The First In-Depth-Look At ‘Dune’ Has Been Released, Sequel Film Already Confirmed

After dropping a teaser image on Monday that featured Academy Award-nominee Timothée Chalamet as franchise star Paul Atreides standing on a sullen-looking beach, Vanity Fair has released an exclusive batch of first-look photos, in addition to an in-depth interview with the cast and crew.

Starring Chalamet as the young royal Paul Atreides, Dune follows “the proverbial stranger in a very strange land, who’s fighting to protect this hostile new home even as it threatens to destroy him.” In the world of Dune, “humans are the aliens on Arrakis” and the “dominant species on that world are immense, voracious sandworms that burrow through the barren drifts like subterranean dragons.”

Dune — based on the 1965 sci-fi novel of the same name — features as loaded of a cast as you could hope to see in a sci-fi film. In addition to Chalamet, Dune also stars Oscar Issac, Josh Brolin, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Stellan Skarsgard, Dave Bautista, Jason Momoa, Javier Bardem, and more.

In addition to the first-look photos, the Vanity Fair exclusive also features confirmation from director Denis Villeneuve that he plans on making a second Dune film.

“I would not agree to make this adaptation of the book with one single movie,” says Villeneuve. “The world is too complex. It’s a world that takes its power in details,” Villeneuve said.

At this time, Dune remains on schedule and is set to hit theaters in the United States on Friday, December 18.

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