‘Dune: Part Two’: Read The Screenplay By Denis Villeneuve & Jon Spaihts Where Things Get Spicy On Arrakis
deadline.comDeadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures‘ Dune: Part Two, the anticipated follow-up to 2021’s six-time Oscar-winning Dune.
Denis Villeneuve directed from a screenplay he and Jon Spaihts wrote based on Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi novel. The first film’s writing team of Spaihts, Villeneuve and Eric Roth were nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, making expectations high for sequel, which has delivered, grossing $714 million worldwide since its global release in March.
Set thousands of years in the future and picking up where Dune left off, Dune: Part Two again follows the mythic journey of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), a young man propelled by fate into an intergalactic power struggle.
Paul was given the ultimate test after the murder of his father, Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac), in Dune: to conquer his fears when fate — and powerful unseen forces — pull him into the sands of the remote planet Arrakis.
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