Villeneuve's Dune: Part One (2019)

Vanity Fair is giving us our first images of Dune.
A First Look at Timothée Chalamet in Dune

Yesterday was an image of Paul (Timothée Chalamet) on Caladan.
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They are doing a four part series. Today we get to see what the stilsuits look like.
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I think the suits look great. Much closer to what I saw in my head when reading the book. Great to see the hoods and facemasks.
 
Boneman said:
I do hope that's the older Paul, not the one we meet as the story opens - 13 years old and small for his age, Reverend mother said... He's taller than his mum, in that picture.
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I really don't want to deprive you of your hopes, but... to quote from the text of the 1st article:
"In the shot above, the transport ships descend to take the Atreides leadership to their new destination."
It looks like the picture concerns the younger Paul.
 
A "small" 15-year-old doing the things Paul does in the book would look pretty ridiculous on screen. I think they did the best they could, hiring someone in his early 20s who looks like he's around 16.

Paul's age is also pretty irrelevant to the story. Both the Lynch movie and Sci-Fi mini-series cast someone in their mid-20s and it didn't really make any difference.
 
In some ways his high level of training, skill and competence would be hard to pull off in a spotty teenager aged character. It would take a very very good actor to pull it off and likely some additions to the story to present more of his early life to really drum home how he's been born to rule and trained by the best of the best his House could provide. That level of training and the idea of basically moulding a child into a role is something we've mostly lost in the modern world with our approach to school seeing the old apprenticing systems fall to one side. Even today we'd expect an apprentice to start at 15-16 instead of doing A-levels rather than already having had 10+ years of training by that stage.

So I can see justification in shifting him a bit to young adult. Plus, as noted, its not really something that ever comes out in the story. If anything I suspect many readers end up imagining him being older without even thinking of it since his age really only comes up very early on.
 
Narkalui said:
When I read it I had to continuously remind myself that he was 15 and shrink him down slightly in my imagination
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I think one thing that really helps him stand taller is that he's treated just like an adult. From what I recall (and its been a while) he's never really treated like a child/teen by those around him. Then again he also doesn't act with your "expected" teenage outbursts and such. So it all reinforces a much more mature attitude. It's perhaps closer to what we might expect from a medieval setting or even further back. Ergo when maturity was much sooner than modern developed countries have it today.
 
These photos are really good news. I, for one, cannot wait to see it.
 
Josh Brolin looks the business as Gurney Hallack. Love the look of the armour. Whatever else we get we know we are going to be looking at a visual feast.
 
I have to admit that I'm not blown away by these pictures. The stillsuits look as they should and probably have to look. House Atriedes look like the board of directors of a Stalinist tractor factory. The armour is quite good. Otherwise I'll wait and see, but purely on the basis of these few pictures, I prefer the visual style of the Lynch version.
 
Toby Frost said:
I have to admit that I'm not blown away by these pictures. The stillsuits look as they should and probably have to look. House Atriedes look like the board of directors of a Stalinist tractor factory. The armour is quite good. Otherwise I'll wait and see, but purely on the basis of these few pictures, I prefer the visual style of the Lynch version.
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I love Lynch's visual style.

I don't like the armour myself. It seems out of place. Too much bulk for the desert. Nice comparison of the Atreides to a Stalinist factory. Very funny. :)
 
More seriously, the Houses are militaristic and family-based, and so the nods to Prussian-style aristocracy in Lynch's House Atreides make sense (on my first reading, I imagined that they were like Tudors or a big Renaissance family). Similarly, the design of House Harkonnen, with rubbery armour and underclothing that looks like bandages, feels unnatural and unhealthy. I'd be interested to see what they do with the Harkonnens, and how caricatured and freakish they end up being.
 
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