After adapting Frank Herbert’s lauded sci-fi novel Dune across two movies, director Denis Villeneuve is returning to deliver a film adaptation of the follow-up Dune Messiah to the 2026 movies schedule. Naturally, that means Timothée Chalamet will be back as Paul Atreides in Dune: Part III, amidst other familiar faces. Chalamet has now dropped the first look at his character in this upcoming book-to-screen adaptation, and while it’s super unsettling, there’s a good reason Paul looks the way he does.
The actor took to his Instagram Stories page to reveal Paul Atreides looking worse for wear compared to where we left off with him at the end of Dune: Part II. See for yourself:
