'Dune': Timothee Chalamet and Oscar Isaac spotted in Abu Dhabi desert in new trailer

Judging by a newly released trailer, we're set for a wild ride in the upcoming action-adventure film Dune - and it's really a journey that will take viewers across a few of the UAE and Jordan's most striking landscapes.

The sci-fi epic, which is set going to cinemas in December, stars Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa and Oscar Isaac in the big-screen remake of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel.

A number of the scenes for the high-octane fantasy were filmed in the Abu Dhabi desert and Jordan's Wadi Rum, both of which is often glimpsed in the brand new clip.

Dune is defined on Arrakis, an inhospitable fictional planet that's home to the galaxy's most prized resource, a life-extending drug named "spice". The film revolves around a royal, Paul Atreides (Chalamet), who not merely must battle hostile native creatures to mine spice, but also uphold his family's stewardship of the land against other interstellar noble houses.

The UAE forms an integral backdrop of Arrakis, using its rolling sand dunes providing an eerily arid landscape.

Little Women actor Chalamet, and Star Wars' Isaac, who portrays Duke Leto Atreides, could be spied touching down in the desert, as the former can even be spotted running over the sands later in the trailer.

Arrakis is dominated by imposing creatures called sandworms, among which appears in search of Chalamet's character.

“Fear may be the mind killer,” the Oscar-nominated actor says in a voiceover. “Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I'll face my fear and I'll permit it to pass over me. When the fear is gone, you will have nothing - only I will remain.”

The upcoming blockbuster, directed by Denis Villeneuve, also stars Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgard and Rebecca Ferguson.

Isaac and Ferguson undertake the roles of Atreides's parents, while Skarsgard portrays the top of House Harkonnen, the longstanding enemy of House Atreides.

Zendaya plays a Fremen woman, one of the native inhabitants of Arrakis, while Momoa and Brolin undertake the roles of elite warriors who help train up the young Atreides. Dave Bautista, Charlotte Rampling and Javier Bardem round out the star-studded cast.

Regional shooting occurred in Wadi Rum - which includes also featured in The Martian, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and Aladdin - in the summertime of 2019, then moved to the desert outside Abu Dhabi.

“It had been really surreal,” Chalamet, 24, told Variety earlier this season of shooting a scene at dawn in the south of Jordan. “There are these Goliath landscapes, which you might imagine existing on planets in our universe, but not on the planet.”

The film, helmed by Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 filmmaker Villeneuve, is the second silver-screen adaption of the Hugo Award-winning novel, following David Lynch’s much-criticised 1984 take.

Dune is set to be released on Friday, December 18.