Newcomer Nakoa-Wolf Momoa and Silo‘s Ida Brooke have boarded Dune 3, sources have confirmed with Deadline, becoming the first additions to the cast to emerge in months.
Reps for Legendary declined to comment. In the new film from Warner Bros. and Legendary, the pair are set to play Leto II and Ghanima, the twin offspring of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and Chani (Zendaya), born after the events of the original Frank Herbert novel. The project will mark the big-screen debut of Momoa, who is expected to be joined in the cast by his father, Jason Momoa, with the latter playing a resurrected ghola of Duncan Idaho. Like Nakoa-Wolf, Brooke is a relative newcomer, who has heretofore been seen only in Apple’s sci-fi drama Silo and the film The Primrose Railway Children.
Chalamet and Zendaya are just two of the cast members expected to return for the next Dune film, though a formal announcement on others has yet to be made, even with production expected to soon be underway. Robert Pattinson entered talks for a villain role in the threequel earlier this year, as we were first to report.
Dune is Legendary’s expansive, multi-format sci-fi universe based on the Hugo Award-winning novel series by Frank Herbert, which has so far spawned two hit films: 2021’s Dune: Part One and last year’s Dune: Part Two, both from filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, which earned a combined $1.12 billion at the global box office and won eight Oscars from 15 nominations, with Best Picture noms for both. The universe’s most recent entry is the prequel TV series Dune: Prophecy, set 10,000 years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, which premiered on Max in November and has been renewed for a second season.
It’s expected that Villeneuve’s third and final Dune film will adapt Herbert’s novel Dune Messiah, set 12 years after the events of Dune, which follows Atreides’ struggles with the consequences of his Fremen-led jihad upon his ascension to Emperor Muad’Dib. A release date and official title for the new film haven’t yet been disclosed.
Brooke is repped by Gersh and Tales Talent Management. Nexus Point News was first to the castings.
