Jason Momoa has confirmed that he will reprise his role as Duncan Idaho in the upcoming third installment of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune franchise. The actor made the announcement during a Monday appearance on TODAY with Craig Melvin.
“I’m making a comeback,” Momoa said. “You heard it first, right here with you, baby.” Warner Bros. did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Variety.
Momoa first portrayed Duncan Idaho in 2021’s Dune, where his character, a swordmaster and mentor to Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides, sacrifices himself to help Paul and his mother escape from Sardaukar soldiers. In Frank Herbert’s Dune book series, Duncan is later resurrected as a clone. When asked if his return would follow this storyline, Momoa joked, “Well, I’m not sure if I’m going to get in trouble or not, but it’s the same thing like Game of Thrones, you know what I mean? If you didn’t read the books, it’s not my fault, right? Yeah, there’s going to be … I’m going to be coming back.”
In April 2024, Legendary confirmed that Dune 3 was officially in development following the success of Dune: Part 2, which grossed $711 million worldwide earlier that year.
Villeneuve, who directed the first two films, has previously stated that the third film, based on Herbert’s Dune: Messiah, won’t complete the trilogy. “For me, it was really a diptych,” Villeneuve said of the first two films. “It was really a pair of movies that will be the adaptation of the first book. That’s done and that’s finished. If I do a third one, it’s to do something that feels different and has its own identity.”
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