For the ones who had read the Dune novels, they knew from the moment Jason Momoa’s Duncan Idaho was introduced on Planet Caladan what was going to happen. For the ones who didn’t read it, do you really think Duncan Idaho is dead? Well, think again. Recently the Aquaman star stopped by TODAY and as he discussed his new film, A Minecraft Movie, where he plays Garrett Garrison, aka The Garbage Man, his fans made funny gestures from behind the glass to steal the spotlight from him.
While he was at it, he threw some light on the upcoming Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Messiah, where he will be there, which he recently confirmed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, in the film if the director doesn’t have any plans to give the story a spin. He already did it with Dr. Liet Kynes; we just don’t want him to do the same with Jason Momoa’s character. To add to that, he told TODAY that,
Well, I’m not sure if I’m going to get in trouble or not, but it is the same thing as the Game of Thrones, right? If you didn’t read the books, that’s not my fault, right?
We can tell you, he is a much more important character than Paul Atreides in the story, and we shall see it soon.
How Can Jason Momoa Return in Dune: Messiah if He is Already Dead?
Frank Herbert, the writer of the original Dune novels, took his last breath on February 11, 1986, but before that, he had given the world one of the greatest plot devices the world has witnessed: gholas. So basically, gholas are clones with the consciousness of a person. So when someone dies, people in the world Herbert created can fuse that consciousness back into a cloned body of that individual. Duncan Idaho was resurrected hundreds of times throughout this story.
That’s something like a concept we recently saw in Robert Pattinson’s Mickey 17; every time he died, they just printed out a new version of him. Though Dune didn’t really have printing machines like Pattinson’s film had. Instead, they have axlotl tanks where they can grow a humanoid using the cells of a deceased person. So, in a way, nobody really dies in it. And you cannot even say they are a different person—well, they are initially, but their memories return eventually.
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Anurag Batham is a Writer at Thumb Wars zeroed in on video games but will also throw himself up on anything in association with anime and cinema. As with his favorite video games, give him anything with a linear story, be it Call of Duty or Braid, and he will be happy. He think of stories as food and wants to feed his readers something nutritious, food for thought.
