Dune: Part Three final trailer casts Paul Atreides as a genocidal emperor, in theaters December 18, 2026
- Warner Bros. released the final full trailer for Dune: Part Three, which arrives in theaters on December 18, 2026.
- The film adapts Frank Herbert's Dune: Messiah and is set nearly two decades after Paul Atreides seized control of the Imperium; the trailer shows him as a ruthless emperor who has amassed enemies including his former lover Chani, played by Zendaya.
- Denis Villeneuve told Empire the film is a sophisticated epilogue to the diptych of the first two movies, and Timothée Chalamet called it a standalone movie that is its own beast.
- The official synopsis has Paul facing visions of Imperial collapse and the reappearance of his long-lost love, drawn into a conspiracy with Chani at the heart of its unfolding mystery as rebellion brews.
- The trailer presents Paul, aka Muad'Dib, as bald and fully villainous, with the article arguing he was the villain all along rather than the hero readers of the first novel expected.