re: So I’m Just Back From Seeing “Dune II” & IMO, It Was Phenomenal Piece of Hollywood Magic..

First of all Zendaya is barely a minority. You’re acting like they cast Leslie Jones. The Fremen are clearly middle eastern inspired so she’s right on the nose ethnicity.

I agree she wasn’t that great, but I think that’s relative to how great Chalamet and Bardem and Butler were. Overall her increased role served a purpose of highlighting what Paul was giving up when he embraced his role as messiah, and the moral ambiguity that entailed.

Villeneuve has said he sees Paul’s story as a Michael Corleone analogue, and so it makes sense to focus on that aspect.

Tl;dr - As much as Hollywood is often focused on wokeness at the expense of quality, if you see that here you’re officially too ate up by it.