Gina Carano’s departure from The Mandalorian was a big scandal in 2021, but her character’s onscreen fate is more of a footnote. In the season 3 premiere on Wednesday, the show efficiently explained away Cara Dune’s absence—while also leaving things surprisingly open for her to return elsewhere. After playing a recurring role as Cara Dune …
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Is Cara Dune Coming Back to ‘The Mandalorian’? Details
Source: Disney Plus Spoiler alert: This article contains minor spoilers for the Season 3 premiere of The Mandalorian. At long last, Season 3 of The Mandalorian is here — but where the heck is Cara Dune (Gina Carano)? The third season premiere wasted no time setting up a new adventure for the galaxy’s favorite duo, …
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Tim Blake Nelson Was Just Cast In ‘Dune 2’ In Case You Thought They Were Done Making That Movie
Getty Image It’s a new year, and that means there is a whole new roster of movies to look forward to over the next 12 months, though we all know which movie everyone is most excited about: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. But the Dune sequel comes in at a close second! Maybe you thought that the …
Who Dies in ‘Dune’? What to Know About the Sci-Fi Flick
“Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee,” the official synopsis added. The upcoming epic continuation of Frank Herbert’s bestselling novel is one of the most anticipated films of 2023, and with filming now concluded, its …
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Timothée Chalamet Shared A Mysterious Photo From The Set Of ‘Dune 2’
Warner Bros./HBO Max Timothée Chalamet has been slowly but surely taking over Hollywood over the last few years. He moved on from being the pretentious love interest in Lady Bird (opposite Saoirse Ronan) to being the pretentious love interest in Little Women (opposite Saoirse Ronan and Florence Pugh) to being the pretentious candymaker in the …
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Does ‘Dune’ pass the Bechdel Test?
Science fiction films can be notoriously unaware of their female audiences, but recently things have been improving. There are many sci-fi fans who happen to be women. These fans want to see themselves represented as active characters who make an impact on the narrative — not passive bystanders who merely observe and remark on the …
The ‘Dune: Part Two’ Release Date Has Been Delayed, As If We Didn’t Wait Long Enough For The First One
Warner Bros./HBO Max More bad news! Dune: Part Two has been delayed. The second installment in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic was originally slated to come to theaters on October 20, 2013, but Variety reports that Warner Brothers has changed the date to November 17, 2023. The first Dune film was supposed to come out in …
Lea Seydoux Lands A Major Role The Increasingly Star-Stuffed Cast Of ‘Dune Part 2’
Getty Image It looks like anyone who is anyone will have a part in the upcoming Dune installment, which seems to cast new parts weekly. This time, French actress Lea Seydoux is getting her chance to shine on the infamous sand planet. It’s no surprise that Denis Villeneuve recruited Seydoux, as she has released a …
‘The Power of the Dog,’ ‘CODA,’ ‘Dune’ and more: Our predictions for the 2022 Oscars
The 94th Academy Awards take place this Sunday, March 27, and we’re buckling up for a chaotic night. There’s already a lot of drama around the event—including the Academy cutting eight categories from the live show, West Side Story‘s Rachel Zegler being invited only after fans spoke out, and an award selected via social media …
Denis Villeneuve Says Part Two Of ‘Dune’ Is Ready To Start Shooting In Late Summer And It Will Have ‘Much More Harkonnen Stuff’
Warner Bros. When Denis Villeneuve’s stab at Frank Herbert’s famously dense sci-fi classic Dune was greenlit, it was with a major caveat: They were only paying for the first half of the book. If it was a success, they’d finally let him shoot the second (and after that the five other books Herbert wrote in …
Josh Brolin Is Peeved That ‘Dune’ Got 10 Oscar Nominations But None For Director Denis Villeneuve
Warner Bros. Oscar nominations always make people mad, though this year people seem angrier than usual. The biggest controversy, at least according to Jimmy Kimmel and Kevin Smith, is over Spider-Man: No Way Home, the biggest moneymaker since the pandemic began and which was denied a Best Picture nomination. (Fans will have to make do …
What Is Spice in ‘Star Wars’? It’s Clearly a ‘Dune’ Rip-Off
A third humorously commented, “The hilarious thing about ‘spice’ in Star Wars is that it was probably originally mentioned in the movie as an offhand reference to Dune, but because everything in Star Wars has to be ~deep lore~ it’s now this whole big thing.” Oh, we don’t doubt that one bit — George Lucas …
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