune: Part Three's New Trailer Just Dropped, and It's amazing.

 



 I watched it three times before I even started writing this.


Denis Villeneuve and Timothée Chalamet just unveiled a fresh, longer trailer for Dune: Part Three at an Imax global fan event in Los Angeles, simulcast across Chicago, Dallas, Toronto, Montreal, London, Berlin, Mexico City, and Abu Dhabi (Variety) . This isn't the teaser from back in March. This is the real thing, and it's brutal in the best way.

Where we're at

The story picks up 17 years after Part Two, with Paul Atreides now sitting on the throne, dealing with everything that comes with being emperor (Variety) . And Chani is not okay with it. In the trailer, she confronts him for breaking a promise, that he'd never take power in his own name (Deadline) . That line hit different knowing where these two started..
 

Jason Momoa's Duncan Idaho doesn't hold back either. He points out that Paul's "Lisan al-Gaib" persona has conquered the galaxy and left thousands of worlds destroyed in the process,  and when Paul asks him directly what he thinks of that, Idaho tells him he's beyond redemption. That's not a hero's trailer. That's a warning shot.

There's also a tense exchange between Florence Pugh's Princess Irulan and Robert Pattinson's Scytale, where the two discuss a plan for regime change, which Irulan realizes actually means assassinating Paul, and she doesn't hide her fury at him for it (Deadline) . And then there's Anya Taylor-Joy's Alia, a quick, unsettling shot of her covered in blood and screaming , plus a glimpse of Paul and Chani's twins.

Why it feels different.

Chalamet talked about this at the Q&A afterward, and it stuck with me, he said Herbert wrote Dune Messiah specifically as a corrective, because people mistook Paul for a straightforward hero, and Herbert wanted to warn people about blindly following charismatic leaders (Variety) . You can feel that in every frame. This isn't spectacle for spectacle's sake. It's Paul unraveling under the weight of what he built.

Villeneuve and Chalamet also reflected on the decade this trilogy has taken. Chalamet said he'd tell his younger self to savor the experience, and Villeneuve called working with the cast "the privilege of my life." (Variety) That's a wrap-up moment if I've ever heard one.
   

The details


Directed by Denis Villeneuve, co-written with Brian K. Vaughan, based on Frank Herbert's 1969 novel Dune Messiah.

Cast: Chalamet, Zendaya, Momoa, Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Robert Pattinson, Javier Bardem, and more

Shot primarily on 65mm film, with select IMAX 15/70mm sequences (Wikipedia)

In theaters December 18, 2026.... the same day as Avengers: Doomsday, which is why everyone's already calling it "Dunesday"

If you haven't seen the trailer yet, stop reading this and go watch it. Then come back and tell me if you're Team Chani too.

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