The forged of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune motion pictures is phenomenal. A listing of Hollywood’s most resounding names cherry-picked for his or her display screen presence and skill to shoulder the huge weight of Frank Herbert’s supply materials. Jason Momoa suits the invoice as few do.
The 44-year-old actor, who rose to fame on a equally hefty book-to-screen adaptation as Recreation of Thrones‘ Khal Drogo, breathed life into the character of Duncan Idaho, Home Atreides‘ most expert soldier, pilot, and fighter.
What occurs to Duncan Idaho in Dune?
Within the first movie, we witness the shut bond between Duncan and Timothée Chalamet’s Duke Paul Atreides, who sees the older man as an idol and a brother determine. He’s fascinated by Duncan’s account of his time dwelling with the Fremen and asks to tag alongside on his missions.
When Arrakeen, the fortress stronghold on Arrakis and the Atreides’ new residence on the desert planet, is attacked by the Harkonnens and the Emperor’s troops, Duncan is without doubt one of the few who manages to flee, taking an ornithopter (the insect-shaped helicopters of Herbert’s fictional universe) with him. He later rescues Paul and his mom Girl Jessica from the desert, taking them to a Fremen hide-out in an outdated Botanical Testing Station.
The Emperor’s elite army pressure, the Sardaukar, finally finds them, and Duncan heroically sacrifices himself to save lots of Paul. He takes on a big group of the universe’s strongest troopers by himself, and holds out for a powerful period of time, earlier than finally succumbing to his wounds.
In his quick quantity of display screen time, Jason Momoa grew to become certainly one of Dune‘s stand-out performances as Duncan’s relationship with Paul offered a sort of comradery and vulnerability that’s uncommon in Herbert and Villeneuve’s epic-scaled house opera.
Does Duncan return for Dune: Half Two?
No. Following his demise, Duncan is just not introduced again for Dune: Half Two, not even through flashbacks. He’s barely even talked about by title within the movie, which is a disgrace contemplating how particular his friendship with Paul was within the first installment. However, his demise is finally avenged by the Duke-turned-Messiah and one other essential member of Home Atreides, regarded as useless within the 2021’s Dune.
His now-iconic battle salute, which Momoa himself got here up with as a nod to his son’s Kali coaching is, nonetheless, mimicked by Paul throughout one of the crucial intense battles in Half Two — a quiet but highly effective homage to a detailed buddy. “That’s a Kali transfer, the place you set your hand in your coronary heart and put it in your head. That’s to Timothée within the film, however that’s to my son in actual life,” Momoa informed IndieWire in 2021.
These accustomed to the supply materials know that, within the books a minimum of, Duncan’s demise on the Botanical Testing Station is just not the top for his character. We are going to hold it as imprecise as attainable in order to not destroy it for individuals who, in contrast to me, have efficiently fought off their curiosity to search out out what occurs in Dune Messiah, however let’s simply say we would see extra of Jason Momoa in Arrakis but.