Despite the fact that Mamoa’s Duncan Idaho died in the first film, permitting Paul and Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) to flee from the Sardaukar, he’s removed from gone. In reality, Duncan might be revived in Dune Messiah(*3*) as a clone (or ghola) known as Hayt. Educated as a mentat (human pc) and largely devoid of his previous recollections (at the least at first), Hayt is shipped to function an advisor to Paul as half of the conspiracy in opposition to him, making the two outdated pals’ relationship one of the story’s main conflicts. That battle intensifies when Paul’s sister Alia (Anya Taylor-Pleasure) turns into drawn to Hayt, additional muddying his allegiances.
Many additionally find out about Leto II’s destiny. At the finish of Youngsters of Dune(*3*), Leto II merges with a college of sandtrout (sandworms of their larval state), which turns him right into a human-sandworm hybrid. The situation strips Leto II of his humanity, but it surely makes him immortal and heightens his prescience, which he makes use of to proceed his father’s work and put humanity on a inflexible Golden Path.
So when the fourth e-book God Emperor of Dune(*3*) opens, 3500 years have elapsed since Youngsters of Dune(*3*) (which itself takes place 21 years after the occasions of Dune(*3*)), and Leto II stays in energy. Dubbed “the Tyrant” or “the Worm,” Leto II is hated by massive parts of humanity, together with the many rebels who unsuccessfully attempt to depose him. Though Leto II has shorn most of his humanity, he retains one connection by means of his relationship with Duncan Idaho. He usually commissions new gholas of Duncan, who initially befriend him and ultimately flip in opposition to him, setting off a cycle that continues till Leto’s demise.
Given the significance of Duncan to Leto II, the undeniable fact that the two characters might be performed by father and son appears important. The casting might merely work to implement the significance of Duncan to Leto, permitting the viewers to sense a relationship with out counting on dialogue.
Nonetheless, the casting may also level to a extra advanced diversion from Herbert’s plot. In the novel Dune Messiah(*3*), Chani and Paul wrestle to sire youngsters as a result of Princess Irulan (Florence Pugh)—whom Paul married at the finish of Dune(*3*) as a political technique, however not from any kind of love or affection—is poisoning Chani’s meals at the behest of the conspiracy. The poison ceases to work when Chani begins following her native Freman strategies, resulting in the start of Leto II and Ghanima.
Chani stays a roughly fixed companion to Paul all through the first two Dune novels, however Villeneuve threw a wrinkle in that plot along with his diversifications. At the finish of Dune: Half II(*3*), Chani storms away from Paul at the second of his ascension to emperor, suggesting that she already senses the violent chief he’ll develop into. Presumably, the two will come collectively once more in Villeneuve’s Dune III(*3*), but it surely’s onerous to imagine there gained’t be extra tensions in the film than exist in the e-book.