Baseless Dune Part 3 Speculation

 The Dune Part 3 trailer was released today!! Let's be normal about it, together. If you are reading this I'm going to assume you've read both Dune and Dune: Messiah as well as watched the previous two Denis Villeneuve movies. I'm spoiling everything.

The first thing that I immediately noticed was Chani! 

My first thought was that this is a continuation of the ending of Part 2, but Chani has a new scar on her face in this shot. Meaning Chani might have agency in the story!!! She might do something!! A lot of her role in the book is her trying to conceive and then giving birth and then dying. It would be strange for her to participate in the Jihad given her feelings in the second movie, but this seems to imply that she is still active in some way as a military leader or Fremen warrior.

Also interesting is Paul speaking with Lady Jessica in this scene from the trailer. 

Paul is wearing his Atreides dress outfit and his mother is.. present in the story? A change from Messiah, where Lady Jessica is all but entirely absent. Since lady Jessica is here, I would bet this is a new scene on Caladan, after it's reclaimed by the Jihad? Especially relevant as, in the book, it's mentioned that Lady Jessica spends nearly all of her time on Caladan, and the conversation in the trailer is focused on the former Duke Leto.

There are some scenes of a battle on a distant, rainy planet, with a shot of Stilgar killing an enemy combatant.

I think this is most likely in the beginning setup/visions. Where you learn of the destructive path of the Jihad, the billions killed, the planets cleansed. A nice mood setter before the real movie begins. BUT it could also be from my absolute favorite scene in the book, when Scytale meets Farok. 

Farok describes seeing a real Sea for the first time. 

"There was a sunset," Farok said presently. "One of the elder artists might have painted such a sunset. It had red in it the color of the glass in my bottle. There was gold... blue. It was on the world they call Enfeil, the one where I led my legion to victory. We came out of a mountain pass where the air was sick with water. I could scarcely breathe it. And there below me was the thing my friends had told me about: water as far as I could see and farther. We marched down to it. I waded out into it and drank. It was bitter and made me ill. But the wonder of it has never left me."

The entire scene is phenomenal and sets up a lot of the book's ideas around natural and unnatural sight, but that passage always stuck with me as having an ethereal beauty to it. 

Messiah is my favorite book in the series. I believe that if you liked Dune you are doing yourself a disservice by not reading Messiah. Thus far I have loved how Villeneuve's changes to the books have allowed the movies to establish a distinct identity while maintaining the themes of the original books. I literally can't wait for December 18th. If you know me in real life I'm super sorry in advance for how annoying I'm going to be.