Robert Pattinson may give Timothée Chalamet a hard time in Legendary’s upcoming Dune: Messiah. Sources say the actor has been circling the role of the chief villain in the film, one that is possibly Scytale from Frank Herbert’s books.

Based on speculation, he's going to try.The scuttlebutt is that Robert Pattinson is the leader in the clubhouse to play the villain in the third "Dune" movie.Though nothing is official, Villenueve has shown that he can clearly get name actors for these movies,

In Dune 3: Messiah, Robert Pattinson’s Scytale is a Tleilaxu Face Dancer. The Face Dancers were first established in the HBO prequel series Dune: Prophecy as a shapeshifting race, created by the Bene Tleilax.