Earlier today, the first trailer the highly anticipated Dune remake was released online, and it gives us a first (official) look at former WWE Champion Dave Bautista/Batista as one of the film's main villains, Glossu Rabban Harkonnen.
Nicknamed "The Beast" by the native people of Arrakis, Rabban is the older nephew of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, and inherits his cruelty and sadism, though not his cunning. In the book, the Baron instructs him to terrorise the people of Arrakis and break their spirits, so that his favoured brother, Feyd-Rautha, would be welcomed as a hero when he took over.
This take on Rabban has pale, almost chalk white skin. It's possible that he's an albino, but the Baron is said to have a similar complexion (he's glimpsed briefly in the trailer), so perhaps this is simply how the Harkonnens will be depicted.
A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, “Dune” tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet’s exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence—a commodity capable of unlocking humanity’s greatest potential—only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
Dune is (hopefully) set to hit theatres this December.