Dune: Part Two is chock complete of deeply unusual images. The movie boasts giant sandworms, smart telepathic children in utero, Harkkonen coliseum jesters, vicious Austin Butler, and even evidence that stringed instruments makeitthrough well into the year 10,901! Still, the most batshit image from the Dune novels has yet to hit the huge screen. If you ask me, I wear’t think Warner Bros. nor director Denis Villeneuve are brave enough to provide it to audiences. Since there’s a possibility we might neverever see it, I needto take this chance to inform you about… the sandworm male.
Before we get into it, I needto alert you that we are about to getin heavy spoiler territory for Dune: Messiah and beyond. Following Dune: Part Two‘s cliffhanger, the 2nd book in the Dune series would definitely serve as the source product for the unannounced (but mostlikely) 3rd Dune film. Dune: Messiah introduces the character that will endupbeing the sandworm guy—I’ll discuss in a minute, I assure!—in subsequent Dune books, significance that we may requirement a 4th or a 5th movie to even see him. But as my colleague and number-one Dune fan Adrienne Westenfeld recommended, there’s a really great opportunity that we might see this monstrosity in Dune: Messiah‘s visions of the future. So, it’s your move, Warner Bros.
You might have currently seen the image flowing on social media. It’s not something you would forget. The art is included in old paperback variations of God Emperor of Dune, portraying an extremely phallic-looking worm with a human head. (Look listedbelow, if you attempt.) This male/worm/wiggly headache is Paul’s child, Leto II, and he’s quickly one of the most unnerving things I’ve ever seen. Putting him in a motionpicture would practically demand an NC-17 score. Forget Butler’s egghead! There’s no getting around the fact of Leto II: he’s a giant penis with a face.
To Frank Herbert’s credit, I think that images was precisely what he was going for. By satisfying the prophesy and endingupbeing emperor, Paul Atreides gavein to his worst fears and firedup a bloody holy war. Before we reach Leto’s starring turn in the 4th unique, God Emperor of Dune, Paul lastly discovers that violence begets more violence. Lost, he strolls into the desert and leaves his empire to his kids. Paul’s kid, Leto II, recognizes that the just method to conserve humankind is to endedupbeing a bane for all of mankind to hate and increase versus. So, he merges with the sandworms and endsupbeing a huge, never-ceasing, phallic-looking sandworm male. Somehow, the images is so damn silly that Herbert gets the message throughout.
As I scrolled through the social media discourse on Dune: Part Two this week, it appears that numerous theatergoers requirement this message as well. An worrying quantity of audiences did not walk away from the followup thinking that Dune is a caution versus positioning your trust in messianic figures. “Just read a actually baffling shortarticle calling out the white rescuer story of DUNE 2,” The Ringer writer Joanna Robinson published on X (formerly recognized as Twitter). “With regard….what? I get the responses to PART 1, however how much clearer might Denis haveactually been in PART 2?” I’ve likewise seen many TikT