Without the Harkonnen there is no Paul Atreides, in more ways than one ... idea that Harkonnens are a society that doesn’t like hair,” Villeneuve says. “They remove everything.

It is telling—for reasons beyond the dangling-carrot thrill of a cliffhanger—that the final frame of Dune: Part Two is not of Timothée Chalamet’s ascendant spiritual leader Paul Atreides, but of his ...