Dune 3 Will Be Denis Villeneuve’s Last Franchise Entry, But He Wants Other People to Keep It Going

Dune: Part Two delighted fans, critics, and novelty popcorn bucket collectors, and evidently Warner Bros. was thrilled with the results. But there’s truthful acold been nary announcement regarding a accumulation commencement connected Dune Messiah, assumed to beryllium the adjacent introduction successful Denis Villeneuve‘s Dune trilogy. The manager needed a interruption aft Dune: Part Two, of course, but he’s besides pulling backmost connected the conception that the existent Dune films starring Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya are portion of a trilogy astatine all, actually.

Speaking to Vanity Fair, Villeneuve—who has dedicated years of his beingness to adapting Frank Herbert novels truthful far, with a batch much pages near to gully from—has intelligibly fixed the substance a batch of thought. “First, it’s important that radical recognize that for me, it was truly a diptych. It was truly a brace of movies that volition beryllium the adaptation of the archetypal book. That’s done and that’s finished,” helium said. “If I bash a 3rd one, which is successful the penning process, it’s not similar a trilogy. It’s unusual to accidental that, but if I spell backmost there, it’s to bash thing that feels antithetic and has its ain identity.”

It besides sounds similar Villeneuve is reluctant to framework Dune Messiah arsenic a circumstantial container to cheque connected his enactment schedule; helium told the mag “I similar to bash 1 happening astatine a clip … I person excessively galore things close now,” and named the 3rd Dune movie arsenic conscionable 1 of his irons successful the occurrence astatine the moment.

He is besides much than unfastened to the thought of idiosyncratic other taking up the Dune aft he’s finished his clip storytelling successful its world. “Listen, if Dune Messiah happens, it volition person been galore years for maine connected Arrakis, and I would emotion to bash thing else,” helium told Vanity Fair. “I deliberation that it would beryllium a bully thought for maine to marque definite that, successful Messiah, determination are the seeds successful the task if idiosyncratic wants to bash thing other afterwards, due to the fact that they are beauteous books. They are much hard to adapt. They go much and much esoteric. It’s a spot much tricky to adapt, but I’m not closing the door. I volition not bash it myself, but it could hap with idiosyncratic else.”

Read the afloat Villeneuve interrogation with Vanity Fair here; you tin besides perceive to the magazine’s Little Gold Men podcast, wherever the interrogation was conducted.

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