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“The references were from scorpions, spiders and ants. Both the Baron and Rabban have this almost ant-head-like helmet.”

Casting Stellan Skarsgård as the Baron, Dave Bautista as his malevolent nephew Rabban, dubbed “the Beast,” and David Dastmalchian as the cunning “Mentat” advisor Piter de Vries, Villeneuve and his team set out to create a bold new vision of the Harkonnen world.

Dave Bautista's casting as Baron's brutish nephew Glossu Rabban amounts to even more of a preview, which speaks to Villeneuve's implied desire to save the bulk of the desert warfare for a second movie that has yet to be officially greenlit.

But other characters — like Javier Bardem’s Freman leader, Josh Brolin’s surly weapons master, or Dave Bautista’s villainous Rabban — feel more like table setting for the sequel.

Rabban Hormizd Monastery, named after its founder, was built when Muslim armies were conquering the Middle East, and fortified over time.