Christopher Walken will be the Emperor of ‘Dune: Part Two’

Christopher Walken has joined the cast of the second part of the best movie of 2021 for users of this website to play the role of Shaddam Corrino IV, the eighty-first Padishah Emperor of the Known Universe at the time of the Ascension of Paul Atriedes I. A role that in the 1984 version directed by David Lynch was played by José Ferrer. Walken’s is the third important signing of this continuation after those of Florence Pugh (“Don’t worry dear”) as Princess Irulan Corrino and Austin Butler (“Elvis”) as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, the youngest nephew of Barn Vladimir Harkonnen, who has chosen him as Na-Baron, his successor in House Harkonnen. The three join a cast that will once again be led by Timothe Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Javier Bardem, Dave Bautista, Josh Brolin and Stellan Skarsgrd. For his part, Denis Villeneuve will return to direct the film from a script written again by Eric Roth and Jon Spaihts. Filming of this continuation will begin in Budapest next summer with a view to its premiere, this time “only in theaters”, on October 20, 2023, both in the United States and in Spain. The film is a Legendary Pictures production distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures. We have been able to see Walken recently in the first season of ‘separation‘, the wonderful Apple TV + series created by Dan Erickson with the complicity of Ben Stiller and Aoife Mcardle as directors. Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, John Turturro, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, Dichen Lachman and Tramell Tillman complete the main cast of this highly recommended series that, after becoming one of the television phenomena of 2022, has already been renewed for a second season. brand new next year.

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