The factor about Sting’s efficiency as spiky-headed Harkonnen baddie Feyd-Rautha in 1984’s Dune is it’s type of inconceivable to comply with Sting’s efficiency as Feyd-Rautha in 1984’s Dune. It’s simply so weirdly attractive (okay, Bowie’s Goblin King in Labyrinth was capable of comply with it, however that’s it). I personally assumed that the character wasn’t in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune as a result of Sting was busy and he’s 70. However Feyd-Rautha will seem in Villeneuve’s Dune: Half Two, and Deadline reviews that Austin Butler is in negotiations to play him. It seems the subsequent rival whom Timothée Chalamet has to face can be performed by an Elvis impersonator, which is technically Butler’s job description now.

However right here’s the place issues get … spice-and. New York Occasions reporter Kyle Buchanan tweeted a hyperlink to the Deadline article and added that “additionally they checked out Harry Types and Tye Sheridan for this function …” That ellipsis has us going hmm … in a giant method. Did Villeneuve see Types’s efficiency in Eternals and go “Scrap it”? Did he watch The Card Counter and say, “That’s fairly sufficient household vengeance from Tye Sheridan, thanks”?

Elsewhere within the Duneiverse, Deadline reported on Tuesday that Florence Pugh is in negotiations to play Princess Irulan Corrino, eldest daughter of the Emperor and doable romantic rival to Zendaya. If Pugh is solid, they’ll contractually have to alter the spelling of the film to Dughne: Half Twugh.