Timothée Chalamet's role in Dune: Part Three is up against Robert Pattinson's villainous role in the film, which debuted its trailer on March 17. Pattinson debuted a dramatic transformation as Scytale, a menacing shapeshifting shapeshifter. The film's trailer also featured Pattinson as the leader of the Dune Messiah, a conspiracy group that plots to plot against Timothée's character Paul Atreides. The director Denis Villeneuve shared his experiences with the cast and described the film as a "true act of cinema" and a "dream" after a lengthy production process that included over 150 production days across the three films. Despite the film's intense story and action-packed, tense and muscular, the trailer shows Paul asking his mom Lady Jessica if he'll survive through his mission of killing his enemies.