Denis Villeneuve has been clear that his imaginative and prescient for adapting Frank Herbert’s Dune collection for the massive display entails three films: Dune and Dune: Half Two, each tailored from Herbert’s unique traditional novel and a 3rd movie, Dune Messiah, primarily based on Herbert’s 1969 sequel of the identical title.
Herbert wrote 4 extra Dune novels in his lifetime, however Villeneuve made it clear this week in an interview with Time that “Dune Messiah ought to be the final Dune film for me.”
Final yr, when the second movie was coming collectively, Villeneuve advised Empire, “If I achieve making a trilogy, that might be the dream.” It appears he intends to be good to his phrase.
Villeneuve stated that the third half would wrap up the franchise. After the primary guide sequel, he stated, the opposite novels “turn out to be extra… esoteric.”
Not that that might cease Warner Bros. ought to the studio need to keep it up with the franchise. There usually are not solely Herbert’s different six books, however one other fourteen tomes written by the creator’s son, Brian, and Kevin J. Anderson. They comprise three trilogies of prequels, a pair of novels supposed to wrap up the storylines from Herbert’s unique six books and quite a lot of interstitial novels. That’s definitely extra supply materials than Amazon had when it spent $250 million to accumulate the TV rights to The Lord of the Rings.
