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Dave Bautista confirms he ’ll be flirt the character of Rabban Harkonnen in Denis Villeneuve’sDunereboot . news show of Bautista ’s castingbroke back in January with the wrestler turned actor join a star - studded cast that then include Timothée Chalamet ( Call Me By Your Name ) as Dune ’s lead friend Paul Atreides and Rebecca Ferguson ( foreign mission : out of the question – Fallout ) as his mother Lady Jessica .
Since then , Villeneuve has been steady add more natural endowment to his cast includingOscar success Javier Bardem(No Country for Old Men ) as Stilgar and Thanos actorJosh Brolin as Gurney Halleck . curtly after Bautista ’s casting was confirmed , it was announced that Swedish worker Stellan Skarsgård would be taking on the role ofDune’svillain Baron Vladimir Harkonnen . rumour swirl that the character Bautista would toy was closely linked to Stellan Skarsgård ’s office .
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Now we can substantiate that Bautista ’s character is indeed interrelate to Skarsgård ’s after the worker carry a delineation onInstagramof a director ’s chair with the name ‘ Rabban Harkonnen ’ printed across it . Rabban Harkonnen is the sadistic but rather stupid nephew of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and aids his uncle in his malign design to take down the Atreides syndicate and put on power over the planet of Arrakis . In David Lynch ’s 1984 braggart screen adaption ofDunethe character was played by recent actor Paul Smith ( Robert Altman’sPopeye ) and by Swiss player László I. Kish in Syfy ’s 2000 miniseries version .
Rabban Harkonnen is a rather modest part , at least in Frank Herbert ’s original 1965 novel and David Lynch ’s grown cover version . However , since it ’s been affirm thatVilleneuve’sDunereboot will have at least one sequelit ’s potential that Bautista may get a little more screenland time than previous actors who have run Rabban Harkonnen .
Regardless of the size of his role , it ’ll certainly be a welcome variety of pace for Bautista . recently , the doer is best known for his role as loveable titan Drax the Destroyer in theGuardians of the GalaxyandAvengersmovies . While play a character reference that everybody adores no doubt has its perquisite , it ’ll be interesting to see Bautista take on a totally different role with a largely unlikable fictional character like Rabban Harkonnen .
Villeneuve’sDunehas a release engagement rig for November 2020 , so we ’ve still got a foresightful time to wait until we see what Bautista does with his newly confirm part . In the lag , Bautista ’s fans can catch him in the forthcoming action comediesStuberandMy Spy .
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