It looks like Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune has been dipping into the MCU…
Stellan Skarsgard is to play the villainous Baron Harkonnen, whose family previously ruled Arrakis and has a long hatred of the Atreides family, plotting with the galactic emperor to destroy it.
He joins the newly added Dave Bautista who is to play his nephew, “Beast” Rabban.
The actors are well known to MCU fans for playing Professor Erik Selvig and Drax respectively.
The two join an already impressive cast including Timothee Chalamet as Paul Atreides, the son of the ruler of the family, who is forced to escape into the desert wastelands and partner with its nomadic tribes. Using enhanced mental abilities, he eventually rises to become their ruler, with the nomads believing he is their messiah, and leads an army to overthrow the empire, and Rebecca Ferguson as Atreides’ mother, Lady Jessica, who escapes with him into the desert and helps him become a savior in their eyes.
Bautista also starred in Villeneuve’s rather brillian Blade Runner 2049.
This is definitely one to be excited for…
Marc
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