Dave Bautista promises Dune: Part 2 will be “amped up,” funnier

Director Denis Villeneuve released his Dune movie back in 2021. The film, based on Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic, was lush, grim and packed with big stars like Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya and Dave Bautista.

It was also one of the most self-serious science fiction epics we’ve seen in a while. That’s consistent with the source material. Herbert’s Dune is a weighty mediation on politics, history and the value of putting your faith in messianic figures. Star Wars it ain’t; there aren’t many people cracking jokes or having fun in these stories.

That said, there were more jokes in the movie than in the book (like, two compared to none), and apparently that will continue in Part 2, which will adapt the back half of Herbert’s original 1965 novel.

Dave Bautista: Dune: Part 2 is “much more cutthroat and political and intense”

“This is so amped up from the first film,” star Dave Bautista told Collider. “The first film was just an introduction to what this film is. There’s just so much going on, it’s so much more cutthroat and political and intense. And there are moments of levity where [there are] some funny moments, and they’re kind of absurd humor, but there are those moments.”

I assume they’ll make up those jokes for the screen, cause there aren’t many in the book itself.

Beyond that, I’m not surprised to hear that the story gets more intense. Dune: Part 2 will see the exiled Paul Atreides (Chalamet) embed himself with the Fremen people and eventually face down the tyrants who murdered his family, which include Bautista’s characters, Glossu “the Beast” Rabban. With a name like that, you know things are gonna get serious.

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