{"id":45924,"date":"2019-01-30T22:20:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T03:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=45924"},"modified":"2019-01-30T22:22:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T03:22:34","slug":"zendaya-dune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/30\/zendaya-dune\/","title":{"rendered":"Zendaya In Talks For DUNE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/zendaya.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/zendaya.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45925\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems as if the casting for director Denis Villeneuve&#8217;s <strong>Dune<\/strong> has shifted into high gear. Yesterday we had news that Oscar Isaac was in talks to join the film as Duke Leto Atreides, the father of the story&#8217;s hero Paul. And now we are finding out who will be playing the hero&#8217;s love interest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spider-Man: Homecoming<\/strong> actress Zendaya is currently in talks to play Chani, a warrior member of the Freman tribe on the desert planet Arakis who shelter Paul and his mother when they flee from the soldiers of a rival Royal House.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Call Me By Your Name<\/strong> star Tomthee Chalamet will be playing Paul Atreides, the young man who discovers that he may be a prophesized leader of the Freman. Rebecca Ferguson is set to play Lady Jessica, Paul\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the cast so far includes Charlotte Rampling as the scheming Reverand Mother Mohaim, Stellan Skarsgard as the evil Baron Harkonnen and Dave Bautista as the Baron&#8217;s sadistic nephew Rabban.<\/p>\n<p>However the film turns out, I have to at least compliment Villeneuve and his casting director on landing actors who just seem perfect for each role they have been cast in. With each new announcement, before I even see whom they are playing, I have guessed accurately what character from Frank Herbert&#8217;s sprawling science fiction epic they would be portraying. If nothing else, this film will not fail from having the wrong actors.<\/p>\n<p>No date for the start of production of <strong>Dune<\/strong> has been announced, but it can&#8217;t be too far off with the way casting announcements have been coming out, it should probably be soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The upcoming adaptation of the Frank Herbert classic is in the midst of casting another key role.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/30\/zendaya-dune\/\" title=\"Zendaya In Talks For DUNE\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2764,8202],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-dune","8":"tag-zendaya"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45924"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=45924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}