Dune 2 Trailer Teaser Gives Best Look at Austin Butler Villain and Florence Pugh's Irulan

Dune Part 2 Trailer Coming May 3, Teaser and Poster Out Now

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For Villeneuve, Feyd’s pose tells us much about this new threat to the young Paul Atriedes (Timothée Chalamet), who, along with his mother Lady Jessica (Rebecca Furgeson), barely escaped the assassination attempt that took the life of his father, Duke Leto (Oscar Isaac). “He’s someone Machiavellian, much more cruel, much more strategic, and is more narcissistic,” Villeneuve told Vanity Fair.

That sets him apart from his brother Rabban, who more directly pines for the Duke’s approval. “Rabban finds himself, at the end of part one, in the position where he doesn’t have the brain to be able to manage and control all these operations,” said Villeneuve. “Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen is a very clever, very charismatic figure, and much more brilliant.”To describe Butler’s performance as Feyd, the Canadian director turns to a famous English rock star, one with deep ties to the character. No, not Sting, who memorably portrayed Feyd in Lynch’s Dune, but rather the person Alejandro Jodorowsky had in mind for his famously doomed take on Dune, Mick Jagger. “Austin Butler brought to the screen something that would be a cross between a psychotic, sociopath serial killer and Mick Jagger,” Villeneuve revealed.

In addition to Feyd, the teaser also gives us another look at Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan:

We saw the first glimpse at Princess Irulan and Léa Seydoux as Bene Gesserit Lady Margot last week. Below, you can see Pugh wearing a different headpiece…

The daughter of Emperor Shaddam IV (who will be played by Christopher Walken in Dune: Part Two), Irulan becomes a central figure in not just the life of Paul Atreides but also in his legacy as mythological savior Kwisatz Haderach. That brings her sometimes in line with and sometimes against Lady Margot, a Bene Gesserit who does not “think about what’s good or what is evil,” according to Villeneuve. For the Bene Gesserit, “What is important is to bring humanity to its full potential and to try to create a being that will bring humanity to enlightenment.”