PDWT_12 said:

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No inside knowledge or anything but I would not be surprised if they're saving those three for the second movie.

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I could see this for the emperor and the princess especially if they are just talked about by the Duke and Baron. But Feyd seems he would have too much interaction with the Baron and Beast since they are in the movie.

So is the fat guy between the Duke and Paul the mentat, Thufir Hawat(sp?)?

TexAgBolter said:

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So is the fat guy between the Duke and Paul the mentat, Thufir Hawat(sp?)?

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Can't see his lips on my phone

PDWT_12 said:

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Agreed. What do you think of your name sake? I think a lot of people had reservations on Mamoa but I might already be sold just on that one image. I couldn't picture Drogo or Aquaman as Idaho, but what we're getting appears to be a completely different version of him in my mind. Very cool.

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Just FYI, this is also Mamoa here...

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Not to mention these landscapes and cinematography are ON POINT. (By the guy who shot Rogue One, btw.)

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Also worked on the Mandalorian and is working on the new Batman movie as well. Dude's been busy.

Love the set pics so far, and I just get the feeling that Denis is nailing it from the way he describes some of the characters and how the movie should feel. Don't really care a whole lot about the gender swapping of certain character, she looks cool in the pictures and I can see how it could work I guess.

So if TENET is going to hold to it's current date (and what a gamble that could pay off massively for them), and Dune is as well, will we be getting a trailer for it soon? Seems like those usually drop relatively quickly after these Vanity Fair pieces right?

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It's so hard to tell. As for the timing of the Vanity Fair pics, for The Rise of Skywalker, they came a month or so after the first trailer, and for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the first trailer didn't come until two months after the first VF pics. But in general, yes, the first trailer usually follows shortly in the wake of the first official stills.

That said, this situation is obviously unique. My bet is that even Warner Bros. still doesn't know when they're going to release the first trailer. I'm sure they have multiple scenarios in place, but the Vanity Fair spread was likely already in motion before the virus hit, since these stills and the article will be in the print version as well. There are some things that just can't be reversed. For instance, there's a print clothing campaign with the director of No Time to Die that just hit, for the promotion of that movie, that couldn't be stopped despite the release date change. I have no idea if that's the case here, but it's a possibility.

Either way, even with WB's bold stance to keep Tenet in July as of now, as much as I want it to, I still don't see that happening. And as I've said previously, if Tenet moves, Dune likely moves as well. Tenet's final trailer was scheduled to hit with Black Widow the last week of April/the first weekend of May. So we'll know if WB holds to that trailer release window in a couple of weeks. If WB triples down, and does release the final Tenet trailer then, I would expect the first Dune to trailer to follow within a month or so after, but I would be shocked if it hits before.

Man, I almost can't remember life before covid.

We haven't had any major trailers in what, a month now?

TexAgBolter said:

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So is the fat guy between the Duke and Paul the mentat, Thufir Hawat(sp?)?

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Yes it is.

So.... Brazil?

Saw that on Reddit yesterday. The OP said it was Norway. He knew they were filming a movie, but had no idea what it was. Said he was too busy to take the time to go watch. Was very surprised when that shot popped up in the VF article.

Can't wait for this movie!

I'm so confused by some of these names. So in this world, there are people named "Paul," "Jessica," and "Wellington," but then also people named "Thufir Hawat" and "Liet Kynes" and the like?

On that note, I know it's a completely different solar system or galaxy or whatever, but are some/all of these people actual human beings, whose ancestors originated on Earth, and this is the far future, or is this more of a Star Wars kind of thing and it's just people who happen to look and act like Earthlings, but there's never mention of Earth, historically or otherwise?

Someone with more knowledge can speak about the names but I guess it's kind of along the same lines as a Luke character and a character named Obi-Wan.

As for the second question Earth is referenced in the books, it's in our "universe" or whatever you want to call it. Although I can't remember if it even is inhabited or exists by the time of the events in the first book.

PDWT_12 said:

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Someone with more knowledge can speak about the names but I guess it's kind of along the same lines as a Luke character and a character named Obi-Wan.

As for the second question Earth is referenced in the books, it's in our "universe" or whatever you want to call it. Although I can't remember if it even is inhabited or exists by the time of the events in the first book.

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That's all I needed to hear. If Earth, at one point, was a thing in this universe, I can totally believe that "Paul"s and "Thufir"s exist together. Thanks for the explanation.

I guess I should have phrased my question not in relation to the more culturally diverse names, but rather if the existence of "Paul"s and "Jessica"s meant that Earth was part of these people's history. Makes sense.

Good to know. It makes little difference ultimately, but I prefer sci-fi like this when it's technically "our" future, so I'm gad to hear.

The story is set 10000 years after the founding of the spacing guild., Which is something like 20,000 BCE

Everyone is human. But some are for a lack of better word, more evolved. Then there are the navigators, which are human but transformed by the spice.

Jews are still a thing. But most other religions have changed with most merging.

Wow, ok. That's pretty cool.

House Atreides claims their ancestry comes from a noble family in Greece, specifically Agamemnon. Without giving too much away their universe is set in our far far future with a major event in our future that creates their culture, politics, rules, etc. Each major house basically rules a different planet. Those planets can explain the different names and cultures, etc. Pretty similar to the Star Wars setup if set with Earth future, but not different aliens, all humans instead.

Here is an article about the band out

https://www.cinemablend.com/new/See-Original-Dune-Handout-Helped-Fans-Follow-Along-66855.html

Everything about that is wild.

I will for sure (after).

Duncan Idaho said:

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Here is an article about the band out

https://www.cinemablend.com/new/See-Original-Dune-Handout-Helped-Fans-Follow-Along-66855.html

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Many of those can be understood by the context clues.

They said "carryall" and showed an aircraft picking up a harvester. Gee...what are they referring to?

Yeah it wasn't as insightful as I remembered

Others have done a good job explaining the culture, but a simpler answer is that almost everyone has vaguely alien sounding names except the characters who serve as the vessels for the reader... Jessica largely at first and then Paul. A couple of other relatively familiar "Earth names" might even be viewed as fake outs because it ties them to the most important characters in kind of a subliminal way and then subverts your expectations.