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EXCLUSIVE: Actor David Dastmalchian, who has appeared in films such as The Dark Knight, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Netflix’s Bird Box, has been cast to play Piter De Vries in Dune, Legendary’s Denis Villeneuve-directed film adaptation of Frank Herbert's bestselling novel. Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Dave…

All these Dune casting announcements have built up to Warner Bros. finally announcing that the Denis Villeneuve-directed Legendary production will hit theaters during the pre-Thanksgiving frame of Nov. 20, 2020. Dune will play in 3D and Imax. Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts, and Villeneuve adapted Frank Herbert’s classic…

Legendary is in negotiations for Aquaman star Jason Momoa to join the cast of Denis Villeneuve's film adaptation of Frank Herbert's bestselling novel Dune. Momoa joins an already stellar cast of Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin…

When Eric Roth was approached to work on A Star Is Born, his response wasn’t one of excitement, but of fear. “This had been done a lot of times, and I didn't know whether I could crack the code to make it special and modern,” the screenwriter says. “The fear was trying to do it again, [and] whether anybody was really…

Josh Brolin has joined the epic cast for the Denis Villeneuve-directed film adaptation of Frank Herbert's bestselling novel Dune. Legendary has assembled a lineup of Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling and Javier Bardem. The script was written by Villeneuve, Eric…

Legendary is negotiating with Oscar winner Javier Bardem to join Denis Villeneuve's film adaptation of Frank Herbert's bestselling novel Dune. He’ll star alongside Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgård and Charlotte Rampling. The script was written by Villeneuve, Eric Roth and Jon…

Former Disney star Zendaya (Shake It Up) is in early talks to join the cast of the Denis Villeneuve-directed Dune reboot which is setup at Legendary Entertainment. The word is she’s circling the role of Chani, the love interest of Paul Atreides played by Timothee Chalamet. Rebecca Ferguson, Dave Bautista, Stellan…

Oscar Isaac is in negotiations to join the cast of Dune, Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic. Deadline has confirmed the talks but no deal has been closed, we hear. If it makes, Isaac would play the father of Timothée Chalamet, who will star as Paul Atreides. Rebecca Ferguson, Dave Bautista…

EXCLUSIVE: Dave Bautista is set to join Timothée Chalamet and Rebecca Ferguson in Dune for Legendary. His role is being kept under wraps, but this reunites Bautista with director Denis Villeneuve. They worked together on Blade Runner 2049. Bautista is coming out of the contentiousness of standing tall last year for…

Timothée Chalamet had a meteoric rise last year, co-starring in two of last season’s most buzzed-about awards movies— Hostiles and Lady Bird—and landing an Oscar nomination for his lead in a third, Call Me by Your Name. But when he first met Nic Sheff, the journalist and recovering addict whose story he tells in Beauti…

Rebecca Ferguson is in negotiations to join the Denis Villeneuve-directed adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, Deadline has confirmed. The Mission: Impossible – Fallout star will join, as Deadline exclusively reported, Academy Award-nominated Timothee Chalamet, who will play Paul Atreides the hero (or anti-hero…

Canadian director Denis Villeneuve makes character-driven, darkly arresting, eclectic material that both perplexes and amazes simultaneously. And for quite some time, they were the type of arthouse pieces that typically begin their cinematic journeys at the Cannes Film Festival. But he was given the opportunity to…