Dune Part Two London Film Premiere 2023

1. Officially green lit on October 26th, 2021; four days after Dune: Part One's US release.
2. The sequel was green-lit after Dune: Part One topped the U.S. box office on its opening weekend: making a career-best performance for Villeneuve, and Warner's top-performing opener of 2021.
3. According to New York Times columnist Kyle Buchanan at the time Austin Butler was announced as the frontrunner to play Feyd-Rautha, Tye Sheridan and Harry Styles were also revealed to be serious contenders for the role.
4. Barry Keoghan published a tweet that contained a hush emoji and a winking emoji immediately after this film was announced, which has led to mass speculation whether he's been cast in the film.
5. Reunites Timothée Chalamet and Florence Pugh after acting alongside each other in Little Women (2019).
6. In May 2022, Christopher Walken was announced to be joining the cast as Emperor Shaddam IV. Some fans have pointed out a coincidence as Walken starred in the 2001 music video for the Fatboy Slim song "Weapon of Choice", which includes the prominent lyric "Walk without rhythm, and it won't attract the worm", a quote from Dune (1984).
7. Many fans objected to white actor Christopher Walken playing a role previously played by a Hispanic (Jose Ferrer) and an Italian (Giancarrlo Giannini) actor. However, despite the character's name, the novels do not identify him as Hispanic, Italian, or Middle-Eastern. The surname Corrino was adopted by a member of House Butler to connect his dynasty to the Battle of Corrin, in which humanity defeated the thinking machines.
8. Emma Roberts was offered the role of Princess Irulan, but scheduling conflicts prevented her from taking the role.
9. Emperor Shaddam IV is described in the book as an old man but his shape is of a man in thirties, fans online nominated Mads Mikkelsen, Viggo Mortensen, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Denzel Washington, Charles Dance for the role of the Emperor as they all above the age of 50 but doesn't appear so, before choosing Christopher Walken in May 2022.
10. Bill Skarsgård and Barry Keoghan were considered for the role of Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen before Austin Butler was cast.
11. Anya Taylor-Joy, Freya Allan, Jodie Comer, Hunter Schafer, Sydney Sweeney, Lily James, Kathryn Newton, Elle Fanning, Maya Hawke, Josephine Langford, Ana de Armas, Saoirse Ronan, Clara Rosager, Samara Weaving, and Teresa Palmer were considered for the role of Princess Irulan before Florence Pugh was cast.
12. The film cast includes two Oscar winners: Javier Bardem and Christopher Walken; and four Oscar nominees: Timothée Chalamet, Charlotte Rampling, Florence Pugh, and Josh Brolin.
13. Elizabeth Debicki, Eva Green, Amy Adams, Natalie Dormer, Olivia Taylor Dudley, and Gwyneth Paltrow were considered for the role of Lady Margot Fenring before Léa Seydoux was cast.
14. Christopher Walken will appear in this film as Emperor Shaddam IV. Walken has previously appeared with Dune (1984) actor Brad Dourif in Heaven's Gate (1981). Dourif has stated that the 1984 film is "Science fiction's answer to Heaven's Gate".
15. The film unites several actors from the James Bond film franchise: Christopher Walken appeared as villain Max Zorin in A View to a Kill (1985); Javier Bardem played Silva in Skyfall; and Léa Seydoux appeared in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
16. Emperor Shaddam IV, Princess Irulan, Alia Atreides and Feyd Rautha Harkonnen will appear in this sequel for the first time since they didn't appear in the first part.

Where was Dune Part Two filmed?

Dune Part Two was set around this are the locations:

• Budapest, Hungary
• Wadi Rum, Jordan
• Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
• Altivole, Treviso, Italy

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Cast

Timothée Chalamet

as Paul Atreides

Rebecca Ferguson

as Lady Jessica Atreides

Zendaya

as Chani

Javier Bardem

as Stilgar

Josh Brolin

as Gurney Halleck

Austin Butler

as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen

Florence Pugh

as Princess Irulan Corrino

Dave Bautista

as Glossu Rabban Harkonnen

Léa Seydoux

as Lady Margot

Stellan Skarsgård

as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen

Christopher Walken

as Emperor Shaddam IV

Charlotte Rampling

as Reverend Mother Mohiam

Stephen McKinley Henderson

as Thufir Hawat

Alan Mehdizadeh

as Weapon Master

Imola Gáspár

as Old Watermaster

Ana Cilas

as Harpie

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