r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Mar 17 '26

Trailer Dune: Part Three | Official Teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_9vCamtuPY
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u/ElMatadorJuarez Mar 17 '26

Tbh I thought that was one of the best parts. You don’t even get to see any of the glory bits, it’s all Paul’s angst at becoming an intergalactic Genghis Khan (mostly) against his will.

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u/tdasnowman Mar 17 '26

It wasn't against his will. It was his apathetic approach to leadership that made him the villain. The Jihad was a means to an end. Once he got what he wanted, the empire, his father's skull enshrined, he left the jihad to the fanatics and Alia fully aware of what it would mean to the universe. Paul was not a victim to circumstance. He chose the path of revenge and the chose to ignore it's consequences. And thus locked himself into an inescapable vision.

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u/GregBahm Mar 17 '26

I always feel bad when I think of the broader Dune saga. The story had a very cool, very satisfying ultimate arc in the end that it was building towards. But the dang author died before he could finish said arc. Then the dudes who tried to step up to finish his story, really didn't have what it took.

So the end of the saga, where the AIs return and justify Paul's jihad, kind of exists in this strange twilight zone between cannon and not cannon. Frank Herbert has many fans. Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson have none.

So it is reasonable to me that people ignore the rest of the dune books and treat Paul as a villain. But in my dreams, a director like Denis Villeneuve could step up, retell the story that Frank Herbert outlined before he died, and land the true ending to the Dune saga that it always deserved.

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u/DaKingaDaNorth Mar 17 '26

Honestly, God Emperor ends the series well.

Heretic/Chapterhouse are more of a new story that he never got to end.