Lea Seydoux joins Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two

French star Lea Seydoux is the most recent addition to the forged of filmmaker Denis Villeneuve‘s much-awaited Dune: Part Two. Seydoux, who has movies like Blue Is The Warmest Color, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Midnight In Paris and No Time To Die to her credit score, will play the function of Lady Margot within the sequel, reported Variety.

Dune: Part One, which was launched in October 2021 to common reward, was based mostly on creator Frank Herbert’s seminal 1965 novel.

It adopted the story of Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet), an excellent and gifted younger man born into an amazing future past his understanding, who should journey to Arrakis, essentially the most harmful planet within the universe to make sure the way forward for his household and his individuals.

Dune: Part Two will resume the place Part One left off, with Atreides preventing alongside the Fremen to free the desert planet of Arrakis from the grips of House of Harkonnen.

In Herbert’s novel, Lady Margot is an important ally to Paul Atreides in his struggle with the Harkonnens.

The makers are but to forged an actor for the a part of Count Fenring, who’s Lady Margot’s husband.

Chalamet in addition to his co-stars Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsgard and Dave Bautista are returning for the sequel.

Seydoux joins fellow newcomers Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan, Austin Butler and veteran actor Christopher Walken within the sequel.

Walken will play Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV, with Pugh and Butler taking up the roles of Princess Irulan, the Emperor’s daughter, and Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, the presumptive inheritor to the Harkonnen dynasty, respectively.

Part two of Dune is anticipated to begin manufacturing later this 12 months and has a launch date of October 20, 2023.

Jon Spaihts is returning to co-write the script with Villeneuve, who will direct and produce the sequel.

Seydoux most lately starred alongside Viggo Mortensen and Kristen Stewart in director David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future.