Dune: Part Two found its Lady Margot with Léa Seydoux (No Time to Die), as reported by Deadline. She joins recently announced newcomers for the sci-fi epic with Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken, and Austin Butler (Elvis). They will join returning cast members Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, and Josh Brolin.
Production on the film, which will finish the story from its source material, will aim to begin this fall. The film will release on October 20th, 2023. Denis Villeneuve is returning to direct, produce, and write. Jon Spaihts returns to write too. Josh Grode, Herbert W. Gains, Brian Herbert, Byron Merritt, Kim Herbert, Thomas Tull, Spaihts, Richard P. Rubinstein, and John Harrison will executive produce. Mary Parent, Villeneuve, Cale Boyter, Tanya Lapointe, and Patrick McCormick will produce with Kevin J. Anderson as a creative consultant.
In the next half of Dune, Léa Seydoux will play Lady Margot. In Frank Herbert’s novel, Bene Gesserit wife of the Mentat Count Hasimir Fenring. She is a loyal and veteran servant of the Sisterhood.
Dune is one of the most beloved sci-fi novels of all time and is considered almost unadaptable. The Blade Runner 2049 director’s take had a stacked cast with stunning visual effects. The film was released in theaters and on HBO Max. It had an opening weekend of $41 million and grossed $400 million worldwide, with $108 million domestic. Out of its 10 Oscar nominations, it won six.
Léa Seydoux Cast in Dune After Already Established Success
Most recently, Léa Seydoux was in David Cronenberg’s (The Fly) Crimes of the Future. The sci-fi horror flick starred Viggo Mortensen, Kristen Stewart, and Scott Speedman (You). Last year she rounded out Daniel Craig’s run as James Bond in No Time to Die; she also joined him in the previous entry, Spectre. That same year, she was in the stacked cast of The French Dispatch with Benicio Del Toro, Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, and Chalamet.
Along side Dune, Léa Seydoux will be in the sci-fi film The Beast and period piece, Le Bal des Folles.