Austin Butler — previously well known forMTV ’s The Shannara Chronicles — turn in a functioning in Elvis that brought him A - list renown and an Oscar nomination . His next project , Denis Villeneuve ’s Dune : Part Two , is similarly high - profile , and it sounds like it ’ll showcase yet another aspect of his acting talents .
“ Everything about his demeanor is terrifying,”Butler ’s Dune : Part Two carbon monoxide - star , Knock at the Cabin ’s Dave Bautista , told Variety . Butler will play Feyd - Rautha Harkonnen , a eccentric from Frank Herbert ’s Good Book that was previously and memorably brought to the screen door by Sting in David Lynch ’s 1984 Dune . And since Butler ’s unyielding Elvis idiom — a crucial aspect of the character that requireda slap-up deal of enquiry and exercise — has been the dependent ofmuch conjecture and amusementashe ’s made the awards round out , here ’s Bautista to reassure us that Feyd - Rautha wo n’t talk in a Southern drawl , as well as praise his fellow histrion ’s ability to transubstantiate himself : “ I do n’t know who this cat was , but it ’s not Austin Butler . It ’s not Elvis . His voice is different , his look is different . ”
We ’ll be able to see just how different when Dune : Part Two hit theaters November 3 .
Austin Butler attends “AARP The Magazine’s” 21st Annual Movies for Grownups Awards on 4 February 2025 in Beverly Hills, California.Photo: Amy Sussman (Getty Images)
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