Dune

film by Villeneuve [2021]

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Bardem

  • Javier Bardem
    In Javier Bardem

    …credits the following year included Dune, an adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel, and Being the Ricardos, Aaron Sorkin’s biopic about a turbulent week in the life of Lucille Ball and her husband, Desi Arnaz, both of whom starred in the TV comedy series I Love Lucy. For his

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Bautista

  • In Dave Bautista: Acting

    …later cast Bautista in his Dune films (2021 and 2024) as Beast Rabban Harkonnen. In 2022 Bautista appeared in Rian Johnson’s comedic whodunit Glass Onion as men’s rights streamer Duke Cody, and in 2023 he paired up with horror master M. Night Shyamalan for a starring role in Knock at…

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Brolin

  • Josh Brolin
    In Josh Brolin: Sicario and The Avengers series

    …cast as Gurney Halleck in Dune (both 2021), a hugely popular adaption of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel. In 2022 he returned to television, starring in the mystery thriller series Outer Range. He played Royal Abbott, a Wyoming cattle rancher who discovers a supernatural void on his property and has…

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Chalamet

  • Timothée Chalamet
    In Timothée Chalamet: Dune and other movies from the 2020s

    …in Denis Villeneuve’s interpretation of Dune, Frank Herbert’s 1965 science-fiction epic. Chalamet’s turn as a lead actor carrying a big-budget movie gained mostly positive reviews. He reprised the role in Dune: Part Two (2024). In 2022 he reteamed with Luca Guadagnino, director of Call Me by Your Name, in the…

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discussed in biography

  • Denis Villeneuve
    In Denis Villeneuve

    Dune, starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, and Jason Momoa and based on Frank Herbert’s famed 1965 science-fiction novel of the same name, was a major commercial success. It was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including best picture, and won

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Ferguson

  • Rebecca Ferguson
    In Rebecca Ferguson: Dune and later credits

    More successful was Dune (2021), cowritten and directed by Denis Villeneuve and based on the sci-fi classic by Frank Herbert. In the well-received action drama, Ferguson was cast as Lady Jessica Atreides, the resilient mother of the central character, Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet). She reprised the role in…

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Isaac

  • Oscar Isaac
    In Oscar Isaac: Career

    …in the sci-fi action film Dune as Duke Leto Atreides, father of protagonist Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), and he made waves in the TV miniseries Scenes from a Marriage, a retelling of the miniseries of the same name by filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, in which Isaac played a professor who is…

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Momoa

  • Jason Momoa
    In Jason Momoa

    …adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel Dune (2021). During the same period, Momoa continued to act in television series: he played the ex-convict Phillip Kopus in The Red Road (2014–15), the fur-trading outlaw Declan Harp in Frontier (2016–18), and Baba Voss, the chief of the Alkenny, in See (2019– ).

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novel by Herbert

  • In Frank Herbert

    …director Denis Villeneuve released another film adaptation, which was based on the first half of Dune, and the sequel Dune: Part Two followed in 2024.

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  • Dune by Frank Herbert
    In Dune: Publication and adaptations

    …director Denis Villeneuve released another film adaptation, based on the first half of Dune and starring Timothée Chalamet as Paul. It was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including for best picture, and won 6. Villeneuve adapted the second half of the novel as Dune: Part Two (2024), and an adaptation…

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Zendaya

  • Zendaya
    In Zendaya: Big-screen debut and subsequent projects

    … in Denis Villeneuve’s multipart (2021 and 2024) adaptation of Dune, Frank Herbert’s 1965 science-fiction epic. She was also a part of Elvis Mitchell’s documentary Is That Black Enough for You? (2022), which explores the history of Black cinema.

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