Christopher Walken Is the Emperor of the Universe in ‘Dune 2’ — But He Wants to Play ‘A Normal Guy’

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1. He’s almost too iconic to play a normal guy

2. This is a spoiler post he is not in the previews……..idiot (with napoleon dynamite edge)

3. Why tf would you spoil this..

4. lol this is not a spoiler are you nuts?

5. Not a spoiler. He’s been in a ton of the marketing material

6. Absolutely spoiled this for me. I don’t watch trailers.

7. Loved the movie but this was terrible casting

8. I mean, he was pretty normal in Joe Dirt too

   *I’ll stab you in the face with a soldering iron.*

9. Spoiler comment:

   As someone who hasn’t read the books it felt very weird that this “great Emperor” looks weak and is so easily tricked. If he doesn’t do anything cool or say anything cool it’s waste of Christopher Walken!

10. He was a good emperor, I thought. His cowardly betrayals of those who counted themselves loyal actually bit him in the ass. He knew his gambit was his own undoing – the prospect of losing all the spice for good was as bad as death. So, his demeanor was of no enthusiasm for those reasons. He was also to be the last Carrino having no male heirs and his queen no longer living, at his ‘advanced’ age since the spice supposedly allowed him to live 200 years.

11. I watches communion last night. She was crazy for its time

12. Man’s got style and light on his feet. He’s just COOL.

13. Might be an unpopular opinion but he wasn’t well cast in Dune 2.

    We need to be immersed into this world. But Christopher Walken looked and sounded like *Christopher Walken* , not a futuristic space Emperor. He’s too famous, too recognisable, and is given too little screen time to develop the character or convince us of the role.