Dune Part Three Trailer Reveals 17 Year Time Jump and Robert Pattinson's Scytale
- Denis Villeneuve debuted the first trailer for Dune: Part Three at an AMC event in Los Angeles the Monday after the Oscars, with Zendaya, Javier Bardem, Anya Taylor-Joy and Robert Pattinson attending in person and Timothée Chalamet appearing via video message.
- The film jumps 17 years after the events of Part Two and is based on Frank Herbert's Dune: Messiah, showing Paul Atreides as Emperor waging a holy war after marrying Princess Irulan (Florence Pugh), which drives Chani (Zendaya) away.
- Robert Pattinson debuts as the shape-shifting villain Scytale, shown only in a brief glimpse with blonde hair and no dialogue revealed yet.
- Villeneuve said he changed his mind about taking a break from the franchise after seeing 14,000 people outside and 5,000 people inside a Part Two screening in Mexico, prompting him to feel a responsibility to finish the story.
- The teaser includes a scene where Paul and Chani name their unborn children Ghanima and Leto, foreshadowing key Dune Messiah plot points, and ends with a buzzed-haircut Paul saying "I'm not afraid to die, but I must not die yet."