Case in point, Villeneuve cut one of the most vital characters from the books in "Dune: Part Two" after having him barely do ...

Dune: Part Two is largely faithful to the book, but it does make a major change by cutting out a notable character. Stephen McKinley Henderson played Thufir Hawat in the first movie and despite ...

Thufir Hawat is the mentor of Paul Atreides, a character played by Stephen McKinley Henderson in the first film that has been deleted from ‘Dune: Part 2′, although his role in the novel is ...

A character poster for Dune featuring Stephen McKinley Henderson as Thufir Hawat. Warner Bros Played by Stephen Mckinley Henderson in Dune: Part One, Thufir Hawat is nowhere to be seen in Dune ...

Thufir Hawat is a Mentat, AKA a human whose mind has been trained to have the same power as a supercomputer. Played by Stephen McKinley Henderson in Dune: Part One, he works for House Atreides and ...

In the original story, Hawat survives the deadly attack by the ... fans shouldn’t expect to see an extended director’s cut of either Dune, with Villeneuve previously expressing why he has ...

Stephen McKinley Henderson as Thufir Hawat in Dune: Part One. (Image credit: Warner Bros. Pictures) Thufir plays a small but critical role in the latter portion of the 1965 Dune novel. The ...

There was another actor who didn’t make the film: Stephen McKinley Henderson played the House Atreides Mentat Thufir Hawat in Dune: Part One. He was officially announced as among the cast when ...

Henderson starred in the original “Dune” movie as Thufir Hawat, who serves House Atreides as a “Mentat” (which is basically a human super-computer in the universe of “Dune”).