Tag: Dune

Timothée Chalamet being the only College GameDay panelist to pick Ohio inspired great Dune jokes

LISAN AL GAIB!

Oscar-nominated actor Timothée Chalamet really does know ball after he stumped the rest of the ESPN College GameDay panel with his MAC championship game pick on Saturday.

While the rest of ESPN’s college football personalities picked Miami (Ohio) to emerge victorious, Chalamet broke down why he was riding with Ohio to win the game instead.

Well, the Bobcats made good on Chalamet’s confidence and won the MAC title convincingly with a 38-3 victory.

Chalamet also got his Arizona State and Jacksonville State picks right, but it’s the Ohio pick specifically that got fans remembering who he is: the Lisan al Gaib.

Oh yes, the Dune jokes were absolutely great for Chalamet making his prophetic Ohio pick.

Feature image courtesy of ESPN. 

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Caleb Williams refutes Paul Atreides comparisons, which is exactly what Paul Atreides would do

Caleb Williams is too humble to admit the Bears’ prophecy!

A great Chicago Bears quarterback is genuinely the last frontier there is in the NFL. It is not a happening most people could say they have witnessed in 2024. But the more time passes, the more it certainly seems like Caleb Williams — already an owner of a Bears rookie record — might be The One.

Or he might even be the Bears’ … Lisan al Gaib.

Just don’t expect Williams to admit that.

In a snippet from a new interview with NFL Network’s Kyle Brandt, Williams seemingly does everything in his power to refute comparisons to Paul Atreides from the fiction series Dune, a.k.a. the Bears’ “Lisan al Gaib,” a.k.a. the Bears’ “messiah.”

(Ahem) That’s even more reason to believe he is! Because that’s exactly what Paul Atreides would do!

Caleb Williams isn’t slick. Bears fans see and hear him, and I have a hard time thinking this interview won’t just reinforce their faith.

Let the tweets flow: Dune: Part Two takes over social media

Dune: Part Two has captivated fans on social media, making for some great jokes in the process.

The hype was all real. Dune: Part Two, Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi sequel spectacular, finally hit theaters last weekend after a multi-month delay due to entertainment industry labor disputes, and audiences stormed to the theaters like an army of holy warriors. The film brought in over $82 million in its opening weekend, putting it right on par with last summer’s Oppenheimer, a truly astonishing feat for a movie releasing in the typically-dead period of early March.

This deeply bizarre and captivating movie seems to have resonated with American audiences and those fans immediately ran to social media to do what all great Americans do when we’re deeply moved by a piece of art: turn it into little jokes for our friends.

Check out some of the very best posts to come out of America’s new favorite movie about giant worms that eat sand and poop out drugs!

A surprise casting in Dune: Part Two has fans very excited for what it means

Dune: Part Two surprise casting alert!

The upcoming release of Dune: Part Two has everyone buzzing about the return to Arrakis, and a surprise member of the cast has been revealed. 

Spoilers must flow like the spices from the dunes, so don’t keep reading unless you want to know who has joined the cast. 

Actor Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit) joined the Dune: Part Two ensemble on the red carpet in London this week ahead of its March 1 release, and Variety confirmed she is a part of the cast.

It’s possible (though not confirmed) Taylor-Joy is playing Alia Atreides, the younger sister of Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides. Alia plays a major role in the book Dune Messiah, which director Denis Villeneuve plans to adapt into a sequel film. 

Movie fans were very excited about the news of Taylor-Joy’s addition to the Dune: Part Two cast and the possibility she’ll be around for another installment in the blockbuster series.

Sand invading the Dune: Part Two red carpet in London inspired plenty of jokes

Sand is the red carpet killer.

At the London premiere of the hotly anticipated sci-fi sequel Dune: Part Two, the Arrakis-themed red carpet display, well, made a bit of a mess.

As the dunes of the planet Arrakis are understandably covered in sand in the movie (hence the sandworms), the film’s premiere featured a sandy walkway for guests to get the full Dune experience.

As Anakin Skywalker reminded us in another sci-fi sequel, sand does tend to get everywhere, and one of the dutiful workers staffing the event broke out shop vacuum to make sure the red carpet wasn’t too sandy.

It feels like a mundane bit of procedure, but it is kind of funny that the red carpet at the premiere of Dune: Part Two got sand all over it.

Some censored NSFW language to follow. 

As you can imagine, the sands of Arrakis getting all over the Dune: Part Two red carpet inspired plenty of jokes.

2022 Academy Awards: Full nominee list led by Dune, The Power of the Dog

The Power of the Dog, Dune and Being the Ricardos top this year’s heavy-hitting nominees

Nominees for the 94th Academy Awards were finally unveiled on Tuesday morning. A star-studded list of films, actors and directors was led by two very different types of blockbusters.

More than a decade after her last film, New Zealand director Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog earned 12 nominations while Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune came in second with 10 nominations.

The Best Actor and Best Actress categories are once again filled with heavy hitters like Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos), Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth), Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick…Boom!), Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos) and Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter).

Here’s a look at the full list of nominees. The Academy Awards will air on Sunday, March 27 on ABC.

Before ‘Dune’, Timothée Chalamet modded Xbox 360 controllers

Dune star Timothée Chalamet admits he used to mod Xbox 360 controllers on YouTube.

Vice hired investigative reporters to discover whether or not a YouTube channel belongs to a young Timothée Chalamet, who plays Paul Atreides in Dune.

The video shows a young boy with a raspy voice, his head obscured from the frame. He’s holding a modded Xbox 360 controller with red and black stripes across its body.

“Here’s a red tiger,” the voice says. “Started it yesterday, finished it today. It looks nice. It looks sexy.”

The voice sounds close to Chalamet’s in Law & Order, which was his first big break as an actor in 2009, just before this YouTube video was uploaded.

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Vice also compared the scar on the finger in the video to the same scar sported by the Dune actor’s ring finger, confirming a match.

Here’s the video in question:

The website also poured through old photos of Chalamet and compared details of the furniture from his childhood, noting that the chair in the video is the same as one from his boyhood Instagram photos.  According to Vice, “It is him.”

This is backed up by YouTuber Nate Hill, who interviewed Chalamet and got confirmation that the channel was his. In the same video, Dune co-star Zendaya confirms that The Sims is more her “vibe”.

An interview confirmation isn’t quite as fun as a forensic investigation, though, is it?

Timothée Chalamet is one of the hottest stars in Hollywood right now. His most recent movie, Dune, opened to $40.1 million in box office revenue in North America.

Comments are turned off on his Xbox 360 controller video, but it now has 285,232 views on YouTube.

Written by Kirk McKeand on behalf of GLHF. 

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