Dune: Part Three Photos Reveal Pattinson’s Scytale, Alia

Robert Pattinson looks almost like someone else. Anya Taylor‑Joy looks almost like a saint. New images released by Vogue throw the final chapter of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune trilogy into sharper, stranger relief.

What we’re seeing are two faces that promise to complicate Paul Atreides’s reign. The film, adapted from Frank Herbert’s Dune Messiah, picks up nearly two decades after Paul seized the imperial throne and unleashed a galaxy‑spanning holy war. Old allies return. New threats emerge. Betrayal waits in the shadows. And now, thanks to these photos, two figures who will shape that fallout are suddenly impossible to ignore.

Pattinson’s Scytale is startling: pallid skin, cropped white hair and a thin dark tube running from cheek to upper lip — a prosthetic touch that reads less like simple makeup and more like a manufactured identity. He wears a light‑brown vest over darker layers and stands under harsh light that makes him feel both desert‑worn and laboratory‑bred. In the book, the Tleilaxu face dancers are masters of disguise and deception; the images underline that unpredictability. Pattinson has said he wanted Scytale to look unmistakably other — a design choice that Villeneuve initially debated before sending concept art to the actor. The end result suggests a character grown in a lab of secrets and duplicity.

Then there’s Anya Taylor‑Joy’s Alia. Calm. Cloaked in white with a hood that frames her like a relic. Behind her, turquoise motifs give the photo an almost sacred stillness — a visual contradiction to Alia’s dangerous, volatile nature. Viewers met Alia briefly as a dream in Part Two; here she arrives in full. Born with consciousness and the layered memories of the Bene Gesserit’s predecessors, Alia is a walking archive and a walking threat. Taylor‑Joy has called the role both blessing and curse; Timothée Chalamet teased that her turn will be genuinely terrifying. A previous poster even showed her bloodied and screaming close to the frame — a hint at what’s to come.

These portraits arrive alongside news the film keeps much of the creative backbone from the first two installments. Jacqueline West returns to costume design. Hans Zimmer is back scoring. Linus Sandgren takes over cinematography duties from Greig Fraser. And the principal cast reprises their roles: Timothée Chalamet’s Paul, Zendaya’s Chani, Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan, and Javier Bardem’s Stilgar. Jason Momoa is listed as a new addition, playing Hayt — a character inspired by Duncan Idaho.

The film arrives December 18, 2026, in theaters and IMAX. That release date collides with Avengers: Doomsday, a scheduling face‑off fans have cheekily dubbed “Dunesday.”

Images and interviews suggest Villeneuve is leaning into both the political coldness and mythic violence of Herbert’s saga. Will the trilogy’s finale answer the questions the middle chapter raised, or leave audiences arguing over what loyalty and identity really mean? Either way, the next trailer can’t come soon enough.