Denis Villeneuve says upcoming film starring Robert Pattinson as Scytale will be his most personal
Robert Pattinson, star Batman And twilight Timothée is preparing to dethrone Chalamet Dune The third and final part of Denis Villeneuve’s film series, adapted from Frank Herbert’s iconic novels, features the universe’s anti-hero, Paul Atreides.
Pattinson joins team Dune: Part Three Zendaya, Anya Taylor-Joy, Javier Bardem and the film’s director Denis Villeneuve starred in the invitation-only screening of the film’s new trailer in Los Angeles yesterday. The trailer, which includes our first look at Pattinson’s character, hits the internet today.
In the new movie, Pattinson will play Scytale, the rival of Paul Atreides who is planning to dethrone him. In the books, Scytale is a hermaphrodite shapeshifter from the xenophobic and isolationist Tleilaxu sect.
“I absolutely loved these movies,” Pattinson said. “It’s such a huge achievement in terms of casting, it’s so incredible. I think everyone wants to work with Denis. When you see the scope, scale and passion of these films on set, he’s a master. You understand why they feel the way they do on screen. It’s an extraordinary, amazing experience.”
New Dune The film picks up the story 17 years after the end of the last film. “This is a very different movie,” Villeneuve said. “I said to myself, it’s a good idea to come back to this world, [driven] to go there with nostalgia but urgently and with a critical eye and [that we would] Don’t be cocky. “It will be a different tone, a different rhythm, a different tempo.”
Villeneuve described the first two films as “a contemplation, a child discovering a new world, and the second as a war movie”, respectively, and described the third part as “more action-packed, more intense, more muscular than the other two”.
The majority of the new film was shot on old-school 65mm film, a wide, high-definition film with a frame almost 3.5 times larger than standard 35mm film. Although Villeneuve kept the visuals of the planet Arrakis in the high-definition digital 1.90:1 widescreen IMAX format, an unusual decision in the age of digital filmmaking.
“I kept the desert digital because I loved the brutality of digital IMAX,” Villeneuve said. “So the film will truly deliver an IMAX experience and be viewed on the largest screen possible. When you see the result on screen, it’s like no other.”
The visual debut of the new film aims to reflect the change brought about by the planet Arrakis and its place in the universe. Linus Sandgren (La La Land, salt burn, Wuthering Heights) will serve as the new film’s director of photography, replacing Australian Oscar winner Greig Fraser, who shot the first two.
“The climate is different, Arrakis is still a desert planet, but there are differences, there are new planets, and I wanted to approach it with a fresh set of eyes,” Villeneuve said.
Herbert’s expanding literary universe became one of the most influential literary masterpieces of all time; creative branches touch everything Star Wars, game of Thrones And Warhammer 40,000 game to Iron Maiden, Foreign and singer and songwriter Grimes.
Set on the desert planet Arrakis and the struggle between noble families for control of its valuable “spice”, the book series appeared in six original novels published between 1965 and 1985. Villeneuve’s first two films were based on the original volume: Dune. Approaching Dune: Part Three Based on the 1969 book. dune christ.
Villeneuve explains dune christ “Probably my favorite book of the series. It is a very dark book, but a very beautiful book. Let me also say this: [Dune; Part Three] “Even though it is not my most personal film, it is one of my most personal films, so it is a film that is very close to me and very contemporary.”
The 58-year-old Canadian Québécois filmmaker says he feels a deep connection to the fragile relationship between the film’s two lead characters, Paul Atreides (Chalamet), scion of House Atreides, and Chani (Zendaya), a fierce Fremen warrior and eventual wife of Atreides.
“They are struggling, they have relationships, they have the burden and incredible pressure of the world around them,” Villeneuve said. “The shape of their love, the time they spend, how they are, the development of their relationship, the study of the relationship of both characters is very personal to me.”
Villeneuve always planned to transform dune christ It turned into a third movie and Dune into a trilogy of movies, but he didn’t plan to make the third movie so quickly after the first two. “As a filmmaker, when you make a series of films like this, you have a relationship with the audience. [and] “I felt a responsibility to finish the story,” he said.
“I told my team I’m taking a break, that’s it, but I kept waking up in the middle of the night and the image Dune: Part Threeinspired by dune christit kept coming back. So I said okay, let’s do it.
Villeneuve added that the film is a testament to the power of cinema. “It is an art form that will take you on a journey and make you experience things you cannot experience. [while] “Living an orderly life and making you feel things that will create something new in your life,” Villeneuve said.
“[German filmmaker] Wim Wenders said that a great movie is one that makes you want to kick a ball when you leave the theater; This is the idea that cinema is connected to life, Villeneuve said.
“As human beings it’s important to share experiences, to share our lives, we’re in our little bubbles all over the world right now and I think [movie] Theater brings us together, like some sporting events or concerts. “There is something beautiful, beautiful and human about this.”
Dune: Part Three It will be released in Australia on December 17.
Michael Idato is general culture editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.Connect with: X or email.
