All posts tagged: Dune

Javier Bardem Took on Max Cady in New Cape Fear While Shooting Dune 3

Javier Bardem Took on Max Cady in New Cape Fear While Shooting Dune 3

Published by Daniella Wilson

There’s a new Max Cady in town. The iconic villain, portrayed by Robert Mitchum in 1962’s Cape Fear and by Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s 1991 version, is back on screen in the new Apple TV adaptation. The 10-episode series sees Javier Bardem stepping into the role of convict Max Cady, who is released from prison after 17 years and out for revenge on the happily married attorneys (Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson) who put him behind bars. At the show’s Los Angeles premiere on Tuesday, Bardem admitted that he “would not have dared to touch” the role — which landed De Niro an Oscar nomination — if it was another straight remake, but was drawn in by the appeal of a new interpretation explored over 10 hours instead of two. The star said he didn’t speak to De Niro while working on the project (teasing, “I talked to him in my mind like, ‘Please forgive me!’”) and is not one to stay in the killer’s mindset off camera, musing “What’s the point? I …

Street Fighter 2026 movie first-look trailer sees Dune star in key role

Street Fighter 2026 movie first-look trailer sees Dune star in key role

Published by Daniella Wilson

The first trailer has been unveiled for upcoming video game adaptation Street Fighter – giving fans a glimpse of the film’s eclectic cast including Game of Thrones and Dune star Jason Momoa as popular character Blanka. The ensemble for the film also includes To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and The Recruit star Noah Centineo, British actor and martial artist Andrew Koji, and rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson among many others, and all of them can be seen in the new teaser. “I got good news y’all,” a voice is heard saying towards the beginning of the trailer. “Gathered here are the world’s best fighters. But only one of which will be crowned the world champion of street fighter.” Throughout, the teaser includes all sorts of high-octane fight scenes, bright, neon colours and early ’90s indicators – with director Kitao Sakurai certainly going for a highly stylised approach in keeping with the aesthetic of the games. The official synopsis for the film reads: “Set in 1993, estranged Street Fighters Ryu (Koji) and Ken Masters …

New Footage With Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya Revealed

New Footage With Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya Revealed

Published by Daniella Wilson

Dune: Part Three opens with no shortage of firepower, as the CinemaCon crowd learned Tuesday. Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa and director Denis Villeneuve took the stage at the Las Vegas event to discuss the sequel. They then unveiled the first seven minutes from the highly anticipated film during Warner Bros.‘ presentation. The footage featured Javier Bardem as Stilgar as he led his troops against a seemingly insurmountable enemy. The intense battle scenes featured an endless array of shots fired and plenty of actual fire. After those seven minutes, additional footage included Chalamet’s Paul Atreides confronting Zendaya’s Chani in a tense moment. “You’ve conquered the galaxy,” Momoa tells Chalamet in the new footage. “You’ve destroyed thousands of worlds.” This leads Chalamet to ask, “What are your thoughts on that?” to which Momoa replies, “I think you’re way beyond redemption.” Later, Zendaya asks Chalamet, “How does it feel to be human like everyone else, Paul Atreides?” In introducing the scenes, Villeneuve called the film a thriller and teased, “It’s more intense and definitely more emotional.” Chalamet …

Steven Spielberg Shares His Love For Dune, Frankenstein, and Weapons

Steven Spielberg Shares His Love For Dune, Frankenstein, and Weapons

Published by Sam Flores

It’s no secret that Steven Spielberg has an affinity for the movies of the Dune trilogy, which “are among my favorite science-fiction movies, not just recently, but of all time. Especially the second film,” he tells Empire in a new interview published April 5. The auteur filmmaker also shared his enthusiasm at the prospect of discovering the third installment, due on December 18, starring returning cast members like Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet alongside new additions including Robert Pattinson. “I think [Part Two] is the best movie Denis has ever made. I cannot wait to see the third one. I’m sure he’ll show it to me early. I’m such a fan of his,” Spielberg added. That would be Denis Villeneuve, whose Dune films are based on the bestsellers by Frank Herbert. “I love the [Dune] books, and I just think his tribute to the books is like Guillermo [del Toro]’s tribute to Mary Shelley with Frankenstein: he honoured Mary Shelley as I think Denis honoured Frank Herbert,” said Spielberg. Not for the first time, the director …

Will there be more Dune spin-offs? HBO boss speaks on franchise future

Will there be more Dune spin-offs? HBO boss speaks on franchise future

Published by Daniella Wilson

HBO boss Casey Bloys has addressed the future of the Dune TV universe, suggesting that while more spin-offs are possible, the network is taking a careful, quality-first approach. Dune: Prophecy, a prequel to the Denis Villeneuve films Dune and Dune: Part Two, premiered on HBO in November 2024, with a second season now in the works. Fans have already begun speculating about what other stories from the franchise could make it to screen, but Bloys (chairman and CEO of HBO and Max Content) made clear that nothing is being rushed into production. “I think with all of these properties, you could see… I mean, putting aside that there are various constraints about what you can and can’t do, show-by-show… but I think with any show, you can imagine various prequels, sequels, whatever,” he told Radio Times. “But even with that, I go back to… I look at it script-by-script. You know, just because something is big IP in terms of viewership or fan base, nothing guarantees that people are going to tune in… well, maybe …

