Denis Villeneuve Says ‘Dune 3’ Will Be His Last ‘Dune’ Entry: “It’s Not Like A Trilogy”
deadline.comDenis Villeneuve is ready to leave the Dune universe and says the franchise’s third installment will be the last with him at the helm.
The filmmaker also clarified that Dune 3 is not like a trilogy. “It’s important that people understand that for me, it was really a diptych.
It was really a pair of movies that will be the adaptation of the first book. That’s done and that’s finished,” Villeneuve said in an interview with Vanity Fair. “If I do a third one, which is in the writing process, it’s not like a trilogy.
It’s strange to say that, but if I go back there, it’s to do something that feels different and has its own identity.” Dune Messiah is set 12 years after the first Dune book, so the film adaptation would need to age up its cast, including Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya. “That’s my problem.
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