‘Dune: Part 2’ Eyeing ‘Elvis’ Star Austin Butler To Play Feyd-Rautha
The casting process for the upcoming Dune sequel continues.
According to Deadline, the studio is currently in negotiations with Austin Butler to play the role of Feyd-Rautha, the nephew of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and heir to the Harkonnen House. In the novel, he is as cruel and despicable as his uncle, and according to Deadline, he’s expected to play a major part in the sequel. This is one of three major parts the studio is currently casting — the other two are Emperor Shaddam IV and her daughter, Princess Irulan. Florence Pugh is currently in negotiations to play the latter, and we could find out who the studio is eyeing for the Emperor within the next week. Sting famously played Feyd-Rautha in the 1984 adaptation by David Lynch.
Butler may be familiar to some audience members as Tex, from Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Shortly after the release of that movie, WB picked him to play Elvis Presley in the biopic from Baz Luhrmann, which is set to debut on June 24 in the States, arriving two days earlier, on June 22, in many international theaters. The movie is rumored to be opening at the Cannes Film Festival in late May. Check out the electrifying trailer for that movie here.
Production is eyeing a summer 2022 start, but as we learned this week with the Florence Pugh news, it could be delayed due to the ongoing armed conflict in Europe. Villeneuve is currently hard at work finalizing the script for the sequel — Pugh is expected to receive the latest draft any day now, and Butler is probably in a similar situation.
Dune: Part 2 will debut exclusively in theaters on October 23, 2023. Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya, and Javier Bardem are all returning from the first movie, which crossed the $400M mark at the worldwide box office despite debuting on HBO Max simultaneously in the U.S.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
