Actor David Dastmalchian joins Legendary Pictures’ Dune movie as Piter De Vries
According to Deadline, actor David Dastmalchian (The Dark Knight, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Bird Box) has joined the cast of Legendary Pictures and director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune movie. Dastmalchian will portray Piter De Vries, a powerful and twisted Mentat (a human trained to perform extraordinary mental functions rivaling computers, which are banned and outlawed in the universe Dune takes place in), who is in service to the vile Baron Harkonnen.
Dastmalchian joins an already stellar cast that includes:
- Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides
- Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica (Paul’s mother)
- Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto Atreides (Paul’s father)
- Zendaya as Chani (Paul’s Freman lover)
- Javier Bardem as the Freman leader Stilgar
- Josh Brolin as House Atreides weapons master Gurney Halleck
- Jason Momoa as House Atreides’ loyal swordmaster Duncan Idaho
- Charlotte Rampling as the Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
- Stellan Skarsgård as the evil Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
- Dave Bautista as Glossu “the Beast” Rabban Harkonnen (the Baron’s nephew)
It’s interesting to note that Dastmalchian will join Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy), Skarsgård (Thor movies), Josh Brolin (Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War), and Zendaya (Spider-Man: Homecoming) as actors who have also starred in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Villeneuve has already made it clear that this movie will cover the first half of Frank Herbert’s first Dune novel, which is a great choice because the book is deserving of as much screentime it can get to accurately tell Herbert’s pioneering science fiction story.
Look for Dune to hit theaters around November 2020, with production beginning at some point this summer.
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