“Dune Messiah” has added two more key characters as director Denis Villeneuve has reportedly hired Nakoa-Wolf Momoa (son of returning actor Jason Momoa) and Ida Brooke (“Silo”) to play the twin children of Paul Atreides and Chani Kynes.
This promising casting tidbit from Deadline and other outlets backs up the original reporting from Nexus Point News about the young actors joining the massive sci-fi fantasy film. They join fellow newcomer to the cast Robert Pattinson (“Mickey 17”), who is said to be playing a shapeshifting villain named Scytale (a Tleilaxu Face Dancer) in the third installment that will attempt to assassinate Paul.
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While their children have a much larger role in subsequent “Dune” stories than “Dune Messiah,” they’re protagonists of the novel “Children of Dune” (the third Frank Herbert novel), eventually becoming Empress Ghanima Atreides and God Emperor Leto Atreides II. It’s extremely possible these could end up becoming the characters we follow once Villeneuve hands off sequels to other filmmakers, as “Dune Messiah” will be his last feature film effort with the franchise.
Villeneuve has been adamant about fleshing out the romance between Paula and Chani (something missing in the David Lynch iteration), with “Dune: Part Two” ending on a cliffhanger as Paul is set to marry the Emperor’s daughter Princess Irulan to complete a peace process and secure his place as the next Emperor, despite also launching an intergalactic Holy War against other Houses. Of course, this casting would all but confirm that Paul and Chani, like in the book, end up having children together.
Momoa revealed his surprise return not too long ago, as we’ll also see the return of established cast members such as Timothee Chalamet, Florence Pugh, Zendaya, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Anya Taylor-Joy as Paul’s sister Alia Atreides, and Rebecca Ferguson.
Warner Bros. has yet to give us a release date for “Dune Messiah,” but with the production start looming, we likely won’t have to wait too much longer for that.
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