Dune: Half Two director Denis Villeneuve‘s return to Arrakis is coming earlier than anybody — together with him — thought. The filmmaker acknowledged a number of months in the past that he deliberate to take a little bit of a break between Dune: Half Two and its supposed sequel, Dune: Messiah. Nevertheless, coming off the immense success of Dune: Half Two earlier this 12 months, which obtained rave opinions from each critics and informal moviegoers alike and earned over $700 million on the field workplace, it feels like Villeneuve has thrown his authentic trip plans out the window.
Talking with Deadline, the French Canadian filmmaker revealed that he’s going to go “again behind the digital camera sooner” than he thought he would and that his “break” from Frank Herbert’s Dune world is already over. “I’m within the writing zone proper now,” he mentioned, referencing the script for Dune: Messiah. Villeneuve didn’t verify the precise timeline he now has in thoughts for the sequel, however he did notice that he’s doubtless going to make Messiah a lot sooner than he initially deliberate.
“Let’s say that I believed that after Half Two that I’ll take a break, that I’ll return within the woods and keep within the woods for some time to recuperate. However the woods weren’t actually suiting me, and I’d return behind the digital camera sooner than I believe,” Villeneuve defined. “That’s all I can say.”
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The director didn’t reveal throughout his dialog with Deadline when he intends to really begin filming Dune: Messiah. “These motion pictures take lots of time to be made, so it’s finest to not say out loud after I would possibly shoot,” he famous. He did, nevertheless, reportedly react to a possible 2026 begin date with a “perplexed” expression. Whether or not meaning he intends to shoot the movie earlier than 2026 or sooner or later in that 12 months stays to be seen. Earlier this 12 months, Warner Bros. did, notably, set a Dec. 18, 2026 launch date for Villeneuve’s subsequent “occasion movie.” Assuming that undertaking is certainly Dune: Messiah, Villeneuve must begin capturing it a lot sooner than 2026 to fulfill that date.
The filmmaker did verify that almost all of Dune: Half Two‘s core solid members will return in Dune: Messiah, together with Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, and Florence Pugh. Anya Taylor-Pleasure can even seem within the sequel after making a short cameo as an grownup model of Paul Atreides’ sister Alia in Dune: Half Two. The director went on to comment that Dune: Messiah, which he says will “end the Paul Atreides arc,” will likely be “utterly totally different” from its two predecessors.
“The story takes place like 12 years after the place we left the characters on the finish of Half Two,” he teased. “Their journey, their story is totally different this time, and that’s why I all the time say that whereas it’s the identical world it’s a brand new movie with new circumstances.”
Dune: Messiah doesn’t but have an official launch date. Each Dune: Half One and Half Two can be found to stream now on Max.
