Dune: Part Two is slightly over a month away, and followers are nonetheless hoping there’s extra movies to come back. Director Denis Villeneuve’s been fairly about his wishes to adapt the guide’s quick sequel, Dune Messiah. And whereas these plans haven’t modified, it appears like he’ll step again from the collection earlier than giving that one a correct go.
In a latest interview with Vanity Fair, Villeneuve talked about eager to “quiet down slightly bit” after Half Two. The primary two Dune movies had been made back-to-back, and the crew “didn’t have a second to relaxation.” By the point of the 2022 Oscars, his producer (and spouse) Tanya Lapointe had been in pre-production on Half Two, a pointy distinction to different administrators the morning after the ceremony who had been speaking about how they’d spend their downtime. Understandably, the filmmaking couple want to have an actual break of their very own and put a ways between them and Arrakis.
Dangerous information, then, that Dune: Half Two will finish on a cliffhanger, in response to the director. Just like the 1965 novel, the sequel will shut out “with the start of one thing that’s uncontrolled,” which he was all in favor of. Assured of how Half Two sticks the touchdown, Villeneuve confirmed his eventual adaptation of 1969’s Dune Messiah could have a 12-year timeskip. Messiah’s script is at present being labored on, and as self-professed fan of Frank Herbert’s books, he’s excited to achieve “the tip of the arc of Paul Atreides.”
Naturally, Villeneuve needs an eventual Messiah movie to be higher than Half Two, and in addition for it to be “completely different” than its predecessors. A break would assist make sure that, he stated, as prevents him from “[falling] right into a vocabulary that has been predefined by the primary two films.” He’d be recreation to make one thing else within the interim, nevertheless it’s not a comfortable affirmation of something specifically—simply an acknowledgment that it’d be wholesome to step again from the franchise machine.
Dune: Half Two releases in theaters on March 1.
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