This article contains likely spoilers forDune: Part Threeas well as the booksDune MessiahandChildren of Dune.
You are not prepared for what is to come.
These are the words of promise, or prophecy, inAnya Taylor-Joys lone sceneinDune: Part Two.
Paul, you are not prepared for what is to come, Alia warns.
Youll now learn the truth about our family, and it will hurt you to the core.
Alia is not unkind in her warning.
But what that pain might be is left open to interpretation.
What have we done?!
gasps the old Fremen reverend mother when she realizes Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) is pregnant.
So what will that relationship be and what will it mean forDune: Part Three?
One perceptive character describes her to Paul as the virgin-harlot.
Honestly, Herbert seems unsure of exactly what to do with Alia in the second novel.
Yet while Pauls purpose is fulfilled by the end ofDune Messiah, Alias is not.
She does not succeed.
In fact, they and the power of the throne she inherits by way of regency corrupt Alia thoroughly.
She initially resists the Barons influence before succumbing and even imitating his murderous bedroom appetites.
To Adapt Children of Dunes Alia or to Ignore Her?
After all, she is the VVitch.
… And yet, we suspect that Villeneuve might be better served by ignoring Herberts journey for Alia altogether.
He even went on to say he wanted his movie to be an adaptation about the Bene Gesserit.
I want the Bene Gesserit to be at the center of the epicenter of this adaptation.
Perhaps that could include Alia being corrupted by the soul of a lecherous man… but perhaps not.
After all, shes depicted by an ocean that never will exist on Arrakis in her or Pauls lifetimes.
This is not to say she may not be corrupted by the power the Atreides wield.
But there are other ways to explore that than the ghost of a grandfather taking hold.
