First trailer for DUNE: PART THREE released

Warner Brothers have unveiled the first trailer for Dune: Part Three.Directed and co-written by Denis Villeneuve, the film adapts the second novel in Frank Herbert's Dune series, Dune Messiah (1969). The story takes place some years after the events of the first two movies, with Paul Atreides ruling the galaxy as the Emperor. To solidify his power, he has unleashed the Fremen of Arrakis in a vast holy war, but in the process he has caused arguably far more harm than the old Emperor and the Harkonnens ever could, leading to many to conspire against him. Caught in the crossfire are his estranged wife, Chani, his mother Jessica and his old comrade-in-arms Duncan Idaho, killed during the original conflict on Arrakis but now resurrected as a ghola, a flesh-clone created by the redoubtable Tleilaxu.Curiously, Villeneuve has been strident in bailing from the franchise at this point, although the narrative arc begun in Dune only concludes properly in the third book in the series, Children of…