Robert Pattinson is reportedly being eyed for a serious function in Denis Villeneuve‘s Dune: Messiah – discover out extra beneath.
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In keeping with a Deadline report, Villeneuve is engaged on the ending touches for his Dune: Messiah script, and is supposedly eager on enlisting Pattinson for a key function in his third Dune movie.
Whereas Deadline‘s sources have famous that no official affords have been made to Pattinson simply but – Legendary has declined to touch upon the matter – the actor is at the moment being favoured for the function of the villainous Scytale.
Ought to Robert Pattinson be added to Dune’s all-star forged, he’ll star alongside Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Florence Pugh, Josh Brolin, Anya Taylor-Pleasure and extra.
Dune: Messiah has but to obtain a launch date, however is reportedly resulting from start filming this summer time. Messiah will see Villeneuve adapt Frank Herber’s second Dune novel of the identical identify. It’ll additionally seemingly mark Villeneuve’s ultimate Dune movie.
Within the e-book Dune: Messiah, Paul Atreides (Chalamet) has been firmly established because the chief for the Fremen, often called Muad’Dib, for some years. As his energy grows, he struggles to regulate the ferver of the non secular beliefs behind his reign, in addition to threats from exterior figures.
In a four-star overview of the second movie, NME wrote: “As with the primary film, Half Two proves a pulse-poundingly immersive expertise, courtesy of cinematographer Greig Fraser’s beautiful visuals, manufacturing designer Patrice Vermette’s wildly imaginative units and a few impressed sound design work. That is significantly evident in the course of the movie’s thrilling central set piece, when Paul has to show himself by driving an enormous sandworm, a punch-the-air second that was teased within the first half and pays off splendidly right here.”
Lately, Chalamet spoke in regards to the similarities between his efficiency as Bob Dylan in A Full Unknown and the political message of Dune, saying each movies warn to “be cautious of cult-like figures”.