Because the success of final yr’s Dune, Denis Villeneuve has been busy getting ready to make the follow-up, adapting the second half of Frank Herbert’s ebook. He is been including some incredible forged, and Swiss actor Souheila Yacoub will be part of them.

Yacoub, who has appeared in motion pictures comparable to Gaspar Noé’s Climax and Anaïs Volpé’s The Braves, has (in response to Deadline, at the least), scored the position of Shishakli.

If the character retains to the ebook’s description, she’ll be a Fremen from Sietch Tabr who helps Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) throughout his sandrider trial, studying the harness the large sandworms that roam beneath the floor of desert planet Arrakis.

She joins the returning Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Stellan Skarsgård and Josh Brolin plus fellow new recruits Florence Pugh, Léa Seydoux and Austin Butler.

Dune: Half Two, written by Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, is beginning its major shoot quickly and shall be in cinemas on 17 November subsequent yr.