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First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a portentous set of twin babies in the new trailer for Dune: Part Three.
Warner Bros. has debuted its first full trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s third Dune film. Thankfully, it doesn’t give everything about the film away, but it does put a spotlight on a few of the key characters who will bring this chapter of Paul Atreides’ (Timothée Chalamet) story to an end. Set a few years after the events of Part Two, Dune: Part Three finds Paul and Chani (Zendaya) eagerly anticipating the birth of their first child.
Though the couple don’t seem to know that they’re about to have twins in the trailer, they’re both keenly aware how much danger Paul is in as he leads a war to bring the entire universe under his control. It’s clear that Tleilaxu Face Dancer Scytale (Robert Pattinson) is a threat Paul needs to be keeping watch for. But what’s less obvious is how Paul’s sister Alia (Anya Taylor-Joy) and a resurrected Duncan Idaho (Jason Momoa) might complicate the messiah’s claim to power.
The trailer makes Part Three look like it’s going to be another banger when it hits theaters on December 18th, and the question now is what kind of unhinged popcorn buckets people are going to be shoving their hands into as they watch.