Denis Villeneuve Is Making Dune 3 Subsequent As a result of You Need It

The unique plan was for director Denis Villeneuve to take a break from Dune. Because the filmmaker started to place the ending touches on 2024’s Dune: Half Two, he appeared fairly insistent that whereas he wished to proceed, and conclude, the story of Paul Atredies in Dune Messiah, he would want to take a break first. However, finally, these emotions modified and now it appears seemingly Villeneuve goes to make three Dune films in a row.

What modified? Effectively, in a brand new interview, Villeneuve says it’s due to you. Sure, you. The particular person studying this. The one who, we’re inferring, is a fan of Dune: Half Two. “I used to be actually moved by the way in which Half Two was acquired by cinephiles around the globe, and I felt an urge for food and a want to see extra and a duty to complete that story,” Villeneuve mentioned in an interview with Collider. You see? Fandom generally is a good factor.

That story, in line with the writer-director, is at the moment very targeted on the character we see final in Dune: Half Two, Chani, performed by Zendaya. “Chani’s coronary heart is damaged, and it’s the start of the Holy Struggle and that’s the place we left, so in a manner, I’d say it’s fairly related,” he mentioned. “I used to be anticipating to do one thing else earlier than, however frankly, that’s the inspiration that got here to my thoughts as I took a break this summer time and was going again and ending the story.”

Villeneuve has been chipping away on the script for Messiah, primarily based on Frank Herbert’s 1969 follow-up to Dune, for years. He’s spoken time and time once more about engaged on it, his concepts for it, and when he’s going to make it. However it wasn’t till lately, when Warner Bros. set a launch date for an untitled Villeneuve occasion movie on December 18, 2026, that rumblings began about it being one other Dune. And now it definitely looks as if will probably be. All because of the followers who confirmed up for Dune: Half Two, turned it into an enormous hit, and championed all of it the way in which to the Academy Awards.

In Dune Messiah (which, sure Timothée Chalamet, has been out for over 50 years and isn’t actually a spoiler), we observe Paul after his choice to marry Princess Irulan and rule the galaxy. He’s joined by a clone of Jason Momoa’s Duncan Idaho and, properly, issues get correct bizarre. All of which we might even see in December 2026.

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