‘Dune: Part Two’ ending outlined: What comes subsequent for Paul and Chani?

After the sizable three hours of spice, sandworms, and Sardaukar that is Dune: Part Two, it’s in all probability you’ll well moreover just ruin up with some questions. Given the film’s cataclysmic ending, your greatest one could well accurate be, “What within the sphere comes subsequent?” Or, “When will director Denis Villeneuve start taking pictures a third Dune movie, because I need it pronto?”

Not like Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), I will be capable to’t behold through the storms of time and give you any foresight on the timeline of Villeneuve’s subsequent strikes. (Even supposing he has said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that the script for a third Dune is almost done.) As Mashable’s resident Dune-head, what I can terminate is offer up some perception as to why Paul goes corpulent quandary despot, elaborate any of the more granular questions it’s in all probability you’ll well moreover just maintain, and dig into what we can search files from from an adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune Messiah.

From Paul’s fight towards Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen (Austin Butler) to Chani’s (Zendaya) sport-altering top resolution, let’s bag into the ending of Dune: Part Two.

Paul embraces the position of Lisan al-Gaib.

The Bene Gesserit propaganda in regards to the Lisan al-Gaib, a messianic settle who will free the Fremen, haunts Paul throughout Dune: Part Two. If he takes on the title, he could well moreover maintain a bigger likelihood at getting revenge on Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV (Christopher Walken) for sanctioning the assault that destroyed Residence Atreides. Yet he would moreover be taking regulate of Arrakis’s indigenous Fremen other folks, betraying Chani, and kickstarting the holy battle he sees in his visions of the prolonged flee. Because of these visions, Paul spends many of the film fearing his new worshippers and battling towards the inevitable. He is conscious of that if he goes to the south of Arrakis and meets the fundamentalist Fremen living there (a new addition by Villeneuve and co-writer Jon Spaihts), there shall be no stopping the oncoming jihad.

On the opposite hand, the appearance of the brutal Feyd-Rautha on Arrakis proves catastrophic for the Northern Fremen. When Feyd’s forces homicide Sietch Tabr, Paul realizes that victory will handiest come if he strengthens his prescience. To terminate that, he must trudge south and drink the Water of Life — the spice-rich bile of a drowned toddler sandworm — that handiest Reverend Moms can drink. Upon doing so, he discovers that his mother Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) is the daughter of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård), that manner that he shares blood with the mortal enemy of Residence Atreides. The revelation unlocks a slender path ahead for Paul to overcome the encroaching Harkonnens and Imperial forces. But as he tells Jessica, the diagram in which they take care of shall be by being Harkonnens — in other phrases, by being monsters themselves.

So, at a assembly of the Fremen leaders, Paul does the frightening thing he’d continuously feared and claims the title of Lisan al-Gaib. By doing so, he asserts his dominance over the entire Fremen inhabitants and prepares to make use of them in a single closing stand towards the Emperor and the Harkonnens.

Paul and the Fremen fight the Harkonnens and Imperial Sardaukar for Arrakis.

Emperor Shaddam IV and his daughter Princess Irulan (Florence Pugh) advance on Arrakis to answer Paul’s play for the throne (and to to scold the Harkonnens for mucking up spice manufacturing). Because of an enormous storm, the Atreides family atomics, and the could well of sandworms, Paul and his Fremen forces make easy work of the Harkonnens and the Emperor’s Sardaukar troopers. In the fight, Paul kills Baron Harkonnen, whereas Gurney Halleck (Josh Brolin) takes down Rabban Harkonnen (Dave Bautista).

But Paul is just not accurate battling for regulate of Arrakis. He needs the Emperor to face consequences for his makes an attempt to brand out Residence Atreides. He challenges the Emperor for the throne, and Feyd steps up to be Shaddam’s champion. The 2 face off in a knife duel to the dying — known as Kanly within the books — which Paul narrowly wins. In beating the Emperor’s champion, he moreover beats the Emperor, as a result of this reality allowing him to make a selection his intention.

What’s subsequent for the Harkonnens and the Emperor?

Feyd’s dying marks the discontinue of Residence Harkonnen as we comprehend it, nonetheless the bloodline is preserved by Marie, Feyd’s child with Girl Margot Fenring (Léa Seydoux) who is but to be born. On the opposite hand, since she handiest appears to be like in Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson’s new Paul of Dune, make not search files from to maintain a examine her pop up in Dune Messiah anytime rapidly. The Harkonnens, with all their bald, freaky villainy, are gone.

Develop not deem for a 2d that the accurate guys maintain won, though. At this point, Paul is as removed from a hero as they arrive. He takes Princess Irulan as his wife and forces the Emperor to kiss his ring — with a bratty stomp in addition! No matter his conceal of vitality, the opposite Mountainous Homes of the Landsraad don’t seem to be grateful for Paul’s upward push. They refuse to catch Paul’s ascendancy, at which point Paul utters four chilling phrases: “Send them to paradise.” Basically, atomize all of them. The holy battle Paul refrained from for months within the ruin begins in earnest.

