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Josh Brolin is called a doting father and film star of epic proportions, however above all, the person is a gifted wordsmith.
Brolin – who performs Gurney Halleck within the Denis Villeneuve “Dune” films – took a extra inventive method to selling the franchise’s second installment “Dune: Part Two” this week, by writing a novel abstract of the movie on social media that reads much less like formulaic promotional prose and extra like a Hollywood-themed riddle.
“DUNE 2 launch is lower than TWO WEEKS!!! Robotic Woman and Wonka fall in love. Then Elvis tries to f— all of it up whereas his dangerous dad floats in a pool of pond scum,” Brolin wrote on his Instagram web page Tuesday. “The WWE dude from Gardians (sic) will get tremendous pissed whereas Midsomer (sic) hottie places the eyes on Wonka Obi Wan simply after his Mother will get caught taking LSD in a sandy lavatory. Chigurh nonetheless doesnt just like the man from The Goonies.”
Confused? Let’s take a second to decode which of Brolin’s “Dune: Half Two” co-stars he mentions and what on earth – or Arrakis – he’s speaking about on this caption.
To start out, we’re going to presume “Robotic woman” is referring to Zendaya, primarily based on this futuristic ensemble she wore to the London premiere of “Dune: Half Two” final week. And “Wonka” is clearly Timothée Chalamet, who starred because the famed chocolatier within the 2023 movie and leads “Dune: Half Two” as Paul Atreides. (Each “Dune” and “Wonka” are distributed by Warner Bros. Photos, which like CNN is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.)
“Elvis,” after all, is Austin Butler – who nonetheless can’t seem to shake that accent after starring in 2022’s Baz Luhrmann biopic on the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll – and Brolin’s point out of “dangerous dad” is probably going a reference to Stellan Skarsgård’s evil “Dune” character Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (who actually does float in a pool of scum).
That “WWE dude” from the “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise is Dave Bautista – who performs Glossu Rabban within the “Dune” universe – and the “hottie” is Florence Pugh, who starred within the horror movie “Midsommar.”
With us to this point? Nice, transferring on. Rebecca Ferguson is the “Mother” that Brolin mentions in reference to a sure psychedelic, which within the “Dune” universe is definitely a fictional drug known as Melange.
To complete, Javier Bardem performed a the villainous Anton Chigurh in “No Nation for Previous Males” (and received an Oscar for it), and Brolin himself is the “man from The Goonies.” Each actors, after all, determine within the second “Dune” installment, hitting theaters subsequent week.
After the cryptic references in his put up, Brolin then centered on the magic of the flicks to carry issues dwelling. “I imply who doesn’t wish to see all that on IMAX,” he continued to put in writing, happening to induce his followers to “commune once more and expertise that tremendous feeling of when the lights go down… and DUNE 2 consumes you.”
Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux and Charlotte Rampling spherical out the all-star solid of “Dune: Half 2,” which is the sequel to 2021’s “Dune” and focuses on the rise of Chalamet’s heroic Paul Atreides.
The film franchise is predicated on the traditional 1965 “Dune” sci-fi novel by the late Frank Herbert.
“Dune: Half Two” will premiere in theaters on March 1.