News Dune: Part Three First Dune: Part Three Teaser is All Spectacle and Blond Robert Pattinson It’s really hard to be emperor, guys By Molly Templeton | Published on March 17, 2026 Screenshot: Warner Bros. Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Warner Bros. The first teaser for Dune 3—which should be called Dune Messiah, but how could we possibly keep track of the order without numbers—believes only in the whisper and the scream. “Your father never started a war,” Rebecca Ferguson whispers in what is apparently her single scene in the film. What starts quietly becomes all aggressive when the chanting kicks in… and never ends. Stop yelling at me, Dune 3! (Yes, Hans Zimmer is back to do the score.) But then, one can’t help but think that this trailer is coming out now for two rather cynical reasons. One: Timothée Chalamet’s latest Oscar campaign ended on Sunday night. Two: Timothée Chalamet recently said that very foolish thing about opera and ballet, and people are rightfully quite cranky with him. (A highlight of the Oscars was watching Misty Copeland dance right in front of him.) Hence: A Dune trailer to put him back in our good graces! Will it work? Hard to say. This trailer is all vibes, as first looks so often are. Paul (Chalamet) and Chani (Zendaya) talk about what they’ll name their kid. Duncan Idaho (Jason Momoa) does a cool move. Robert Pattinson, extremely blond, lurks, creepily. He lightly gives off the aura of Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner, and no, I can’t exactly explain why. Princess Irulan (Florence Pugh) stalks about. There is, naturally, quite a lot of sand. Javier Bardem returns as Fremen leader Stilgar; Anya Taylor-Joy also does a bit of stalking about as Paul’s little sister Alia. The trailer premiered in Los Angeles, with director Denis Villeneuve and some of the stars present. Villeneuve said, “It’s a very different movie than the first ones,” continuing, “If the first movie was contemplation, a boy exploring a new world, and the second one is a war movie, this one is a thriller. It is action-packed and tense. More muscular.” Taylor-Joy said of Alia, who is really a lot of a character, “She carries the weight and the wisdom of generations and generations in her head. She’s never in a singular conversation. It’s kind of everything everywhere, all at once. And the one thing that she really feels most strongly about is her love and devotion to her brother, because that is the only person who’s ever made her feel like she makes sense.” Most of Villeneuve’s collaborators have returned for the third Dune film, including composer Zimmer, costume designer Jacqueline West, production designer Patrice Vermette, and editor Joe Walker. For this one, though, Brian K. Vaughan joins Villeneuve as writer, and the film has a new cinematographer in Linus Sandgren, who won an Oscar for his work on La La Land. Much of the movie was shot on 65mm film, but some on IMAX. “I kept the desert in digital because I like the brutality,” said Villeneuve. Dune 3 will sandblast into theaters on December 18th.[end-mark] The post First <i>Dune: Part Three</i> Teaser is All Spectacle and Blond Robert Pattinson appeared first on Reactor.