Timothée Chalamet announces “the most sinister” Dune to conclude the trilogy

The Marty Suprême actor teases the end of Denis Villeneuve’s SF saga.

Timothée Chalamet will soon turn the page Marty Supremenow released around the world, following the Oscars ceremony, which will take place on the night of Sunday March 15 to Monday March 16. He can therefore start to focus on his next big deadline of 2026, the release of Dune part 3the conclusion of the trilogy adapted from the novels of Frank Herbert, which will face Avengers: Doomsday at the end of the year (December 16 in France).

During an event organized by CNN and Variety, the Franco-American actor spoke with Matthew McConaughey about this highly anticipated film, which will mark his farewell with Paul Atréides. A character whose evolution he teases, rather dark and megalomaniac:

“I think what you see at the end of the second film or during the third is you in InterstellarHeath Ledger in the Dark Knight and Marlon Brando in AApocalypse Now. That kind of thing. Wait two seconds, let me say it another way. I can’t put myself in that category. Let’s just say it’s one of those big movies where you can slip something in. Taking people by surprise.”

Just read THE Messiah of Dunethe second book by Frank Herbert (the first was adapted for the cinema by Denis Villeneuve on A part And Dune part 2), to know the trajectory of the young “hero” in Dune part 3. But the idea is of course not to spoil the story for future viewers. During his discussion with McConaughey, who played his father in InterstellarChalamet explains the influence of one of his other cinema dads, Oscar Isaac, the Leto Atreides of the first film.

“He approached it in a Shakespearean way, he played it with intensity without worrying about this intensity“, explains the 30-year-old star. And watching him do it encouraged him to “be even more free“. On the first Dune, Chalamet felt “baffled by futurism“:

“I was coming out of My Beautiful Boy And Call Me by Your Namemuch more naturalistic films, and it was a huge film so I felt intimidated. But especially on the third film, all the amazing stuff you’ll see on screen comes from my freedom of movement and my freedom of choice. And with Denis, we really found a good rhythm. This is the most sinister film. It’s a big shift.”

He won’t say more about the plot, but announces a new scene in Ornithopter that he was able to prepare even better: “On Dune 3unlike the first film, I arrived early on set and studied the dashboard, all these hieroglyphics and these weird things that are not anchored in reality. I wanted to know the function of each button, and invent a way to understand them.”