With awards season officially over, it’s time to bring out 2026's big guns, and Warner Bros is so confident in the nuke that is Dune: Part Three that they held a special screening in LA for the first teaser trailer, complete with appearances from Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, director Denis Villeneuve, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Javier Bardem. (The Lisan al-gaib himself, Timothée Chalamet, did not pull up to Century City, but he did send a pre-taped message to kick things off, as did Florence Pugh.) Before the trailer played, Denis teased a threequel that will bear little resemblance to the two beloved films that precede it. “It will be a Dune movie—but with a different tone, a different rhythm and a different pace,” Villeneuve told moderator Reece Feldman. “If the first movie was more a contemplation of a boy exploring a new world, and the second was a war movie, this one is a thriller: it’s more action-packed, more dense, more muscular.” But for all of that, Denis said, as “intense” as the film is, the relationship between Timothée’s Paul Atreides and Zendaya’s Chani is “the heartbeat of the film.” That much is evident in the clip, which starts with a tender scene between the two star-crossed lovers imagining the children they might have, before things devolve into explosions, pain and despair. For all the non-readers out there, Villeneuve confirmed that the film charts a 17-year time jump; the first handful of scenes sees Timothée looking youthful as ever with the Atreides locks flowing, but by trailer’s end, he’s sporting the wartime buzzcut that Timothée famously debuted last fall after shooting wrapped. As for the new faces, Pattinson joked that as a huge fan of the first two films, he asked Zendaya on the set of The Drama to put in a good word for him. He described his character Scytale as a slippery one with shifting allegiances and insinuated that he could be good or bad—but in true Pattinson fashion, he also may have meant that he genuinely just doesn’t know if he’s good or bad (to which Villeneuve let out a hearty laugh). Either way, a proper Pattinson freak performance is clearly in store. Taylor-Joy says Paul’s sister Alia, who we glimpsed in a flash-forward in Part Two, is fiercely loyal to her brother while trying not to succumb to her mentally consuming abilities. Villeneuve and co. were cagiest about the return of Jason Momoa’s Duncan Idaho, with the director simply saying that he comes back at “the perfect time” when Paul finds himself in a moment of self-doubt.