One of the benefits of being (at least nominally) in charge of the good ship PC Gamer—there are still a few—is that I get to write about whatever I want. Mostly that means Destiny 2 and Hearthstone, but today it also means the Dune 2 movie, which has released its first trailer. Frankly, I was surprised no other members of the team beat me to it, but judging by the "sorry I just can't take Timothee Chalamet seriously" and "didn't all the interesting characters die" messages in Slack, it appears I've surrounded myself with heathens who don't care about the second part of Denis Villeneuve's icy rendition of one of the all-time pillars of the sci-fi canon.
Anyway: The trailer. There's sand. There's Zendaya and my semi-namesake Timmy Chalamet gazing at each other mournfully with eyes blue like justice. There's more sand. There's Flo Pugh, shot before she shaved her head, looking absolutely immaculate as Princess Irulan. There's Austin 'Elvis' Butler who has shaved his head (and eyebrows) looking vampiric as Harkonnen asshole Feyd-Rautha (previously played by Sting in David Lynch's flawed but bonkers version). There is, finally, more sand.
