The Fire Behind The Film: ‘Dune: Part Two’
deadline.comWhen movies come out, we grade them with reviews, define them by box office returns or eyeballs on streaming services, and maybe trophies down the line.
But every successful, ambitious film starts with a dream, followed by compromise and adversity. Deadline offers the occasional peek into the creative aspirations, and the sweat and blood that propels ambitious films. The Movie Dune: Part Two When one looks at properties that invite the visual and storytelling worldbuilding that every great filmmaker desires, there isn’t much around that rises to the occasion of films like Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings or any number of films made by Ridley Scott, George Miller and James Cameron.
With rapturous reviews and every expectation that it will outpace opening weekend projections for Dune: Part II that approach $80 million, the Dune franchise will be on that list shortly.
Once turned into a David Lynch adaptation that fell short, Denis Villenueve’s ambition in Part Two is as big as the film’s giant sandworms that haunt the ships ravaging the desert-covered planet Arrakis.
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