This film - which now has a trailer - continues on from the second film from director Denis Villeneuve which adapted the final portion of the original 1965 novel Dune and details what happens once Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and his mother, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), join up with the Fremen, including the young woman he has long dreamt about, Chani (Zendaya).
However, the story of the novel Dune does not end there, with this third and final film from Villeneuve adapting the second novel from Frank Herbert in the series, the unique 1968 sequel novel Dune Messiah.
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There’s a time-jump
Paul-Muad’Dib is the Emperor of the Known Universe and - as they never parted in the first Dune novel - Chani remains by his side as his concubine and closest advisor. Stilgar is also still a close advisor and is now a Minister of State.
The Imperium has begun terra-forming parts of the planet, and reservoirs of water are being grown, as previously envisioned by Dr Liet-Kynes and hinted at in Paul’s visions (as seen in Dune: Part Two).
Emperor Paul-Muad’Dib is all-powerful and is guilty of genocide
Despite the mass death and destruction, Paul’s powerful prescient abilities mean that he has foreseen this as the “narrow path” that avoided even more devastation.
Many more than just the Fremen have joined the religious juggernaut behind Muad’Dib, but the religion around this messiah is centred on Arrakis and led by the Qizarate, among whom the high priest is Korba, one of Paul’s former loyal Fedyakin commandos.
Lady Jessica is absent
Having retired to the old Atreides homeward of Caladan, Lady Jessica has returned to the place she was happiest: her home with her late lover, Duke Leto Atreides.
Regardless of her absence, Jessica is heavily mentioned and counsels her son from afar and is remembered by the Bene Gesserit for her betrayal of their plans.
Yet, Paul is not the only Atreides remaining on Arrakis.
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In the first novel, a four-year-old Alia had been the one to slay her maternal grandfather, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, with a Gom Jabbar needle and had proclaimed her brother as the Kwisatz Haderach.
The Bene Gesserit, who consider Alia’s abilities to be unnatural, regard her as an Abomination and fear what dangers lie beneath the surface of her consciousness.
Princess Irulan Corino is part of a conspiracy against the Atreides
The conspirators against Paul include Irulan and Jessica’s Bene Gesserit tutor Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam who represents her sisterhood, Edric of the Spacing Guild, whose Spice-related abilities as a Guild Navigator means he can shield the cabal from the Atreides’ prescient abilities, disaffected Fremen who resent Paul’s changes to Arrakis, and Scytale, a shapeshifting Face-Dancer of the genetic manipulators the Bene Tleilax.
Meanwhile, the Bene Tleilax have given Edric a gift to present to Paul, undermining his standing with the Fremen who will consider it unnatural…
Duncan Idaho is resurrected - with a catch
This ghola is named Hayt and has been trained as a Mentat - a human ‘thinking computer’ - and also a philosopher with no memories of the life of Duncan Idaho, but occasionally flashes of his old life come through and carry his appearance as a younger man than even Paul knew.
Hayt’s presence also leads to sexual confusion from Alia, who finds herself attracted to him despite her abilities giving her memories of the original Duncan Idaho.
Chani longs to give Paul children - but he predicts tragedy
Chani realises what Irulan has been doing and longs to kill her, but Paul stops her as he believes his consort still has her uses and can cause them no more harm.
Paul also had been aware of what Irulan was doing, but his visions had shown that if Chani gave birth to Paul’s heirs, then she would undoubtedly die.
Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam is taken prisoner
Irulan visits the captive Mohiam, and the two communicate through their Bene Gesserit abilities. It becomes clear that Irulan is being pragmatic and trying her best to survive in the Imperium, but Mohiam instructs her to sow seeds of discontent and hints at even pushing a potential incestuous union between Paul and Alia to preserve the Atreides bloodline.
Mohiam promises to write to the Sisterhood on the offer, but knows that artificial insemination is against the laws of her order - Paul has trapped her.
Emperor Paul-Muad'Dib is blinded
Paul, aware of Scytale’s plotting and the trap, goes into the desert to meet with Otheym, who reveals a Fremen conspiracy against Paul.
When Paul’s troops attack the Fremen conspirators against him that Otheym led him to, a group of Fremen rebels set off an atomic weapon known as a stone burner, which blinds Paul.
The Fremen believe that a blind man must walk into the desert alone, but due to his powerful psychic abilities, Paul is still able to see events as they happen - only further increasing his religious standing.
Chani gives birth to twins - and dies
Despite this surprise, what Paul dreaded most happens: Chani dies in childbirth.
Paul is shattered with grief for his true love.
Hayt’s true purpose - and Scytale's plan - is revealed
Chani’s death prompts Paul to experience profound grief, and this triggers Hayt, which only revives the latent memories of Duncan Idaho, and he refuses to kill Paul.
Paul fears what the Bene Tleilax may force Chani to do and that they will plot to influence the Imperium for their ends, so he refuses.
Then, through his son’s oracular abilities, Paul can see the dangers and aims a dagger at Scytale and kills him.
After slaying this enemy, Bijaz then repeats the Bene Tleilax's offer to Paul. In response, Paul has Duncan execute the Tleilaxu agent.
A new status quo comes to the Imperium
Naming his twin children his heirs with the names Leto II and Ghanima, Paul leaves them in the care of Alia, who is named Holy Imperial Regent, and he asks her to spare all of the other conspirators against him.
Irulan is spared, as after being so moved by the loss of Paul and Chani, she has renounced any further devotion to the Bene Gesserit and House Corrino and devotes herself to helping to raise Paul and Chani's heirs.
Finally, an emotional Alia and the restored Duncan enter into a new and romantic stage of their relationship.
What is the meaning behind Dune Messiah?
All of the darker themes and fears about the dangers of messiahs present in the first book are realised, and Paul himself feels trapped and resigned to his destiny in Dune Messiah.
In an essay by Frank Herbert titled Dune Genesis, the author wrote: "How did it evolve? I conceived of a long novel, the whole trilogy as one book about the messianic convulsions that periodically overtake us. Demagogues, fanatics, con-game artists, the innocent and the not-so-innocent bystanders - all were to have a part in the drama. This grows from my theory that superheroes are disastrous for humankind. Even if we find a real hero (whatever-or whoever-that may be), eventually fallible mortals take over the power structure that always comes into being around such a leader."
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