Denis Villeneuve Will Only Make Three ‘Dune’ Films, Despite There Being Six Books

Denis Villeneuve recognizes his restrictions. The supervisor will not exceed three Dune films, he informed Time today, despite there being six films.

“Dune Messiah should be the last Dune movie for me,” Villeneuve stated. The supervisor, presently on the cusp of the launch of Dune: Sequel, stated his adjustment of the Frank Herbert stories are substantiated of a life time of fandom.

“I was trying to be, as a filmmaker, as invisible as possible,” he stated of the very first Dune movie, launched 2021.“I tried my best to keep the poetry of the book, the atmosphere, the colors, the smell, everything that I felt when I read the book. I tried.”

Dune: Sequel choices up where the very first one ended– Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) ultimately gets to Chani (Zendaya) and signs up with pressures with the Fremen to lower the wicked Harkonnens. Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgard and Dave Bautista likewise return for the follow up. Initially arranged to launch in 2023, the movie was pressed to March in the middle of the stars strike.

In the meanwhile, Villeneuve claims he has actually worked with the manuscript for Dune Messiah, which will adjust the secondly of Herbert’s six Dune stories (however has actually not yet been formally greenlit).

“If I succeed in making a trilogy, that would be the dream,” Villeneuve informed Realm Publication in August.“Dune Messiah was written in reaction to the fact that people perceived Paul Atreides as a hero, which is not what [Herbert] wanted to do. My adaptation [of Dune] is closer to his idea that it’s actually a warning.”

Afterwards, he would love to bid farewell to the franchise business, a selection inspired by his evasion of a Hollywood extremely assisted by cash.

“Cinema, since its beginning, has had multiple crises,” he informed Time. “There’s always an adjustment, but the river still keeps flowing. The theatrical experience is here for good. It will prevail, it will transform.”