
But at least Paul has met the veritable girl of his dreams, a Fremen named Chani ( Zendaya). Liet Kynes (Sharon Duncan-Brewster) also dead, the Imperium’s other great houses remain none the wiser. The Padishah Emperor and the Harkonnens connived in secret to destroy their house and take back Arrakis from the Atreides clan, and with Dr. But they’re still a billion miles from their home world of Caladan as well as their wealth and power. The film thus ends on a cliffhanger: Mother and son have been tenuously accepted (at least partially) by the indigenous Fremen of the Arrakis desert. Meanwhile Leto’s heir, our dear Paul Atreides ( Timothée Chalamet), has gone to ground, disappearing into the desert with his mother, the Lady Jessica ( Rebecca Ferguson). Oscar Isaac’s Duke Leto lies dead, murdered by his own hand with a poison capsule that also killed the top lieutenants of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård), but which left the grotesque fiend still breathing. That’s where we leave things at the end of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune (or Dune Part One as the film waits until the opening title card to reveal). This article contains massive Dune spoilers, as well as potential spoilers for Dune Part Two.
