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Austin Butler (Feyd-Rautha) says filming Dune: Part Two was “surreal”

By Daniel Roman

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 05: Austin Butler attends the Sydney premiere of ELVIS at the State Theatre on June 05, 2022 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Don Arnold/WireImage)
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 05: Austin Butler attends the Sydney premiere of ELVIS at the State Theatre on June 05, 2022 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Don Arnold/WireImage) /
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Denis Villeneuve’s Dune was a smash success when it premiered in 2021, and the anticipation is high for the follow-up. While Villeneuve and his team were largely successful in adapting Frank Herbert’s iconic novel for the big screen, the first movie only told half the story. We saw the destruction of House Atreides at the hands of their bitter enemies House Harkonnen. How will Dune: Part Two treat young Paul Atreides as he exacts his revenge?

One new character who will be fighting Paul is Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, the nephew of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård). Feyd-Rautha was famously played by a scantily-clad Sting in David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Dune, but this time around it will be Austin Butler (Elvis, The Shannara Chronicles).

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 19: Austin Butler attends the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 13th Governors Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on November 19, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 19: Austin Butler attends the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 13th Governors Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on November 19, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images) /

Austin Butler: It was “incredibly exciting” to work on Dune: Part Two

Butler was on hand at the Academy’s Governors Awards event this past weekend. Variety‘s Marc Malkin tried slipping in some questions about the upcoming science fiction epic. “Do you think I can tell you everything? I can’t tell,” Butler laughed.

Although he did say a little about what it was like to discover that he was cast as the villain Feyd-Rautha. “I just I loved the first film so much. It was this cinematic masterpiece, so the idea of getting to be a part of that world is just incredibly exciting and Denis is one of my favorite filmmakers and just an amazing human being. He’s so kind and I’m a fan of every one of those actors in the film, so I I felt really honored.

"It’s really surreal. You feel sort of like a kid in your favorite film. It’s like walking on to the set of any film that that you admire, like walking onto Indiana Jones or something like that. Like one of those films that really impact you as a kid, that’s how it felt."

Dune: Part Two is currently in production in Budapest, and is slated for release on November 3, 2023.

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