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- Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have released the final trailer for Dune: Part Three, teasing an assassination plot against Paul Atreides and Chani’s possible involvement.
- The film is set nearly two decades after Paul Atreides seized control of the Imperium.
- Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Florence Pugh, Anya Taylor-Joy, Robert Pattinson and Javier Bardem star.
- Tickets are now on sale for Dune: Part Three, which opens in Australian cinemas on 16 December 2026 and in North America on 18 December.
If any film on the horizon can go toe-to-toe with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey for sheer IMAX-scale ambition, it’s Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three.
The new trailer from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures picks up nearly two decades after Paul Atreides seized control of the Imperium. Sand, war, prophecy, political collapse, giant worms, whispering dread; the trailer has it all. But instead of just making everything bigger, it makes all that big stuff feel deeply personal.
Chani is furious. Hayt thinks Paul can’t be saved. And Paul, now ruling as a ruthless Emperor, is starting to understand that taking power and living with it are two very different things.
The Final Trailer For ‘Dune: Part Three’
Warner Bros. has now dropped the final trailer for Dune: Part Three, and Paul Atreides’ reign looks even shakier than it did in July.
We open on Paul using the Voice to interrogate Princess Irulan (Florence Pugh). “There will be an assassination attempt,” she warns, before revealing that “Chani’s involved.” Robert Pattinson’s Scytale then claims they’ve found a way to neutralise the Emperor, and when he asks Chani if she’s ready, she replies: “Fremen keep their word.”
We’re told Muad’Dib has conquered a thousand worlds in 19 years, but Paul now admits he’s become “the oppressor Chani had sworn to fight.” We also get our first proper look at Paul and Chani’s twins, Leto II (Nakoa-Wolf Momoa) and Ghanima (Ida Brooke).
Chani insists she’s doing this for their children, while Paul asks Hayt to protect his family. Suddenly, the fate of the Imperium feels like the least of his problems.
Beyond the palace intrigue, the final trailer doesn’t skimp on the devastation. Enormous warships fill the skies above exploding battlefields, while Fremen soldiers push through the carnage. Sandworms churn through the desert, and we catch a bloodied Alia (Anya Taylor-Joy).
But perhaps the most alarming line is Paul’s own: “I can’t see what’s ahead.” For a man whose visions of the future helped him seize control of the Imperium, that’s one hell of a blind spot.
What Did the First Dune: Part Three Trailer Reveal?
From the moment the trailer begins, Paul isn’t treated like a hero. No longer framed as the young heir, the survivor or the chosen one. He’s the Emperor, the man everyone is now measuring against the damage done in his name.
But for all that power, we start with Chani telling him exactly how she feels. “I trusted you,” she says, reminding Paul of his promise never to take power in his own name.
Then there’s Hayt, played by Jason Momoa, who tells Paul he has “conquered the galaxy” and “destroyed thousands of worlds”. But Hayt isn’t afraid to tell Paul he’s “way beyond redemption.”
For a trailer packed with such immense scale, it’s these lines of dialogue from the people close enough to Paul that cut through.
1/5A Proper Blockbuster With Personal Stakes
Of course, there’s still plenty of blockbuster movie machinery to enjoy. Robert Pattinson’s Scytale appears to be circling imperial power like a certain senator from a galaxy far, far away; there’s a peace proposal from Hayt that may not be as peaceful as it sounds; and the word “regime change” gets thrown around with the sort of casual menace you would expect in this world.
Not to mention the gargantuan set pieces, from large-scale intergalactic warfare to grim images of bodies left behind. Spacecraft zip past massive temples, shrines and monuments that tower above the landscape. Hayt clashes with Paul in a tightly staged fight scene. Weary soldiers appear stranded on a beach, looking like the war has already swallowed them. And Chani stops a sandworm in its tracks.
Book readers will no doubt have a better idea of where all this is heading. For everyone else, the trailer does enough: it looks enormous, strange and properly ominous.
1/4Who Stars in Dune: Part Three?
Timothée Chalamet returns as Paul Atreides, with Zendaya as Chani, Jason Momoa as Hayt, Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan, Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica, Anya Taylor-Joy as Alia Atreides, Robert Pattinson as Scytale and Javier Bardem as Stilgar. The cast also includes Isaach de Bankolé and Charlotte Rampling.
Villeneuve is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Brian K. Vaughan, based on Frank Herbert’s novels. Dune: Part Three opens in North America on 18 December 2026, with international release beginning 16 December 2026.
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