Jason Momoa’s teen son, Nakoa-Wolf Momoa, is gearing as much as make his appearing debut.
Nakoa, 16, and actress Ida Brooke have been forged in Dune 3 as Leto II and Ghanima, Deadline reported on Tuesday, June 17. Leto II and Ghanima are the youngsters of lead characters Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and Chani (Zendaya.)
Nakoa shall be showing alongside his father, who shall be “taking part in a resurrected ghola of Duncan Idaho,” per the outlet.
Us Weekly has reached out to Warner Bros. for remark.
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Jason, 45, shares Nakoa and daughter Lola Iolani Momoa, 17, with ex-wife Lisa Bonet, to whom he was married from 2017 to 2024. The actor portrayed Duncan Idaho within the first Dune movie.
Denis Villeneuve will return to direct the third installment, which serves as a follow-up to 2021’s Dune and 2024’s Dune: Half Two. He beforehand shared that he was within the “writing zone” for Dune 3 whereas talking with Deadline in October 2024.
Villeneuve, 57, stated that he considered the primary two movies “like one entity.”
“It’s a film made in two components. It’s completed, it’s carried out,” the director famous.
Lola Iolani Momoa, Jason Momoa and Nakoa-Wolf Momoa Kevin Winter/Getty Pictures
He referenced the story of Frank Herbert’s ebook Dune: Messiah, the second of his six Dune novels.
“Like Herbert did with Dune: Messiah, I feel it’ll be a terrific thought to do one thing utterly totally different,” Villeneuve stated in regards to the plot of the third movie. “The story takes place like 12 years after the place we left the characters on the finish of Half Two. Their journey, their story is totally different this time, and that’s why I at all times say that whereas it’s the identical world it’s a brand new movie with new circumstances.”
Whereas there are six books within the Dune collection written by Frank, Villeneuve stated that he “at all times envisioned three motion pictures” whereas talking with Entertainment Weekly in October 2021.
“It’s not that I wish to do a franchise, however that is Dune, and Dune is a large story,” he stated. “With a purpose to honor it, I feel you would want not less than three motion pictures. That might be the dream. To observe Paul Atreides and his full arc can be good.”
After Frank’s dying, his son, Brian Herbert, collaborated with writer Kevin J. Anderson on 20 extra books within the Dune universe. There’s no telling whether or not or not there shall be different Dune variations after the third movie.
“Herbert wrote six books, and the extra he was writing, the extra it was getting psychedelic,” Villeneuve stated. “So I don’t know the way a few of them may very well be tailored. One factor at a time.”
Sources beforehand advised The Hollywood Reporter that there was chatter about doubtlessly casting Robert Pattinson as a villain within the third Dune movie in April 2025 however “no supply has been made to Pattinson.”