DENIS VILLENEUVE'S

DUNE PART THREE

Every throne is built on sand.

12 . 18 . 2026 ONLY IN THEATERS
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“Here is the man who would be god, standing on the edge of his own legend — and the desert, patient as eternity, waiting to take him back.”

— from “Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib” by the Princess Irulan

THE FINAL CHAPTER

The story of
Dune Messiah

Twelve years after the fall of House Harkonnen, Paul Atreides rules the known universe. The Fremen jihad he unleashed has burned across ten thousand worlds. He has seen all of it — every possible future — and cannot look away.

I

The Emperor of Sand

Muad'Dib sits the Golden Lion Throne. Billions cry his name; billions more curse it. He commands the spice, the Guild, the great Houses — everything except the future he has already witnessed. The boy who crossed the desert is gone. What remains is a monument to him, and monuments cannot move.

HOUSE ATREIDES · 10219 AG

II

The Conspiracy of Shadows

In the spaces between his sight, they gather: the Spacing Guild, the Bene Gesserit, the corpse-whisperers of the Tleilaxu — and a princess who writes history with one hand while the other holds a knife. They cannot kill a god. So they plan to make him mortal again. Chani, his Sihaya, stands at the center of the snare.

THE CONSPIRACY · ARRAKEEN

III

The Trap of Sight

To see everything is to be chained to everything. Each vision Paul accepts becomes a wall of the prison he builds for himself. The ghola wears a dead friend's face. The oracles close like water over a stone. And in the deep desert, the old Fremen whisper the law that waits for the blind: the desert takes its own.

PRESCIENCE · THE NARROW PATH

IV

The Desert Takes Its Due

When the stone burner's light takes his eyes, Paul Atreides finally sees clearly. He gives the throne to the future — to Alia, to the twins, to a story that no longer needs its messiah. Then he does the one thing no vision could hold: he walks, alone, into the sand. The legend ends. The man becomes the desert.

THE FALL · SHAI-HULUD WITNESSES

CHARACTERS & CAST

Those who remain
in the storm

touch a name — the spice will show you

with Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica · Javier Bardem as Stilgar · Jason Momoa as the ghola Duncan Idaho

TRANSMISSIONS FROM ARRAKIS

Watch the desert
move

Official teaser key art from the Dune saga — a lone figure crossing the deep desert of Arrakis
KEY ART 002The long walk. The saga's teaser art, kept for the record.

A Hans Zimmer-scale sky

The final chapter's sound is built from the desert itself — wind over erg, the drum of a thumper, voices beneath the sand. Zimmer returns to score the fall of a messiah.

Filmed for the format it deserves

Shot on IMAX-certified large format cameras across the deserts of Jordan and Abu Dhabi, under real sun, on real sand.

THE APPOINTMENT IN ARRAKEEN

12.18.2026

ONLY IN THEATERS & IMAX — THE CONCLUSION OF THE TRILOGY

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