After many delays, Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune finally came out earlier this year, and it was a hit. The rolling sand dunes, the massive sand worms, the excellent performances…it’s as good an adaptation of Dune as we’ve ever gotten, and Villeneuve is already working on a follow-up.
But in the meantime, there are still secrets the original movie has to yield up. For instance, the other day Rebecca Ferguson (Lady Jessica) wished her costar Timothée Chalamet (Paul Atreides) a happy 26th birthday with an image from a deleted scene…a pretty intense deleted scene, by the look of it:
"Always an odd feeling when a scene you love doesn’t make the cut. Hope one day this one makes it out to you guys. Training my son/birthday boy in the arts of the Bene Gesserit’s knife work."
Jessica is Paul’s mother, and a member of the powerful Bene Gesserit organization. Although she isn’t supposed to, she trains Paul in the ways of the Bene Gesserit, who apparently includes close-quarters knife-fighting. Considering some of the things he goes through in the movie (and the movies to come), that’s a useful skill to have.
Will we ever get to watch this deleted scene from Dune?
While Villeneuve has no plans for a director’s cut of the first movie, it’s very possible we’ll see this deleted scene sooner or later, maybe on a home video release or put out to hype up the next film. Ferguson was sly in posting an image from the scene; that’s a good way to get fans to demand its release, and Warner Bros. may just listen.
Dune: Part II is scheduled to come out on October 20, 2023.
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