The biggest ways Dune Part 3 differs from the book — for better and worse

The biggest ways Dune Part 3 differs from the book — for better and worse

Published by skeptic

The trailer for Dune: Part Three, director Denis Villeneuve’s epic climax to his sci-fi movie trilogy, has dropped, and the next movie looks just as spectacular as the first two. Maybe Dune: Part Three will finally net Villeneuve and his collaborators some of the Oscar gold that eluded them with Parts One and Two. These movies are based on the Dune novels by Frank Herbert. The first two movies covered 1965’s Dune, and followed Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) as he transformed from the scion of a noble house into the leader of the desert-dwelling Fremen people on the planet of Arrakis. Dune: Part Three will adapt 1969’s Dune Messiah, which takes place several years into Paul’s reign as the Emperor of the Known Universe. Whenever a book gets adapted for the screen, some things are going to change. Dune: Part Three is no exception, but are the changes for better or worse? Dune: Part Three is “action-packed” and “a thriller” Dune: Messiah is one of the quieter books in the franchise Speaking to press at …

What happens in the second Dune novel Dune Messiah? Book spoilers explained

What happens in the second Dune novel Dune Messiah? Book spoilers explained

Published by Daniella Wilson

Frank Herbert’s epic series of Dune books is set to increase once again as we await Dune: Part Three. This film – which now has a trailer – continues on from the second film from director Denis Villeneuve which adapted the final portion of the original 1965 novel Dune and details what happens once Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and his mother, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), join up with the Fremen, including the young woman he has long dreamt about, Chani (Zendaya). Together, the Atreides – through some unsettling religious manipulation – lead the Fremen in a crusade against the Harkonnens and the Imperium – resulting in one cataclysmic ending. However, the story of the novel Dune does not end there, with this third and final film from Villeneuve adapting the second novel from Frank Herbert in the series, the unique 1968 sequel novel Dune Messiah. Want to see this content? This page contains content provided by YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as YouTube may use cookies and other technologies. To …

‘Dune’ tried to warn us against AI

‘Dune’ tried to warn us against AI

Published by Jenni Sidey

Even the biggest fans of Dune know that Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi epic quickly veers into the fantastical. Giant subterranean sandworms measuring 1,500 feet long; a narcotic that fuels interstellar travel and bends a user’s perception of space-time; a mystical cabal of eugenicist witches—the list goes on. But there is at least one story within the sprawling series that feels increasingly like a premonition rather than plot point: the Butlerian Jihad. Taking place well before the events of Dune itself, the Butlerian Jihad was a nearly century-long, interplanetary revolt that saw humanity racing to destroy all of its advanced computers, artificial intelligence systems, and other “thinking machines.” The underlying cause wasn’t that sentient robots were attempting to eradicate humans, however. Instead, our species’ overreliance on the programs had generated an upper ruling class of technocrats that soon presided over all aspects of society. It wasn’t so much that humanity was afraid of AI, as much as they were afraid of the people who designed and controlled the AI. The Butlerian Jihad ultimately resulted in the …

Your ‘Dune: Part Three’ Trailer Questions, Answered

Your ‘Dune: Part Three’ Trailer Questions, Answered

Published by Jenni Sidey

Anya Taylor-Joy’s character was the subject of the other major change in Dune: Part Two. In the novel, Paul’s younger sister Alia is born four years before Paul takes back the desert planet from the book’s main villains, the Harkonnens. Villeneuve opted to hold Alia back, though, showing her only in one brief spice-induced hallucination. This wasn’t a bad call—Alia is a weird one. Alia Atreides is what is known in Dune canon as “pre-born.” Her mom (Lady Jessica) took the Water of Life (the spice-based drug that gave Paul his powers) while she was pregnant, which in turn gave her daughter Bene Gesserit powers in utero. This means that, like the other space nuns, Alia has access to “ancestral memories”—the ability to know everything her foremothers knew. In other words, Alia is born a freaky baby with a full adult personality and hundreds of years of experience. David Lynch really went to town with this idea in his 1984 Dune adaptation, but apparently a talking toddler was just too distracting for Villeneuve’s vision. That …

Dune: Part Three trailer reveals Robert Pattinson’s unrecognizable look as new villain

Dune: Part Three trailer reveals Robert Pattinson’s unrecognizable look as new villain

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Dune: Part Three has released its first trailer, offering a look at Robert Pattinson’s eerie new villain. Out this December, the final film in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune trilogy introduces the Twilight star, 39, as the shapeshifting villain Scytale. In Frank Herbert’s books, Scytale is a Tleilaxu Face Dancer — a genetically engineered shapeshifter and master manipulator who plays a central role in a conspiracy to overthrow Emperor Paul Atreides (played by Timothée Chalamet). The forthcoming movie also sees the return of Zendaya (Chani), Javier Bardem (Stilgar), Rebecca Ferguson (Lady Jessica), Florence Pugh (Irulan), Anya Taylor-Joy (Alia Atreides ) and Isaach De Bankolé (Farok). In the trailer, as Paul tells Lady Jessica, “War feeds on itself. The more I fight, the more enemies fight back,” Pattinson’s Scytale appears with a bleached-blond buzz cut and shaved eyebrows. “I’m doing the best I can …