Though Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune Part Two” has been delayed, more details about the film are still coming out thanks to a feature piece in Empire that now has been rendered a little bit premature.
Recently new images emerged, as did comments from Villeneuve about his desire to film the second book “Dune: Messiah” as a third film – including going so far as to have put pen to paper.
Today though, comes new details about a key scene in the second part involving Josh Brolin’s returning warrior Gurney Halleck. In the original book, Gurney was a skilled musician who played the baliset.
Brolin reportedly shot a scene with a baliset (a nine-stringed musical instrument) for the first movie, but it ended up on the cutting room floor. That’s not the case this time with Villeneuve telling Empire:
“The Gurney song survived Part Two… It became a weird priority for me. But Josh Brolin is a poet and we played it together. It was awesome.”
The first film ended with Gurney presumed dead in the Harkonnen attack, but as trailers show he’s alive and reunites with Paul (Timothee Chalamet) amongst the Fremen.
The pair join Zendaya, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgård, Javier Bardem, Charlotte Rampling, Florence Pugh, Lea Seydoux. Souheila Yacoub, Austin Butler and Christopher Walken.
“Dune: Part Two” is slated to hit cinemas on March 15th 2024.
