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Dune II generates an all-in intensity for an all-in movie spectacle

Creative team fully invested in what many expect to be 2024’s first blockbuster
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This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows a scene from “Dune: Part Two.” (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

Timothée Chalamet and Austin Butler were really looking forward to their fight.

The actors had been training, separately, with a Kali instructor in Los Angeles to prepare for the climactic showdown between Paul Atreides and Feyd Rautha in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two. ” When they finally met in Budapest, they weren’t even technically supposed to do a run through.

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