The Dominicus has move up and set , the earth has ferment , which intend that it ’s clock time for another monolithic collaboration for one of the big pop cultural behemoths on the planet — Star Wars , and Marvelcanon continuity destroyerand asurprisingly good fomite for Batman — Fortnite . This time it ’s Dune , and while that ’s not uncanny anymore , a cheekbone - less Timothée Chalamet certainly is .
Director Denis Villeneuve is n’t offering audiences a probability to view a clip or some of his past film within the struggle royale secret plan like his fellow directorsChris NolanandJ.J. Abrams — I think his headwould possibly explode — insteadEpic Gameshas recruited Chalamet and Zendaya , or at least their likenesses , to raise new pelt for Paul and Chani useable in the game . Gamers will be able-bodied to buy themselves the alternative skins , as well as accessories recreating Paul ’s knives and Chani ’s Fremen Maker Hooks , backpacks inspired by the Fremkits in the picture show , a sailplane based on the Ornithopter , and , hilariously , an emote that produce your character walk like they ’re trying to quash disturb a sandworm :
Anyway , it ’s not that Dune is coming to Fortnite that ’s the distressful thing here . Fortnite is perfectly fun for the trillion of hoi polloi who play it , and that audience groundwork means that a movie tie - in is kind of likea billet of Funko popsor uncanny advertizement where people playing immortal divine beings shill automobile : it ’s to be expected . What ’s not to be expected is how Fortnite ’s cartoony art style — its blessing that deal to cohesively put Rey Skywalker , Deadpool , Lara Croft , Ripley from Aliens , and a banana tree in a tuxedoall in the same gameso Superman can shoot them with a gun — has given us perhaps the most cursed visual to hail from Dune yet : Smooth Chalamet .
Who is this man and what has he done with Paul Atreides?Image: Epic Games
Reader , it vex me . Everything we ’ve seen of Paul ’s gaunt behaviour in the new Dune is gone here , and Chalamet ’s unique font has been file down into that Fortnite style . A great affair was lose in the trip from Arrakis to Fortnite ’s trigger-happy island , and for that , we must mourn . Or at the very least make Smooth Chalamet do the Floss .
The Dune cosmetic for Fortnite are uncommitted in - game starting today .
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