While Dune Part II is still delivering at the box office and is an overall improvement on the first movie, Legendary Entertainment have decided to strike while the iron is hot and move into production with the third entry, Dune: Messiah, rounding out the trilogy as originally planned.
Deadline is reporting that director Denis Villeneuve and Legendary have lined Messaih up as the director’s next project with an option put on Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen‘s nonfiction book Nuclear War: A Scenario for it to be the director’s next movie after his final (?) trip to Arrakis.
Villeneuve had recently discussed his hopes to make one last Dune movie and his hopes that another director might take over if they decide to continue the story on the big screen.
Dune tv series, The Sisterhood, is happening and has a director in place for the first two episodes
As for Jacobsen‘s Nuclear War: A Scenario, the book ‘explores a ticking-clock scenario about what would happen in the event of a nuclear war, based on dozens of exclusive new interviews with military and civilian experts who built the weapons and have been privy to the response plans and have been responsible for those decisions should they need to be made.’
Sounds like a terrifying but all too important story to tell.
I’m a big fan of Villeneuve and while I wish his next movie would be a follow-up to his Blade Runner 2049, I look forward to both/either of these movies.
Are you excited for one more trip to the universe of Dune? Let me know…
Denis Villeneuve getting ready to return to Arrakis for Dune: Messiah… eventually
Marc
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