Having enraptured common tradition in 2021, Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi masterpiece Dune will return subsequent yr with a sequel, with publicity on the brand new film selecting up momentum.
The primary phrase of the sequel in fairly a while comes from actor Javier Bardem, who will seem within the sequel with lead stars Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson and Zendaya. “I’ve learn the brand new draft,” he acknowledged in a current occasion on the Cannes Movie Pageant, including, “And I feel they’ve completed a tremendous job of placing collectively the items in a method that’s going to shock individuals”.
Persevering with, Bardem provides, “They received’t be shocked [by what happens], clearly, as a result of they’ve learn the ebook, however they’ll be shocked by the best way they put it collectively. I used to be very moved by it. It’s a film that’s full, and you may really feel the load of it, and on the similar time [you can enjoy] the spectacularity of it”.
With the sequel movie now in pre-production, in dialog with The Hollywood Reporter director Denis Villeneuve revealed: “If issues go nicely with Half Two, I may foresee the concept of perhaps doing a 3rd film, Dune Messiah…That will make sense to me”. Set 12 years after the unique Dune story, Dune Messiah follows Paul Atreides (Chalamet) wrestle with the intersection of faith and forms while specializing in the duties of his household.
Discussing the potential third movie within the proposed trilogy, Villeneuve added, “Frank Herbert wrote Dune as a warning in direction of these messianic figures, these chosen ones, these saviour figures…It’s about how harmful these sorts of figures might be. It’s a criticism of the messianic determine”.
We’ll have to attend slightly longer earlier than Dune: Half Two with the movie aiming to be launched in October 2023.
