The Lady Jessica will return. According to Rebecca Ferguson, her character — mother of Paul Atreides and Reverend Mother for the Fremen of Arrakis — will have a role in the third Denis Villeneuve-directed Dune film. This is despite the fact that Lady Jessica barely appears in the book upon which the movie is based, Frank Herbert’s second Dune novel from 1969, Dune Messiah.
“I don’t have a big part in this one, [she’s] just barely in the book,” Ferguson said in an interview with IndieWire. “I’m not sure I was supposed to be in it, and Denis had a little idea.” So, what exactly was Villeneuve’s little idea? And could this hint that Dune 3 will adapt more than just the second book?
