It was expected in the next few weeks, and now there’s double confirmation that the first trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s highly-anticipated new adaptation of Frank Herbert’s “Dune” will be with us before the month is out.
First up the film’s star Timothee Chalamet confirmed on Twitter that the trailer is done and coming later this month. The second report comes from InStyle as “Spider-Man: Far From Home” star Zendaya has confirmed that she has seen the trailer and expresses her excitement about the project:
“‘Dune’ was incredible. I wasn’t in it very much, so when I was watching the trailer, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh!’ I called Timothée [Chalamet, who stars in it] and said, ‘Dude! You should be proud.’ It is a big deal to even be a small part of something with such a massive cast. And I love sci-fi stuff too. It’s fun to escape into another world.”
That Zendaya’s part is limited is understandable. As has previously been reported, this is the first of a two-film adaptation of the novel and her character of Chani mostly inhabits the back half of the book.
The trailer is set to play in front of the special re-release screenings for Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” in the United States, it’s not clear if that will be the case for the earlier re-release screenings in international territories.
Famed auteur Alejandro Jodrowsky famously attempted to do an adaptation back in the 1970s which didn’t come together and recently he told IndieWire he doesn’t think anyone can pull it off well:
“‘Dune’ is a book that’s like Proust. It’s science fiction but it’s very, very literary. It’s very difficult to find images to put in the film because pictures are optical. When I had the idea to do that, it was in an ecological [crisis]. I was feeling what all the people feel today. We’re in an ecological problem, because the Earth is changing, and your crazy President doesn’t believe that. That is ‘Dune’ in the beginning.
The first time they said it was safe to do ‘Dune,’ and [David Lynch] did it, I was ill, because it was my dream. They showed the picture in Paris, and my son said, ‘You need to see the picture.’ I was ill to do that… Then they start to show the picture, and step by step, I was so happy, so happy, so happy because it was a sh—y picture. I realized, ‘Dune,’ nobody can do it. It’s a legend.”
Jodorowsky adds he plans to go see Villeneuve’s version: “with pleasure, because it will be different. It’s not the same… it’s impossible to do.”
Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsgard and Charlotte Rampling co-star in the film which is targeting a December 18th release.
