Jason Momoa is on the brink of get again into character for Dune: Half Three and filmed himself shaving his facial hair.
In a brand new video posted on social media, the Aquaman actor mentioned the final time he had shaved was for the primary movie.
“Just for you, Denis,” Momoa says within the video, giving a shoutout to Dune director Denis Villeneuve.
After Momoa shaved off his facial hair, he checked out himself and mentioned, “Goddamnit, I hate it!”
Dune was first launched in 2021, the place Momoa performed the position of Duncan Idaho, a swordmaster of Home Atreides and a mentor to Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides. Momoa didn’t seem within the sequel, launched in 2024, however will return for Dune: Half Three, which is anticipated to open in theaters on December 18, 2026.
The third movie within the Dune movie collection is predicated on the 1969 novel Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert, which follows Atreides’ struggles with the results of his Fremen-led jihad upon his ascension to Emperor Muad’Dib.
Momoa might be joined by his son Nakoa-Wolf Momoa in Dune: Half Three, who was lately forged alongside Ida Brooke as Leto II and Ghanima, the dual offspring of Paul Atreides (Chalamet) and Chani (Zendaya).
Deadline reported in April that Robert Pattinson can be becoming a member of the movie collection in a brand new position, with sources saying he would tackle the villain position of Scytale.
Final yr, Villeneuve mentioned that this third movie can be his final entry within the Dune saga, telling Self-importance Truthful, “It’s necessary that individuals perceive that for me, it was actually a diptych. It was actually a pair of flicks that would be the adaptation of the primary ebook. That’s finished and that’s completed. If I do a 3rd one, which is within the writing course of, it’s not like a trilogy. It’s unusual to say that, but when I am going again there, it’s to do one thing that feels totally different and has its personal id.”
The filmmaker mentioned that he “would like to do one thing else” following the third installment of the saga.
