It will be his job to remove Chalamet's young hero from Dune's chessboard entirely. Princess Irulan wonders if the missing Paul Atreides might still be alive on Arrakis-a moment followed immediately by the first reveal of Butler's Harkonnen assassin. “But I would love to keep a bit of things for later.” “I'm grateful that we are keeping a bit of things in the shadow, but it was very exciting for me and my team to have a chance to work with someone as iconic as Christopher Walken,” Villeneuve says. Villeneuve has not yet even hinted at Walken's appearance. Chani has no concept of such things.Įmperor Shaddam IV has now replaced Butler's Feyd-Rautha as Dune: Part Two's big mystery. He tells her about his home world, one with oceans, seas and rivers-where water isn't harvested by the drop, but can be plunged into for swimming.

The trailer begins in a much warmer place, as Timothée Chalamet's exiled prince Paul Atreides and Zendaya's Chani, a young leader of the Fremen tribe, look out at the vast, barren landscape of Arrakis. “Austin Butler brought to the screen something that would be a cross between a psychotic, sociopath serial killer and Mick Jagger,' Villeneuve told V.F. He’s not just staring coldly from his lowered brow, but lashing out, releasing unbridled rage against the forces trying to rise up against the Harkonnens-the family of warlords he is poised to lead as their next heir.

Now the new Dune: Part Two trailer provides a full-on look at the actor in all his dehumanized glory. Then a tease of the new trailer showed a partial glimpse of his glowering face.

At first, the Elvis star was shown only in silhouette-backlit to reveal his sleek figure, shaved head and twin blades. Austin Butler's full appearance in Dune: Part Two as the remorseless warlord Feyd-Rautha has been teased by writer-director Denis Villeneuve ever since Vanity Fair's exclusive first look at the saga's upcoming conclusion.

The Great Dune Trilogy by Frank Herbert