Jason Momoa may have just found himself in hot water after dropping a major bombshell about an upcoming film.
The 45-year-old has commanded huge roles in a string of franchises, including Aquaman, Fast and Furious and Dune – he played Duncan Idaho in the latter, alongside Zendaya, Timothee Chalamet, Oscar Isaac and Rebecca Ferguson.
Despite dying at the end of the first instalment, in 2021, he has now confirmed that his character will actually stage a surprise return in Dune 3, aka Dune: Messiah.
During an appearance on the Today show this morning, to promote his Minecraft flick, talk turned to Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi series.
‘Your character died in the first Dune movie… But in the books, he comes back as a clone,’ presenter Craig Melvin probed. ‘Dune: Messiah is set to start production later this year. Have you got a call?’
‘Well, I’m not sure if I’m going to get in trouble or not,’ Jason said, trying to figure out how much he was allowed to say.
‘But it’s the same thing like Game of Thrones, you know what I mean? If you didn’t read the books, it’s not my fault, right?’
‘Yeah, I’m going to be coming back.’
‘Duncan Idaho is making a comeback?,’ Craig clarified, to which he added: ‘I’m making a comeback. You heard it here first.
‘You got me in trouble!’
Dune hit the big screen four years ago, with John Brolin, Dave Bautista, Javier Bardem and Stellan Skarsgård also joining the star-studded cast.
Jason’s Duncan served as a mentor to Paul Atreides (Timothee), but died at the end of the film in a bid to protect him.
While the character didn’t return for the 2024 sequel, all eyes will be on how Denis and co incorporate his arrival in Dune: Messiah – which is slated to be released next year.
In the books, via Collider, Duncan is resurrected as a genetically engineered clone, and will have a pivotal part to play in a conspiracy against his mentee.
Shedding light on the third movie, Denis insisted that it is ‘not a trilogy’, vowing that all three projects have their own ‘identity’.
‘First, It’s important that people understand that for me, it was really a diptych,’ he told Vanity Fair last year. ‘It was really a pair of movies that will be the adaptation of the first book.
‘That’s done and that’s finished. If I do a third one, which is in the writing process, it’s not like a trilogy. It’s strange to say that, but if I go back there, it’s to do something that feels different and has its own identity.’
‘Listen, if Dune: Messiah happens, it will have been many years for me on Arrakis, and I would love to do something else,’ he added of future projects beyond the third flick.
‘I think that it would be a good idea for me to make sure that, in Messiah, there are the seeds in the project if someone wants to do something else afterwards, because they are beautiful books.
‘They are more difficult to adapt. They become more and more esoteric. It’s a bit more tricky to adapt, but I’m not closing the door. I will not do it myself, but it could happen with someone else.’
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