Dune 2 director says cutting one character from the sequel was the "most painful choice"
Stephen McKinley Henderson's Thufir Hawat is missing from the seq💜uel

Like all page-to-screen adaptations, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dune: Part Two makes a few changes from the novel it's based on. For director Denis V♔illeneuve, though, one change in particular was the most difficult to enact: the omission of Thufir Hawat.
🦹"One of the most painful choices for me on this one was Thufir Hawat," Villeneuve told . "He's a character I absolutely love, but I💃 decided right at the beginning that I was making a Bene Gesserit adaptation. That meant that Mentats are not as present as they should be, but it's the nature of the adaptation."
Thufir Hawat is a Mentat, AKA a human whose mind has been trained to have the same power as a supercomputer. Played by Stephen McKinley Henderson in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dune: Part One, he works for House Atreides and is a mentor for Paul (Timothée Chalamet), but was blackmailed into working for House Harkonnen after they orchestrated the murder of Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac) – Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård) poisons him and will o🌟nly administer doses of the antidote if he complies.
In Frank Herbert's ꦏnovel, Hawat stays loyal to the Atreides and secretly works against the Harkonnens, giving the B𓆉aron false information and attempting to take him down from within.
Instead, Villeneuve's "Bene Gesserit ad🍎aptation" focuses on the all-female group with clairvoyant abilities who orchestrates Paul's rise to power as the Lisan al Gaib. Their members include⛄ Paul's mother Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) and new character Lady Margot (Léa Seydoux).
Dune: Part Two is out now in cinemas. For more, check out the rest of our coverage on 🃏the movie:
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