The first official look at Denis Villeneuve’s science-fiction tentpole “Dune” has arrived, courtesy of Vanity Fair.
The first photo released from the movie depicts Timothée Chalamet as protagonist Paul Atreides.
The character is seen walking on his native planet of Caladan while spaceships begin transporting his family to their new home, Arrakis.
Paul’s family has inherited ownership of Arrakis, a desert planet that is home to the world’s most valuable resource, a superhuman drug called “spice.” As the owners of Arrakis, the Atreides become the enemy of rival royal families and the planet’s indiginious population, a group of natives known as the Freman.“The immediately appealing thing about Paul was the fact that in a story of such detail and scale and world-building, the protagonist is on an anti-hero’s-journey of sorts,” Chalamet said to Vanity Fair about signing on to “Dune,” which marks the young
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