Warner Bros. drops Dune: Part Three trailer; Chalamet says Villeneuve took 'creative liberty' on Paul's arc
- Warner Bros. released a new Dune: Part Three trailer on July 8, 2026, with director Denis Villeneuve and star Timothée Chalamet answering fan questions from the AMC Burbank 16 theater in Burbank, Calif.
- The film is set 20 years after Part Two: Paul Atreides has married Princess Irulen (Florence Pugh) for peace, but peace has not come, and Duncan Idaho (Jason Momoa) considers Emperor Atreides beyond redemption.
- Chalamet says Paul's journey is where Villeneuve took the most creative liberty, weaving in storylines that were not explicit in Frank Herbert's Dune Messiah, which he said ties the story together.
- Villeneuve calls Part Three "a very different beast," more of a thriller than his two-part adaptation of the original novel, and more intense and emotional, with a second unit he named the Psychedelic Unit shooting experimental images.
- Robert Pattinson joins as Scytale and Anya Taylor-Joy plays Paul's sister Alia; the opening scene, a 70mm IMAX battle led by Stilgar, shows before IMAX screenings of The Odyssey next week, and the film opens December 18.