Paul’s expose to the zealous Fremen is fundamentally a new addition by Villeneuve and Spaihts. In Herbert’s work, the jihad begins within the years between Dune and Dune Messiah, unseen by the reader. Here, the selection to maintain Paul explicitly tell the battle himself emphasizes his turn in the direction of exploiting the Fremen and oppressing the Imperium. Or not it’s handiest a color of what is to come, nonetheless it’s horrific ample that Chani leaves him and the Fremen and sets outs on her non-public.

Where is Chani going?

The top shot of Dune: Part Two is just not one in all Paul embracing his new vitality, nonetheless slightly of a furious, obvious Chani on the brink of lumber a sandworm off into the desolate tract, far off from Paul and his conquering forces. Her departure marks a major shift from the customary Dune, the put she stood by Paul’s side through thick and skinny.

Even supposing this ending could well moreover very successfully be a shock for guide followers, Dune: Part Two does mark at Chani’s new path throughout. She’s more defiant of Paul and more skeptical of the Lisan al-Gaib prophecy, nonetheless that would not terminate her from loving him. Per chance most telling is a line shared between them in a romantic 2d: “You should well by no manner lose me, Paul Atreides,” Chani says. “No longer as prolonged as you remain who it’s in all probability you’ll well moreover presumably be.” Obviously, by the discontinue of Dune: Part Two, Paul is no longer the Paul Atreides Chani came to know and like. He is the Lisan al-Gaib, the Kwisatz Haderach, and her other folks’s latest oppressor. There is nothing for Chani nonetheless bother if she stays with him.

So, the put is she going now? Again, in Herbert’s work she stays with Paul throughout, so it is a new twist from Villeneuve and Spaihts. Per chance she’ll take care of correct to her warrior roots and work to fight towards Paul. On the opposite hand, since he’s amplified his prescience, and since he has your entire Fremen at his support, this could well also be basically the most uphill of uphill battles. Might well perchance Chani muster up a resistance force of her non-public?

What’s subsequent for Dune?

Chani leaving Paul is the top swap between Herbert’s books and Villeneuve’s movies, but it helps underscore Paul’s brutal betrayal of the chums — now followers — he’d made on Arrakis. A quantity of than this shift, many of the pieces are in intention for Dune Messiah, the 2d guide within the Dune series and the film Villeneuve has proposed as concluding his Dune trilogy. With out getting too deep into spoilers, here is what it’s in all probability you’ll well well search files from from the relaxation of Paul’s story.

Dune Messiah picks up 12 years after Paul becomes Emperor. The jihad rages on, the Fremen maintain conquered worthy of the universe in Paul’s name, and 61 billion other folks are dead. Paul makes an attempt to make use of his powers to lead humanity down the path of least destruction, nonetheless there are forces at play towards him. The Bene Gesserit maintain crafted a position to dethrone him, one who functions the involvement of Princess Irulan. (While it’s in all probability you’ll well moreover presumably be irritated we didn’t bag worthy Pugh in this movie, it’s in all probability you’ll well be happy to know she’s a major player going ahead.) Herbert introduces a new society within the Tleilaxu as successfully, whose genetic manipulation roughly resurrects a persona we misplaced within the first Dune.

Paul’s sister Alia Atreides (Anya Taylor-Pleasure) moreover plays a worthy bigger position in Dune Messiah, particularly brooding about how little we behold of her in Dune: Part Two. Because of Jessica ingesting the Water of Life whereas pregnant, Alia has your entire capabilities of a completely knowledgeable Bene Gesserit Reverend Mom, making her a treasured asset to Paul in his makes an attempt to stay in vitality.

Then there’s the matter of Chani. She and Paul are quiet very worthy collectively in Dune Messiah, although he’s married to Princess Irulan. Their relationship, and Paul’s makes an attempt to offer protection to her from damage, are on the coronary heart of the unconventional. Yet their separation on the discontinue of Dune: Part Two complicates this side of the story, and can maintain bigger consequences down the line, adaptation-sensible.

Paul does repeat Jessica that he’s foreseen Chani coming to attain his choices, so there’s an alternate they’ll reconcile in Villeneuve’s pick on Dune Messiah. But since Paul’s prescience is just not continuously correct, is this imaginative and prescient sure to come to pass? Can Chani in fact forgive Paul after all the pieces he’s done? Or will Villeneuve leave extra from Herbert’s work in the case of Chani’s destiny? We could well moreover just not bag the answers to these questions except the free up of a in all probability Dune Messiah, so that you can that I say: “Let the sequels float.”

Dune: Part Two is now in theaters.